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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 18, 2018
Planning official has his 'mad as hell' moment

Planning official in east Manatee County laments Manatee County Planning Commission's cavalier attitude.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 13, 2015
Tampa Ironman organizer fined $2.8M for lottery

World Triathlon Corp. made a $10,000 profit for every slot it chanced off for a trip to a world championship event in Hawaii, officials say.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 5, 2023
Food distributor to build 500,000-square-foot Plant City center, hire 200

Sysco Foods will begin building the distribution center early next year and expects to open it in 2025.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 4, 2011
Equity LifeStyle Properties buys Lake Village park

Chicago-based real estate investment trust Equity LifeStyle Properties purchased the 238-site Lake Village mobile home park for $23.77 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 24, 2018
Former cigar company HQ sells for $4.7M

Franklin Street negotiated the sale of a 7.6-acre site in Tampa, which formerly housed a cigar company, for $4.7 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 8, 2016
Big-time win for Sarasota tech firm

The platform will be integrated site-wide at 1,011 patient beds.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 3, 2021
Airport woos away official from neighboring county

Gary Duncan had been with Lee County for nearly 20 years.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 20, 2021
Pair of arenas to get $7.3M in emergency shelter-based upgrades

Lee County officials have now signed 14.7 million disaster relief and mitigation funding agreements since 2017.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 1, 2020
NYSE delists bankrupt area firm from stock exchange

Hertz Global Holdings now trades on the over-the-counter market, under the symbol HTZGQ.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 2, 2020
City renames street to honor entrepreneur

Hillsborough county officials have approved the renaming of a portion of West Comanche Avenue as "Tony Alessi Sr. Avenue," to honor the late Tampa entrepreneur and the company he created.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 26, 2020
Hotel management, development firm opens new hotel

SpringHill Suites Lakeland, a new hotel in Lakeland, Florida, officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, June 25.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 30, 2015
Pioneer in court records, Chips Shore, dead at 74

Chips Shore was first elected to serve Manatee County in 1976.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 9, 2024
Lee County gets 30-day reprieve on flood insurance downgrade

County officials say FEMA has granted the extension in an effort to allow the county to retain ranking that qualified it for a 25% discount.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • October 17, 2023
Naples museum rehires CEO in new role

The children's museum kept calling her back to a role, Dena Rae Hancock says.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 6, 2026
Senior housing community in Largo to officially open

An 80-unit community in the Ridgecrest neighborhood is part of the redevelopment of public housing units.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • August 26, 2023
Boat supply store sets sail for Sarasota

After 44 years, Boat Owners Warehouse has officially joined the Gulf Coast.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 16, 2010
Unemployment down again

A smaller labor force, rather than job creation, caused Florida's latest dip.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 5, 2013
Local Realtor sells Sarasota in Spain

Sarasota Association of Realtors represented the region at a real estate expo in Madrid.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 24, 2011
Angels coming to Orlando?

Entrepreneurs looking for seed money will be glad to know that a new angel investing group is forming in Central Florida.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 5, 2011
Florida tourism officials feeling all right

The recession, it turns out, didn't damper the mood of the annual Florida Governor's Conference on Tourism.

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