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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 12, 2006
Little Big Town

The town known for tomatoes is getting a juicy makeover, courtesy of a low-key development firm. The project is anything but low key.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 31, 2003
Shedding Golden Handcuffs (Tampa)

Business litigator Peter Cardillo has split from Buchanan Ingersoll, where he built a lucrative practice representing real estate companies and condominium associations.

  • Law
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 10, 2012
Digital docs

A California private equity firm backed its belief in a Gulf Coast medical software firm with nearly $350 million — no small risk considering the hyper-competitive industry.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 30, 2012
Fruit Fantastic

Lettuce and oranges are a world away from cell phone towers, where Steve Clark first found large-scale business success. The produce industry, though, is Clark's next frontier. He's backed it with more than $2 million.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 10, 2025
Trust firm passes 50 employees, $2B in assets on its way to more growth

Even as the pace of growth has increased at Caldwell Trust Co., its leader stands by a core value to grow the right way.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • July 6, 2018
Icon Residential has one audacious goal

Icon Residential is growing fast thanks to hot selling townhome projects in Tampa, Orlando, St. Petersburg, Sarasota and Atlanta, and hopes to generate $150 million in sales in 2019.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 14, 2021
Iconic restaurant chain’s co-founder serves up key lessons

Chris Sullivan's core leadership principles, even after nearly 30 years, hold up well to today’s environment.

  • Leadership
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 9, 2025
Taylor Penny, 29

40 Under 40 winner Taylor Penny is land development project manager at Homes by WestBay.

  • Class of 2025
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 17, 2022
Insurance executive buys downtown Bradenton property

Steve Herrig of Sunz Insurance paid $2.35 million for three lots.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 23, 2022
Sarasota manufacturing giant announces net-zero emissions goal

Helios expects to achieve the task of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 16, 2004
Break Up

Zirkelbach Construction and Frye General Contracting split up after only months together.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 12, 2012
WCI raises $175M

Homebuilder, in third year of comeback, will use some of the money for growth.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 4, 2019
Area shipping company adds two newly built vessels to fleet

Tampa, Florida-based Overseas Shipholding Group Inc. (NYSE: OSG), which specializes in shipping crude oil and petroleum products, has taken delivery of two 50,000-ton tankers that were built at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co. Ltd. in Ulsan, South Korea.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 15, 2017
BTI sells another tract in Marina District

BTI Partners has notched yet another major sale within its Westshore Marina District project, bringing to 32 the number of acres sold or committed this year within the 54-acre project in South Tampa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 20, 2015
Blue Rock Partners, Goff Capital buy, rename Cameron Lakes Apartments

Tampa-based Blue Rock Partners LLC and its equity partner, Goff Capital Partners LLP, purchased the 207-unit Cameron Lakes Apartments for $19.35 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 17, 2024
Manatee pays $4.4 million for sheriff’s department building

The county has closed on the purchase of the Manatee County Sheriff's Office District 3 building which the department has leased for nearly a decade.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • August 12, 2024
Broker: $2.3M Sarasota complex sale shows 'market stabilization'

The Class B and C multifamily sector should "continue to stabilize," says Sean Dreznin, agent and partner in Dreznin Pappas Commercial Real Estate.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • June 10, 2016
Venture boost

Dieter Kondek is on a mission to attract venture capital to Southwest Florida. For starters, he and his partners plan to raise $5 million for an angel fund and another $30 million for a health care fund.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 9, 2006
Market Shift

The theme of a recent meeting of the Urban Land Institute in Southwest Florida says it all: 'How Low Can You Go?' Pretty low, it turns out.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 8, 2019
Cancer center, art college team up on content to improve patient experience

Dr. Sarah Hoffe is driving a partnership between Moffitt Cancer Center and Ringling College of Art and Design.

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