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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • March 7, 2023
Sarasota law firm embraces growth to achieve top tier status

For a while, the founders of what's now Bentley Goodrich Kison resisted big-time growth. Not anymore.

  • Law
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 14, 2006
Inter-national Flavor

A diverse group of India-born hotel owners want in on the Gulf Coast community banking game.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 26, 2007
Finding Gold in Dirt

By providing commercial real estate services, Murphy Business & Financial Servicesfills a niche and grows its own business.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 27, 2007
Finding 'The Perfect Customer'

A two-year-old postcard marketing business thrives by flipping around the meaning of junk mail. It's delivered almost $2 million in revenues so far.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • October 7, 2005
Fort Myers LUV fest

Gary Kelly says Southwest Airlines will focus on growing Fort Myers and Tampa traffic on the west coast of Florida. Sarasota will have to wait.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 15, 2009
Baseball Miracle

Can Fort Myers support two minor-league baseball teams? It's tough making money in that business, but the Fort Myers Miracle is witnessing growing attendance even as the economy slows.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 12, 2003
Business Divorce (Tampa edition)

Messy split pits a former Tampa-based law partner against Miami's Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer PA.

  • Law
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 22, 2004
Real Estate Briefs (Sara/Mana edition)

This week's items: Vector Properties buys Wildewood Professional Park Earthworks Land Development to develop industrial park Quay ownership closes on land for roundaboutFlagship National Bank buys downtown

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 29, 2003
Driven Lawyer

Frank Russo's clients number in the thousands. The former prosecutor takes on 400 new cases most years. His specialty: DUI defense.

  • Law
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 25, 2008
Logical position

Why should air-traffic controllers have all the fun? One Gulf Coast-based company has developed software to track almost any global-positioning device anywhere.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • February 1, 2013
$2,500 won't do it; abolish the system

The cynical view is this: Florida Gov. Rick Scott has turned out to be just like the others — another narcissistic politician who lusts for power and will do whatever it takes to buy votes with government payoffs.

  • Opinion
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • June 24, 2021
Gulf Coast senior housing projects demonstrating renewed energy as pandemic wanes

Gulf Coast senior housing developments in downtown Sarasota and Naples show “green shoots” amid optimism that demand is gaining as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • November 27, 2020
Apartment deals surge throughout the Gulf Coast

After a COVID-19-inspired pause, investors in the final quarter of 2020 are once again pouring money into multifamily rentals throughout the region.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • August 21, 2020
'Crazy times'

Although LSI Cos. says the Southwest Florida real estate remains healthy for now, COVID-19 is casting a long shadow over the future of the market at present

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 27, 2022
$200 million Bath & Racquet project seeks to gain momentum — quickly

Developers hope to capitalize on persistently hot market.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 31, 2014
Corporate report

Impulse Creative moves to expanded headquarters; Garb Oil & Power buying Colorado's Chubby Glass; SUNZ Insurance promotes CFO, director of risk management and more corporate news.

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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • July 31, 2024
Tampa deli owner reflects on five decades of lessons

Jeff Mount never saw himself as "just" a sandwich guy. "If we’re selling sandwiches, we’re in trouble because a lot of people sell sandwiches. We’re in the experience business."

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Janet Leiser |
  • July 25, 2025
Founders design fitness club to meet untapped demand in wellness industry

A $2 million investment in a new fitness studio concept — with more capital likely to come — has the pair of Tampa entrepreneurs behind Revivery looking at potentially hundreds of locations.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 25, 2026
Tampa investor pays $43 million for Oklahoma hospital

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a former radio station property is bought by Arizona chain, a developer borrows $34.5 million for two Sarasota projects, and a Lakeland mall gets an IV lounge.

  • Florida
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • May 14, 2021
Firm stays ahead of competitors to provide clean air technology

A pre-pandemic move from military clients to general commercialization pays off for one fast-acting firm. ‘The two most important things we can be doing as a company is innovating and marketing’ one executive says.

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