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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 14, 2014
Naples ReDevelopment Inc. buys St. George and the Dragon site

The price equated to $501 per square foot or $4 million per acre.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 15, 2024
Work on $29M St. Petersburg senior housing project starts next month

The St. Petersburg Housing Authority will break ground next month on the site of the long-vacant Edward White Hospital building.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • January 26, 2026
Dollar Tree site sells for $950K in Fort Myers

The retail pad will be developed into a discount store.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • December 9, 2005
Real Estate (Sara/Mana)

Sarasota Memorial Starts Construction on InstituteDugans acquire 14th Street motelDeveloper files plan for Ranch retail centerWhitfield Park Loop buys warehouse

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 26, 2022
Iconic hotel owner on $156M sale: Time to slow down

Prominent Southwest Florida hotelier Phil McCabe cites both his age, and the hot market, as reasons to sell now.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 28, 2006
A Bigger Reach

Three real estate services are attempting to take market share from the Multiple Listing Service, long the property listings champion. Gulf Coast Realtors are benefiting from the competition.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 30, 2004
The Bailout for SRQ

The Sarasota-Manatee Airport Authority is asking taxpayers for $500,000 to subsidize a low-fare carrier. Here's the authority's case for why you should do it.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • November 9, 2018
Watershed for Water Street

Years in the planning stages, Strategic Property Partners' $3 billion Water Street Tampa is now gelling, as a half dozen new projcts prepare to go vertical in their construction.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 18, 2005
Real Estate Briefs (Sara/Mana edition)

RPM Exotics hits governmental snagHeritage Harbour developer buys land from dairy farmParsons Insurance buys office buildingMichael Saunders & Co. records $2.57 billion in sales HMA buys Venice hospitalInvestors buy Indian Beach apartments

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 3, 2010
High Hopes

A Gulf Coast inventor has learned many lessons in a two-decade effort to turn his creations into mass-market triumphs. He hopes 2011 will be a breakout year.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • January 20, 2017
At 20, we're just getting started

We'll adapt and reinvent for your needs. But we'll always hold on to one conviction: Capitalism is great.

  • Opinion
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  • By Cheryl O'Neill |
  • March 11, 2014
Understanding crowdfunding

Tales of success and tips on how to raise your own capital — one donation at a time.

  • Strategies
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 22, 2026
Prolific Atlanta multifamily developer buys Fort Myers land

In the week's top commercial real estate news, Wendy’s is adding locations in Manatee, a Polk County industrial site changes hands, and a Miami flooring company finds space in Fort Myers.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 8, 2014
Hills and Thrills

An ambitious project could transform a piece of Gulf Coast farmland into a 1,000-acre outdoor adventure park — three times bigger than Busch Gardens.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 6, 2017
What if?

The statewide boom in tourism, a jobs machine for the region, has to end sometime, right?

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 12, 2021
$510 million transformational resort project gets a reboot

After an isolating 17-month delay, the Sunseeker Resort Charlotte Harbor is starting up again.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 7, 2011
Kinder, Gentler

Even Rex Jensen's admirers use words like crusty and bristly when they describe the accomplished developer. Jensen's success, however, is based on much more than being tough.

  • Industries
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 19, 2019
Prominent medical center CEO resigns amid conflict of interest claims

Dr. Alan List has been with Moffitt Cancer Center since 2003, and CEO since 2012.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • September 2, 2005
Traveling Man

Lawrence Hutson led the design and launch of Travelocity.com in 1996. Now, the software visionary is taking the online travel industry to the 'next generation' with Nexgen Travel Distribution Inc.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 12, 2013
Whistleblower to get $4 million for exposing kickbacks

Dr. Alan Freedman formerly worked at the Tampa Pathology Laboratory.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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