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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 7, 2005
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: New help for SchindlersJust checking; When youire losing money, why scrimp on marketing?Top honorsFederal appointmentA mysteryBuilding boom

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 21, 2023
Longstanding family-run insurance firm promotes third-generation leader to CEO

Austin Boyd has been with the company since 2013.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 21, 2004
Free Press (Sara/Mana edition)

This week's items: Buchanan Automotive Group shows growth in Automotive News rankingsRoofing contractor wins Firestone Inner Circle of Quality AwardGallery for Metropolitan Sarasota Bay opened at 1150 Ritz Carlton Drive

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 30, 2004
Profit on a Hot-tile Roof

Jesse Lynn, president of Circle L Roofing Inc., found a niche in the roofing industry that has made the company one of the top players.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 16, 2024
Legendary Fort Myers Beach restaurant property sells for $3.65M

In the week's top commercial real estate news, an Estero Ford dealership grows its service department and an investor borrows $82 million to buy a pair of Lutz apartment communities and a local construction company buys a Sarasota warehouse and office space.

  • Florida
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 4, 2013
China by Internet

Can you build a product in China without ever setting foot there? Just ask entrepreneur Simon Morris.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 10, 2014
Chris Laney, 27

Director of Client Experience, boostDFM

  • Class of 2014
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 18, 2022
Boston hospitality company shuttering Tampa hotel and laying off all employees

The company will close the Westshore district hotel near Tampa International Airport on Dec. 19, six days before Christmas.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 15, 2021
Nashville firm buys Swan Lake apartments

Covenant Capital Group focuses on acquisitions with upside potential from renovations.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 4, 2020
Pinellas apartments sell for $120 million

St. Petersburg, Largo apartment complex sales demonstrate that demand for multifamily rentals in the county remains strong, despite the coronavirus pandemic.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 9, 2019
Rainier buys Woodlands Square for $64 million

A Dallas-based investment firm has spent $64 million to acquire the Woodlands Square Shopping Center in Oldsmar in the wake of a multimillion renovation.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 26, 2015
Scientists face 20 years in prison

Mahmoud Aldissi and Anastassia Bogomolova were found guilty of wire fraud, identity theft and falsifying records.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 16, 2011
Neal Communities in Top 100

Neal ranked 94th in total closings in 2010, according to Builder Magazine.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 30, 2012
Fort Myers home market back on top

Remember the real estate boom when the Cape Coral-Fort Myers area consistently ranked at the top for home-price appreciation?

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 19, 2017
Tampa growth, Gulf Coast communities leading the nation

Tampa ranked in the Top Five in the U.S. last year for metro area population growth, according to U.S. Census figures contained in Eshenbaugh Land Co.'s first quarter newsletter to clients. In all, the city grew by 58,000 residents.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • January 23, 2015
Curing cancer

After 19 years of building up its biotechnology company to provide cancer therapies, Morphogenesis is on the verge of a big market entrance.

  • Strategies
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • January 22, 2016
Corporate report

Boat club opens new location; Community makes top 50 list; Port Manatee fuels up contracts; New hires at economic agency; Document firm heads south

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 16, 2018
Air in There

The so-called good problem of too much growth, too fast, was a real-life crisis for a Southwest Florida company. The solution requires discipline — and tough choices.

  • Strategies
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 7, 2024
$548 million hospital to open in Manatee County

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Miami developer borrows $65 million to build Fort Myers apartments, and a retail building in an artsy Sarasota neighborhood is for sale.

  • Florida
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • December 30, 2016
Revenge of the suburbs

Apartment sales dominated commercial real estate transactions along the Gulf Coast in 2016 as investors scrambled to capitalize on the region's rising rental rates and job and population growth.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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