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  • By Jay Heater |
  • October 7, 2025
New Mote aquarium opens with a wave of excitement in Sarasota

A sneak preview for members precedes Mote Science Education Aquarium's Oct. 8 opening to the general public.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • October 14, 2025
Trio of Tampa Bay insurance firm IPOs raise nearly $900M

After years of stagnation, four Tampa Bay area insurers have gone public or announced plans for an IPO this year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Lesley Dwyer |
  • January 27, 2026
UTC in Sarasota-Manatee would get special taxing powers under proposed bill

If passed, House Bill 4091 will make the University Town Center area a special district that can pay for infrastructure using bonds.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 1, 2023
Entrepreneurs target $2M+ home services market with new firm

Franchised-focused founders seek to fill what they believe is a big gap in the luxury home services market. White gloves optional.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • February 8, 2019
Experts says Tampa has tailwinds behind it

Despite all of the growth it has had over the past seven years, a joint ULI and PricewaterhouseCoopers' annual report states that Tampa is poised for future economic expansion.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • October 14, 2022
Freddy Williams, 38

Boys & Girls Clubs of the Suncoast, president and CEO

  • Class of 2022
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • October 14, 2022
Jayme Waters, 30

Integrity Employee Leasing, sales director

  • Class of 2022
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 29, 2022
Feld Entertainment pushes into new year with big show plans

Executives of the live show production company have a lot to look forward to in 2023, even as some industry challenges linger.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 6, 2006
Let the Competition Begin

Sweetbay Supermarket CEO Shelley Broader says Kash n' Karry was "an aging beauty that was never really beautiful." Sweetbay will go head-to-head with Florida's largest supermarket chain, Publix, on its home turf.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 22, 2006
Rod Thomson: Economic optimism in the trenches

Gulf Coast business leaders in industries across the region expect 2007 to be a year of healthy economic growth.

  • Opinion
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 30, 2007
A Palm Plan

The Leiter Group and John Buck Co. score high for lower density, parking plan, affordable housing units and promise to minimize construction impacts for a downtown Sarasota project.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 20, 2007
Rod Thomson: Mozambique vs. Michigan: A lesson for us

Michigan and Mozambique are going in opposite directions. They offer lessons to Gulf Coast business leaders.

  • Opinion
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 8, 2007
Matt Walsh: The road to ruin: Letting FDOT build our highways

While Gov. Charlie Crist (our favorite shooting target) is traveling to the Middle East to continue laying the foundation for his run at the Republican vice presidential nomination and, after that, the presidency (don't laugh), Southwest Florida's transportation needs on Interstate 75 from Tampa Bay to Collier County are a prima facie example of how and why all road building and the government transportation departments should be abolished and privatized.

  • Opinion
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 8, 2008
LASDAY: Your price is too high

In an era of low confidence and limited budgets, the mantra calls for "full service" at "lower price".

  • Opinion
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 5, 2004
Let the Race Begin

The races for clerk of the court in Pinellas and Hillsborough counties promise to be interesting. Eight candidates are already making the rounds.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • January 13, 2006
Tax funding won't solve gridlock; it's time for tolls

Lee and Collier counties want to privatize expansion of I-75. Waiting forfederal funds is futile.

  • Opinion
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 12, 2006
Brains, Not Brawn

Cheap labor overseas won't stay cheap forever. USF professors say by using their heads, American businesses can stay ahead of the rest of the world.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 18, 2006
How to Minimize Trouble

Four lawyers, including the chief counsel for the Outback Steakhouse chain, advise CEOs what to do when a company is accused of sexual harassment.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 29, 2006
Generation Flap

Corporate America values younger workers because they are more flexible than Baby Boomers who don't deal with upheaval like they used to.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 29, 2006
The Old & the Rested

An economist who studied the Tampa Bay area's appeal to 'the young and the restless' thinks the region could bring in more retiring Boomers.

  • Entrepreneurs
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