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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 13, 2016
Real estate firm buys into new market

The firm had more than $1 billion in sales volume in 2015.

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  • April 14, 2015
WCI insiders selling stock

Two large shareholders of Bonita Springs-based developer WCI Communities plan to sell shares in a secondary offering.

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  • June 23, 2025
Tampa claims No. 1 spot on best cities for foreign businesses list

The city moves from No. 26 to the top spot.

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  • October 26, 2018
Opinions wanted

The Business Observer is conducting a reader survey.

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  • February 14, 2020
How to handle online reviews

Respond to every review from a customer, negative and positive.

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  • April 8, 2013
Company hits all-time weekly sales high

Clearwater-based direct mail and marketing firm PostCardMania had a week for the ages in late February, but founder and CEO Joy Gendusa didn't celebrate for long.

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  • February 14, 2021
Tire chain spins rapid growth, surpasses $200M in sales

RNR Tire Express celebrated several success in a challenging 2020.

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  • April 8, 2022
Seattle tech firm to expand to region, hire 500 workers

Microsoft business solutions provider Avanade plans to open a software engineering hub in Tampa, Florida, and hire 500 people to staff it.

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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • March 26, 2024
Lennar readies Pinellas townhouse community for sale

National homebuilder Lennar has commenced sales at Townes at Bayou Heights, a Pinellas Park gated community of 32 townhouses.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 11, 2024
$20M Fort Myers Beach portfolio, including restaurant, listed for sale

Bonita Bill's Waterfront Café is part of a multi-property collection of properties that has been put on the market and a sign of the imminent change coming to the community.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • February 15, 2019
NAIOP Hall of Famer's "Fan Club" well deserved

CRE Consultants' Managing Partner and former Florida Market Leader at CBRE Inc. Ray Sandelli was recently inducted into the NAIOP Tampa Bay's Hall of Fame, and former colleagues marked the occasion to create a "Fan Club" for him

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  • September 16, 2016
Brand hand

Personal branding in the digital age requires more than your name and a bio. It's also a long-term commitment to authenticity, says one national expert.

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  • December 22, 2006
Commercial RE Briefs

California apartment owner buys Twelve Oaks PlazaBank subsidiary buys SteeplechaseSarasota entrepreneur buys Stickney Point centerBuskirk, Summers & Gravely plan Synovus branch Barron Collier buys 4,200-acre SerenoaSand Castles Group expects headquarters start next year Land Solutions, Development Solutions buying new HQPhiladelphia real estate fund acquires five North Reo buildingsInvestment group buys, repositions Buccaneer PlazaPulte Homes breaks ground for largest new community

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  • July 1, 2005
Affordable and Profitable

Harvey Vengroff and partners are addressing the affordable housing shortage through private enterprise. Everybody wins - investors, VWA employees and the neighborhoods.

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  • August 23, 2024
Developer pushes tiny homes as solution to affordable housing crisis

Dan Dobrowolski has been building small houses for two decades and believes they provide homeowners what they need and are more humane than traditional apartment blocks.

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  • January 1, 2012
Move the Furniture

Larry Norris says customers are buying more furniture today than they did during the downturn, in some cases furnishing entire homes instead of just one room.

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  • July 27, 2007
Growth Surge

Oldsmar-based Network Liquidators has grown to become an adviser to clients and has seen revenues for the first six months of this year surpass all of 2006.

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  • September 9, 2023
Report: Sarasota is the No. 1 housing market to watch

The mortgage-to-income ratio in Sarasota is 19.5%, below the national average.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • December 17, 2023
Former state prosecutor arrested in $100K fraud case with 85-year-old victim

Sherry Lee Ellis, 65, is charged with stealing nearly $113,000 from her Alzheimer's patient boyfriend.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 26, 2024
Amazon to deliver latest technology in new 650,000SF Fort Myers center

The online retail giant plans to use its latest robotics technology at the fulfillment center it will build on State Road 82.

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