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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • December 8, 2017
Market spotlight: Lee County Industrial Market

Numbers show interesting trend in Southwest Florida.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 5, 2018
Bug Out

Strong growth set to continue for regional company.

  • Strategies
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • February 2, 2018
Work it

Armature Works will combine multiple uses into a single 'old meets new' space in Tampa.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 18, 2014
WCI Communities buys 150 lots in Links at Rosedale

Bonita Springs-based developer and homebuilder WCI Communities purchased 150 home lots within Rosedale, a master-planned golf course community for $11.61 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 15, 2014
Investors Gibson family buy Sarasota Industrial Park building

Raymond Gibson, individually and as trustee of the Raymond H. Gibson Trust, purchased a 36,335-square-foot building in Sarasota Industrial Park for $1.08 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 22, 2014
Meridian Development, Blue Vista buy, redeveloping Premier Corporate Center

A joint venture of Tampa-based Meridian Development Group and Chicago's Blue Vista Capital Management purchased the 145,957-square-foot Premier Corporate Center for $8.2 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 29, 2014
Echo Realty enters Florida via Tampa

The retail real estate firm acquired Westgate Plaza in Citrus Park from Kimco for $11 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 29, 2014
Echo Realty enters Florida via Tampa

The retail real estate firm acquired Westgate Plaza in Citrus Park from Kimco for $11 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 20, 2014
Exec tees it up in print

FCCI Insurance Group human resources executive Lisa Krouse didn't take up golf until 2010, when she was 52 years old, but she quickly became addicted.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 5, 2014
Codina-Carr, Barron Collier joint venture buys land for Moorings Park at Grey Oaks

BUYER: HCC MP LLC (principal: K. Lawrence Gragg), Coral Gables

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 5, 2014
Mercury Investment buys Hunter's Ridge at Walden Lake

BUYER: MIC HR LLC (MAC Administrators XVIII Inc.), Duluth, Minn.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 20, 2014
Firm throws strike in pitch contest

Executives at SavvyCard, a St. Petersburg-based firm that provides online business cards, recently made a pitch that even impressed the Tampa Bay Rays.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • November 1, 2013
AquaRamp

A group of engineering and business students at Florida Gulf Coast University undertook a project in fall 2012 to help Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida design a pool ramp for disabled people at their nature camp. The result: AquaRamp.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 10, 2016
FBI makes eight arrests in $633M pharmacy scheme

Defendants allegedly used compounding pharmacies in New Port Richey and Miami.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 26, 2016
Create a tribe

A core theme of the 2016 Florida Working Women Conference, one of the more prominent Tampa annual events for women executives and entrepreneurs, is overcoming self-imposed limits.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 16, 2016
Indian Creek hits market for $60 million

A nearly 1,940-acre parcel of vacant land east of Interstate 75 in Sarasota County has come to the market with a hefty asking price of $60 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 4, 2016
Lakeland mobile home park sued for discrimination

The owner and managers of a mobile home park are being accused of discriminating against black buyers.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 14, 2016
40 under 40: Going places

The theme of the 2016 Business Observer 40 under 40 issue revolves around people who are going places — and who get there with grace, elegance and style.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 6, 2016
Forget the east coast

The chamber of commerce couldn't have written it any better: An April 28 Wall Street Journal story, titled “Get More for Your Vacation Home Dollar,” trumpeted Sarasota over Palm Beach.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • June 24, 2016
MARKET SPOTLIGHT | Tampa/St. Petersburg industrial market

The Tampa and St. Petersburg industrial submarket has been among the strongest and most robust sectors along the Gulf Coast since the region's economic recovery began in 2011.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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