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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 19, 2022
New $1.7 million office opportunity sprouts for potato farmer

The office building became available five days after Alan Jones reached out to a brokerage firm.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • October 10, 2023
Longtime Sarasota bank executive, politico to chair national trust board

Christine Jennings founded Sarasota Bank for 15 years and ran for a congressional seat twice.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • August 2, 2023
Two financial firms merge in Fort Myers

Southwest Florida advisers decide to merge to create larger financial shopping.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • July 10, 2025
Avelo Airlines extends 9 flights into 2026 at four airports in region

The low-cost airline will provide service from LAL, SRQ, RSW and TPA.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 16, 2025
Prominent Lakeland commercial real estate firm grows

Saunders Real Estate, a to Polk County CRE firm best known for conservation easements, is expanding into Tampa, with a new office on Westshore Boulevard.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 18, 2006
Unflinching Optimism, Practical Steps

Even as they predict brighter days, Gulf Coast Realtors and those in related industries are taking protective measures now.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 28, 2010
Reset for Recovery

Gulf Coast office buildings now offering cheap rents and plentiful space will eventually attract new businesses.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • July 27, 2012
It's cast in bronze: Obama rejects who we are

It is still a stinging welt, the day-after effect of a nasty wasp sting. That would be the now-infamous remark from Barack Obama.

  • Opinion
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • July 25, 2014
Trades are Back

Warehouses and other industrial buildings are filling up with construction trades as homebuilding recovers in the Fort Myers and Naples areas.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • October 25, 2013
Big Smile

A Fort Myers dentist hopes a new office with a theme-park atmosphere will keep kids and their parents coming back.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • April 8, 2016
The X Factor

Co-work office space is in high demand as the ranks of freelance workers swell. Entrepreneurs David and Brett Diamond plan to franchise their concept, Venture X.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • June 10, 2022
2022 Innovator: Praxis Medical, Tampa

Founded by an entrepreneurial radiologist, the company's products are improving and redefining basic medical procedures.

  • Technology
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • August 29, 2022
Medical device industry entrepreneur attacks a new industry niche

After growing and exiting one $100 million business, startup medical device entrepreneur Alex Lucio has latched onto another big opportunity.

  • Healthcare
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • October 14, 2022
Robert Podgorski, 32

Green Cup Café, co-owner

  • Class of 2022
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • March 4, 2005
Gloomy Forecast

An economist with the federal insurer of bank deposits puts lenders on notice that there could be tougher days ahead.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 17, 2006
Coffee Talk

HMA: Bond sale? What bond sale?: Just two days after Naples-based Health Management Associates said it would sell $400 million worth of bonds, the hospital company abruptly canceled the sale.Film fest puts on a profitable show: Sarasota residents love movies, and they spent the cash to prove it the last few weeks.Boston developer scouts for deals from Tampa to Naples: Evidence of Southwest Florida's growth has popped up on the radar of The Davis Cos., a longtime Boston development company that has developed more than $1 billion worth of real estate in 30-plus years.Demand goes up, rents rise: The Tampa Bay area's office market moved up to fourth place in 2006 on the Marcus & Millichap ranking of the country's major commercial real estate markets, thanks to a strong local economy spurred by company expansion and corporate relocation.In memoriam: Coffee Talk was saddened to hear about the death of Brent Craven, the former CEO of a Tampa online education company and one-time St. Petersburg resident.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 14, 2008
Bloomin good business

Entrepreneur Ruth Doroslovac has started small but wants tomake Flowers to Eat a nationally franchised food products company.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 8, 2004
AD Confusion

For haters of lawyer advertising, Stetson University adjunct law professor Susan S. Demers says it could be worse in Florida. With some of the most restrictive rules on lawyer advertising in the country, the Sunshine State could be metropolitan New York.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • November 27, 2020
Hospital completes $126 million expansion amid pandemic

A massive and much-needed expansion was under way at an area hospital built in the 1960s when the pandemic hit. Then the really unexpected happened: They completed it early.

  • Healthcare
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • March 12, 2020
Digital marketing firm primed for growth — even in pandemic

Vectra Digital CEO Matt Bernhardt says now is the not time to slow down.

  • Strategies
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