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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • July 14, 2017
Green for Green

Atlantic American Partners has created a niche using a sophisticated fund model fueled by immigrant dollars to finance Gulf Coast real estate.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 8, 2014
The New Gladesmen

The Patel family is now the biggest employer in Everglades City, a small outpost of 400 residents on the edge of the swamp. Thousands of tourists now fill their airboats.

  • Strategies
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 19, 2014
Surgical precision

A medical technology business with clients in 60 countries chases an ambitious goal: to simultaneously grow rapidly while it defends market share dominance.

  • Strategies
  • By Jean Gruss |
  • April 11, 2014
Open the Gate

Stonegate Bank has been marching up the Gulf Coast acquiring banks from Naples to Tampa. It plans to double in size over the next few years.

  • Finance
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 25, 2014
'Make it Happen'

Sara Blakely sold fax machines door-to-door. She was a standup comedian. Then she got serious and launched a business that shifted a multibillon-dollar industry.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • May 23, 2014
Flood of Risks

Paresh Patel is a risk-taker, so he wasn't scared of taking on Florida's property insurance market. Now the engineer-turned-CEO focuses on maintaining growth.

  • Strategies
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 13, 2014
'Bittersweet Solution'

A company with more than 30 employees and three decades on the Gulf Coast recently arrived at a major crossroads. A sweet offer made its decision easier.

  • Florida
  • By Jean Gruss |
  • November 28, 2014
The Wawa way

Convenience store chain Wawa is moving aggressively into Florida, creating new loyal fans with its good food and low prices.

  • Strategies
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 23, 2015
'Appetite for change'

Sure, change is hard. But a corporate exec-turned-franchise-entrepreneur has a message for leaders: Don't let fear get in the way.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Jean Gruss |
  • December 4, 2015
Fair winds

The return of corporate travel is creating opportunities for Offshore Sailing School as it offers team building and leadership training in a vacation setting.

  • Industries
  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • January 2, 2016
Stubborn passion

A Tampa hospitality company rode out the recession. Better days are on the way.

  • Strategies
  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • October 2, 2015
Sticky fingers

The industry that bonds Intertape Polymer Group together has been in decline. Yet Intertape, the second-largest tape producer in North America, forges ahead.

  • Strategies
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • January 2, 2015
The word for 2015: 'Aspire'

Each year, you make resolutions. A variation on that is to select a word, one word to live by for the next 12 months.

  • Opinion
  • By Matt Walsh |
  • March 27, 2015
Read and Comment: The 'state' controls 60% of Florida land; don't buy any more

It's never enough. And they will not be happy until we are all walking around in caveman loincloths, and every developer has been run out of the state.

  • Opinion
  • By Jean Gruss |
  • April 24, 2015
Pay dirt

Investors in TerraCap Management funds targeting distressed commercial real estate in Florida have benefited handsomely. The investment management firm says more deals are coming.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 12, 2024
Report: Trouble lurks for big banks with big CRE loan overexposure

Billions of dollars in property financing will mature by 2026. For banks seeped in commercial real estate loans, this poses some outsized risks.

  • Florida
  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • July 9, 2024
Jimmy Buffett-branded cruise ship chooses Tampa for home port

Margaritaville at Sea officials say Tampa, with its highly rated airport restaurants, hotels and more, has the just-right vacation vibe.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 23, 2022
Sarasota architecture firm increases retention, grows into top workplace

The path to creating a top place to work at one architecture firm starts long before an employee’s first day.

  • Strategies
  • By Lesley Dwyer |
  • January 13, 2025
50-acre mixed-use project in Lakewood Ranch nearly complete

CASTO executive Brett Hutchens anticipates the development will have its final grand openings in March.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Jeffrey Brandes, Adrian Moore, Edward Pinto |
  • July 15, 2025
Opinion: Sarasota affordable housing plan falls short

The affordability crisis is not a market failure. Sarasota needs to remove barriers. Other cities have done so and are seeing meaningful results.

  • Opinion
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