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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • January 5, 2018
Game On

West Villages comes roaring into 2018.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 12, 2018
Floridays still standing with Ovation

When the new 162-room Art Ovation Hotel held a preview event in mid-December in advance of opening early next month in downtown Sarasota, press reports left out one prominent Gulf Coast player.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 29, 2018
Investors pump $400K into germ-killing business

Vital Vio is the fourth company in which Tamiami Angel Fund III has invested.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 11, 2013
Boston's WS Development buys Hyde Park Village

The price equated to $169 per square foot.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 15, 2014
Hospitals in Sarasota, Tampa, ranked tops in U.S.

Tampa General is the second-best medical center in the state, report says.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 7, 2014
Former Google engineer to lead Voalte Labs

Fast-growing mobile health care communications firm launches new unit.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 5, 2014
Frontier Communities buys Bay Point Villas

Silver Spring, Md.-based Frontier Communities purchased the 136-unit Bay Point Villas Apartments, formerly known as the Pinellas Point Apartments, for $4.8 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 12, 2014
Unique startup aims to cool off airplanes

Bradenton-based Verde GSE plans to hire 14 employees over the next five years.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 17, 2014
Pirates buy Bradenton eatery for expansion

The team plans to add parking spots on the property.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 21, 2014
William Warren Group buys, rebranding Lock Tite Self Storage

The price equated to $95 per square foot.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 2, 2014
Bilmar Beach Resort sells for $16.4M

Clearview Hotel Capital LLC and William Harris Investor partnered to buy most the units, amenities and operations of the beachfront resort.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 24, 2014
Builders' group brings back pride

The Gulf Coast Builders Exchange aims to promote its members.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 26, 2016
'Brilliant with the basics'

Wall Street analysts credit a sales resurgence at the Olive Garden — a new breadstick recipe helped — with being at the forefront of the so-far successful corporate turnaround at Darden Restaurants.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 26, 2016
Create a tribe

A core theme of the 2016 Florida Working Women Conference, one of the more prominent Tampa annual events for women executives and entrepreneurs, is overcoming self-imposed limits.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 19, 2016
Blockbuster acquisition catapults tech giant into new markets

Tech Data will enter the Asia-Pacific market.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 2, 2016
Tampa real estate firm targets national expansion

Franklin Street was founded in 2006.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 14, 2016
40 under 40: Going places

The theme of the 2016 Business Observer 40 under 40 issue revolves around people who are going places — and who get there with grace, elegance and style.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 29, 2016
Chico's rebuts investor

The board battle at Chico's FAS took another turn Wednesday as the women's retailer accused a shareholder of a “self-serving proxy contest.”

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 1, 2016
Chico's reality show

Corporate proxy battles are usually fought behind the scenes in boardrooms with sparse details buried in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 18, 2016
Benderson sticking by Stickney Point plan

Despite the area's economic revival — now five years in the making — the 25-acre property at U.S. 41 and Stickney Point Road in Sarasota County has remained fallow.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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