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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 29, 2024
Barnes & Noble shutters nearly 30-year-old Carrollwood store in Tampa

The bookstore chain closed its store on North Dale Mabry and will move to a new space in a former Bed Bath & Beyond just north of it.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • December 14, 2025
Luxury tower tops half-billion dollars in sales

In the week's top commercial real estate news, owners invest $2 million Sarasota County gym, a Dallas investor buys St. Pete properties, and a mover moves into new space in Manatee.

  • Florida
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • July 5, 2022
Days of our fries: Tampa fast-food chain chews on calendar confusion

Checkers & Rally's calls for a change to National French Fry Day.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 17, 2010
Retired FDIC chair gets new bank gig

Bill Isaac, a former Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. chairman who lives on Longboat Key, has been named to the board of Fifth Third Bancorp.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 3, 2011
Project denial puzzles developers

A recent decision by the Sarasota City Commission surprised even some wary developers and provides more anecdotal proof for those who consider the body anti-growth.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 25, 2011
College Hunks haul in capital

College Hunks Hauling Junk, with about $3 million in annual revenues, recently merged with 1-800-Junk-USA, a waste management and recycling firm.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 3, 2011
Outlook sunny for Tampa's recovery

The weather is just right for moving a business to Tampa, according to three executives who participated in the first online webinar by the Tampa Bay Partnership.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 26, 2012
Florida is on overtime for wage and hour claims

The reputation of Florida being a heavily litigious state is apparently well earned.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 23, 2012
TerraCap buys Hampton Inn for $4.57 million

The price equated to $38,063 per room.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 13, 2014
Angel network grows wings

The going was slow at first last fall when former Atlanta investment banker Steve Morris launched an angel investor network in Sarasota.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 23, 2014
B&L Investments buys Interstate Corporate Center

An affiliate of Tampa-based investment firm B&L Investments LLC purchased the 344,896-square-foot Interstate Corporate Center for $27.5 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 28, 2017
DeSoto Square Mall sold for $25.5 million

Brooklyn, N.Y.-based investor plans $7 million worth of renovations to the struggling Bradenton retail hub

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • July 25, 2024
Feld Entertainment names new CEO, new president

The live entertainment company based in Manatee County makes two executive leadership changes.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 15, 2026
Pasco County mall adding new retailers, restaurants — Lululemon among them

The Shops at Wiregrass is growing its tenant roster after undergoing upgrades last year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • September 19, 2025
Two new insurers join Florida’s growing insurance market

Stand Insurance Exchange, based in Tallahassee, and Praxis Reciprocal Exchange, based in Tampa, have been approved to do business in Florida, Insurance Commissioner Mike Yaworsky announced Thursday.

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  • March 29, 2008
Calendar of Events

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • December 23, 2016
Honor to fly

Debi and Sean Lux launched a nonprofit organization that flies area veterans to visit memorials in Washington, D.C.

  • Strategies
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • August 29, 2013
Common core: Don't do it

Common Core Standards. Put them in the same tin can as Obamacare.

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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • October 10, 2024
David Habib, 31

40 Under 40 winner David Habib is founder and CEO of Yo Mama’s Foods.

  • Class of 2024
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 27, 2022
Buyer secures $11.9 million in financing for Naples multifamily complex

The new owners of the Opus Apartments in Naples turned to Berkadia for acquisition financing.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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