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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 2, 2019
Popular restaurant chain serves up new catering venue

Gecko’s Hospitality Group, one of the largest restaurant companies in the Sarasota-Bradenton region, plans to open a catering and event venue in Sarasota later in March.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 11, 2019
Global medical technology company acquires area firm for $180 million

Voalte's communications platform connects caregivers through voice, alarm and text communications.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 22, 2018
Manufacturing forecast for Sunshine State: gloomy

a new national study from the Ball State Center for Business and Economic Research and Conexus Indiana on manufacturing and logistics. The Sunshine State scored a D in manufacturing industry health, one of nine states to barely pass.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 30, 2018
Growing auto marketing company acquires video production firm

Sarasota-based auto marketing company Dealers United plans to integrate Seattle-based video production company What's Next Media's work into digital and social media campaigns.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 4, 2018
London Bay Homes buys Bonita Springs site for $12.75 million

Naples homebuilder takes control of 30-acre, waterfront tract

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 13, 2022
Tampa General partners with medical group on new psychiatric hospital

The partnership with Kindred on the new hospital is the medical group's second.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 5, 2022
$92 million project in Sarasota goes vertical

The first phase of the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens project will include a plant research center and herbarium.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Randi Donahue |
  • February 10, 2017
How to ... Deal with a challenging client

A positive outcome with a client has a lot to do with managing expectations on the front end of the relationship, says Josh Myers, owner of Sarasota-based Myers Painting LLC.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 6, 2017
Take that, hurricanes

Developer building a strategy to battle storms.

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  • October 12, 2017
Merger creates one of largest law firms in county

The newly merged firm will be named Dye Harrison.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 28, 2017
Latvala: Term limits the root of the 'rough' session

'Lost in that is trying do what's right for the state.'

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 4, 2014
Snell Isle apartments sell for $32 million

Cleveland-based property management firm Burton Carol Management LLC purchased the 272-unit Snell Isle Luxury Waterfront Apartment Homes for $32 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 15, 2014
Luxury market roars back

A relic of days gone by — the multimillion-dollar spec house — has garnered more attention from Gulf Coast homebuilders.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 11, 2016
Hotelier aims to bring new flag to Sarasota

The property has changed owners several times recently.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 12, 2016
Groups aim to dump tax

A large coalition of statewide business groups — organizations that sometimes disagree on issues — have come together in support of a tax cut championed by Florida Gov. Rick Scott.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 25, 2016
Gators score innovation points

After nearly two years of secret meetings and slow progress, Sarasota business and economic development officials could finally celebrate a major achievement: A unique and ambitious economic development initiative and partnership with the University of Florida that holds potential for both area students and businesses.

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  • June 5, 2015
High-tech expansion is afoot

The first time Bill Robinson helped build a sporting goods chain, a Bradenton company that later became Champs Sports, technology was an afterthought.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 1, 2016
Beach renourishment

Developer Tom Torgerson has an ambitious plan to redevelop downtown Fort Myers Beach, which includes building a complex of four beachfront hotels, shopping and dining.

  • Industries
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 16, 2015
2015 surprises: office, industrial growth

As Wells Fargo Senior Economist Mark Vitner wound down his 2015 forecast Wednesday in Sarasota for the members of the Gulf Coast CEO Forum, he saved his headline news for last:The biggest economic surprise in 2015 for Florida, Vitner predicted, will be “how substantially the single-family housing market will have rebounded and how office and industrial will have done as well as it did.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 15, 2025
Fort Myers flood insurance costs to drop by 20%

The city’s FEMA rating has improved to a Class 6, which means residents will see big discounts starting in October.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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