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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 22, 2015
Past meets future in Tampa

The Heights redevelopment project in Tampa is soldiering up with an organization from U.S. Special Operations Forces that will take over 3,000 square feet in the historic Armature Works building.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 10, 2015
New class of Florida inventors honored

Paul Sanberg is on his way to the hall of fame.

  • News
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 22, 2017
Hospital gets third CEO in two years

Bob Moore, with more than 30 years of executive hospital leadership experience is the new CEO at Venice Regional Bayfront Health.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Lindsay Downey |
  • July 6, 2012
Guns Blazing

A Lebanese immigrant recently relocated his business from Connecticut to the Gulf Coast. Despite several hurdles, the move is working.

  • Strategies
  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • November 8, 2019
Insurance firm aims to keep up regular communication with customers

Can an insurance firm be less robotic and more empathetic? One company says yes and will use that model to grab more market share.

  • Insurance
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 16, 2021
Bankers seek to get foothold in medical marijuana industry

Most Florida banks avoid cannabis and related companies — given the obstacles and legal uncertainty. Others see opportunity in the mushrooming industry.

  • Finance
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 3, 2018
Cool Made: Florida manufacturers overcome obstacles

On both a national level and within Florida, manufacturing is on the rise — in multiple metrics. Manufacturers are making more stuff and using fewer people to do it. But if manufacturers had more people, they would be able to make more stuff. A trio of ar

  • Industries
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • November 18, 2020
Firms find ways to help employees through pandemic

Keeping employees engaged — and mentally strong — at work is now a pandemic-era challenge like no other. Strategies, from providing clarity to espousing empathy to toilet roll basketball, are in the offing.

  • Strategies
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 31, 2012
Tampa Prep isn't the only STEM-smart program

Many similar techniques and technologies are already transforming the way students learn science and math in Sarasota and Charlotte counties' public schools.

  • Opinion
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 6, 2014
Clearwater company finds shipwreck

The remains of the S.S. Connaught could have a cargo of gold coins.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 4, 2015
Keep Florida weird, and wired

Gulf Coast area entrepreneurs recently engaged in the fifth annual Ignite Tampa Bay.

  • News
  • By Brian Hartz |
  • October 6, 2017
Make it Proud

Manufacturers need qualified workers more than ever. An innovative local program seeks to fill the void.

  • Strategies
  • By Brian Hartz |
  • December 28, 2018
Retail therapy: Ambitious mall makeover hits its stride

The quiet transformation of University Mall in Tampa, Florida, into an urban development concept, rebranded as Uptown, recently shifted into a new gear.

  • Strategies
  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • October 26, 2018
Wyatt Chocklett, 33

Chief operating officer, Doctors Hospital of Sarasota

  • Class of 2018
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 16, 2018
Snack Attack

Two entrepreneurs see a tasty opportunity at the margins between meals.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Ted Carter |
  • March 24, 2017
Space on the spot

For one of the largest, and fastest growing, medical supply firms in Florida, new facilities are part of the long-term strategy.

  • Strategies
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 30, 2012
Queue It Up

Modernizing an industry can be tricky. A young and ambitious entrepreneur is giving it a shot.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 27, 2018
Job Jostle

The No. 1 challenge most executives face today is simply defined, yet exceedingly difficult to execute: hiring the best people.

  • Strategies
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 23, 2020
Business owners chase loans to make payroll, survive

With confusion at the top of the list, entreprenuers and bankers in the region muddled through the first two weeks of financial relief.

  • Finance
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 6, 2012
Three Developments to Watch in 2012

A list of three developments that will significantly impact the local economy in the coming year.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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