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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • February 8, 2013
Health Care Scramble

Insurance brokers, accountants and lawyers are poring over the details of Obamacare and helping their clients make decisions that at this point are sometimes little better than educated guesses.

  • Strategies
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 28, 2021
Manufactured homes pioneer still rolling along

Murex Properties' Steven Adler follows his father's footsteps into business — and earns his industry's highest honor.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • July 24, 2020
Power surge: Crises motivate utility president to seek constant improvement

Just two years into her tenure, Duke Energy Florida President Catherine Stempien has weathered a Category 5 hurricane and now the COVID-19 crisis.

  • Leadership
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 20, 2022
Billion-dollar industry blooms as acceptance for marijuana becomes widespread

As the marijuana industry and its connected sectors gains acceptance, it creates real estate and other challenges.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • December 20, 2023
Crucial impact fee discussion in Manatee gets costly, complicated

The collection of impact fees — when and how much — has stirred up a significant amount of controversy in Manatee County, with few answers.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • May 3, 2013
Internet tax far more than a fairness issue

Steve Knopik, CEO of $1 billion retailer Beall's Inc., looked across the lunch table straight at his target with steely eyed seriousness and said, “How is that fair?”

  • Opinion
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 7, 2007
Coffee Talk

JBM Realty Advisors goes California dreamin' : Another Tampa company, JBM Realty Advisors, one of the nation's premier institutional multifamily brokerage firms, recently connected with a large out-of-state business, Sperry Van Ness.Sarasota Chamber looks to tomorrow with optimism: Sarasota Tomorrow, the capital campaign designed to prove businesses aren't just a necessary evil, kicked of its donation season with a big announcement: It has already raised $1.22 million - 60% of its $2 million goal.Condo project goes retro, sells most units: The following sentence wasn't lifted out of a 2005 Coffee Talk item: A Sarasota condo developer has been selling units at about the rate of one a week for three months, with the majority going to the contract stage Sarasota money manager dies from stroke: Gary Wood, founder of a Sarasota-based money management firm bearing his name, died Nov. 29, a few weeks after suffering a stroke. He was 68.HMA highlights chairman's stock sales: It's usually a routine affair when top executives sell stock of the company they manage.Foreign tourism slips, security issues blamed: Security concerns are making it more difficult for the Tampa Bay area to attract foreign visitors, a key component of the area's important tourism industry.Commercial brokers seek access to TICs: If the National Association of Realtors has its way with federal regulators, some commercial real estate brokers will have another way of m

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 13, 2007
Through the Roof

Despite flat revenue projections for 2007 - another condo market victim - a Gulf Coast roofing company is working on big expansion plans.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 27, 2004
LandMark Finds the Formula (Sara/Mana edition)

After a slower start than some of its peers, LandMark Bank's directors learned a community banking lesson - the importance of a locally known CEO.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • December 30, 2005
Five Stars from 2005

Two Fort Myers companies' stock prices showed the biggest gains among the Gulf Coast's public companies.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • November 14, 2005
Independent Streak

A Tampa investment consultant says clients want somebody else besides their banker or broker telling them where to park their assets.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 24, 2004
A Transplanted Volunteer

Pinellas clerk candidate Carrie Wadlinger says she's so into systems management that she'd rather shop at Office Depot than Dillard's.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • September 17, 2010
Urban Cowboy

A former elected mayor of Tallahassee who wants to be agriculture commissioner can boast of a hardcore farming background. What he doesn't have, at least not yet, is statewide name recognition.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 30, 2010
Corporate Report: April 30 - May 5

New information from Sunovia Energy, Walter Investment, and more.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • February 22, 2013
Commercial Crocuses

The commercial real estate market is recovering slowly, but market observers say leasing activity is picking up noticeably from Tampa to Naples.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Dan Ping |
  • July 8, 2011
Assessing the Damage

An Orlando company has developed technology to help local governments determine how to direct their resources following a disaster. The software also aids communities in filing for disaster relief funds.

  • Strategies
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  • By Rod Thomson |
  • September 7, 2012
Working the Circuit

A small Tampa technology company is growing quickly, but not through online viral advertising or other clever digital methods. Its marketing campaign is far more traditional.

  • Strategies
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • July 1, 2021
Commercial real estate brokerage pick roils Sarasota firms

Sarasota County’s selection of Colliers’ Tampa office to market administrative headquarters in downtown Sarasota has caused consternation among competitors.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Louis Llovio and Mark Gordon |
  • August 19, 2021
Retail developers find ways to beat back e-commerce

Several large landlord and developers aren't ready to give up on the traditional shopping plaza.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • July 31, 2020
Luxury brand Ritz-Carlton is expected to make "a real statement" with Tampa condos

Luxury brand Ritz-Carlton will put its name on a new Related Group condominium development in Tampa, a potent signal of the city’s growing status

  • Commercial Real Estate
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