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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 14, 2010
Avanti buys Palmetto's Corvus site

Winter Park-based investment group Avanti Investment Advisors purchased the 211 acres of vacant land east of Riviera Dunes and south of U.S. 301 in Palmetto for $24 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 13, 2009
Not so newsy: Bank needs capital

There was a time when regulatory orders, strictly written memos of understanding and other command-style communications from regulators to bankers was top news.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 26, 2010
Walter to 'Bama, but execs stay here

As Walter Energy Inc. continues its headquarters relocation, several of its top executives are likely staying put.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 4, 2013
C1 Bank opts for 'Plan B'

C1 Bank is moving on after scuttling its planned high-profile merger with Miami-based U.S. Century Bank.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 15, 2013
Michigan's Oakland Management Corp. plans Naples senior facility

The price equated to $206,422 per acre.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 28, 2013
California's Pacifica Cos. buys Abbey at Forest Lake

The price equated to $82,500 per unit.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 16, 2011
A bit of growth could go a long way

The euphoria over technology firm stocks and IPOs, which has the outsized appearance of what looks like a bubble-in-the making, dropped a few seedlings on the Gulf Coast.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 25, 2012
Firm exports its way to excellence

MyUS.com received an award from the U.S. Department of Commerce for exports.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 13, 2011
Jax Labs doing the dance

It appears the Bar Harbor, Maine-based research lab may be moving legislators in the direction its lobbyists want them to go.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 7, 2012
Davis Development buys land for Venue at Lakewood Ranch

The price equated to $400,000 per acre.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 25, 2021
Developer sells a pair of self-storage facilities

Seagate Development Group built the facilities in 2019 and 2020.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 18, 2018
Bank appoints Southwest Florida market president

Fermin “JJ” Miranda most recently worked in business banking at Cadence Bank in Sarasota and Manatee.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 7, 2017
Go down under

The first subterranean parking garage comes to downtown Naples

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 1, 2013
CorTemp Ingestible Body Temperature Sensor and the CorTemp Data Recorder

The firm's main products are the CorTemp Ingestible Body Temperature Sensor and the CorTemp Data Recorder. The sensor is a pill that transmits a body temperature while it travels through the digestive track.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 30, 2015
Investors cheer lab deal

When Douglas VanOort took the top job at cancer-testing firm NeoGenomics six years ago, he pledged to turn the company into the nation's premier oncology lab.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 15, 2023
Boston firm wins work in $150M project to help combat algae bloom in Fort Myers

The city of Fort Myers has chosen engineering and construction firm CDM Smith to oversee a five-year, $150 million project designed to eliminate discharge into the surface waters of the Caloosahatchee River.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 1, 2026
Clearwater's Decks & Docks buys San Diego building materials dealer

The local company is expanding into California with the purchase of J&W Lumber.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 17, 2017
New beginning

Former Lakewood Ranch and Babcock Ranch executive is creating a new niche at Ian Black Real Estate in Sarasota.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • June 24, 2016
Deal shop

Dan Creighton has a knack for finding redevelopment deals that other retail developers have missed. Now he's expanding out of state.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • December 25, 2015
Talent crunch

A fast-growth tech firm has one of those so-called good problems: Business is booming so much it needs a lot more employees.

  • Strategies
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