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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 21, 2024
Upscale Sarasota clothing boutique and its building up for sale

In the week's top commercial real estate news, North Port land is preserved, a Fort Myers firm has a really good week, and Tampa is getting more industrial space.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 21, 2018
Survey says … bank branches are back

Bank Director magazine has released the somewhat surprising results of its latest technology survey.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 9, 2024
SWFL boat lift manufacturer adds three VPs to leadership team

Fort Myers aluminum boat lifts and dock company Golden Manufacturing recently added three vice presidents to its staff.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 23, 2009
New Jersey contractor buys South Bay

Perry Pavicic, who owns a New Jersey construction rehab company, purchased the 44-unit South Bay Apartments at the southwest corner of Dale Mabry Highway and Wisconsin Avenue for $500,000.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 22, 2013
New York limited liability company buys 2.25-acre Longboat Key parcel

A New York City buyer, operating as Paulinebea LLC, purchased a 2.25-acre vacant parcel on the Gulf of Mexico for $6 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 9, 2011
MagneGas producing in Mich.

The fuel producer tacks on another market for the sale of its unique product.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 1, 2016
Yacht retailer opens new location

The dealer currently has 52 retail locations.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Jay Schlichter |
  • September 6, 2019
Restauranteurs pick out-of-the-way spot to build eatery featuring massive tiki huts

Kearns Restaurant Group knew their latest concept was a hit, so they built a second one. This one's in west Fort Myers.

  • Construction-Development
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • November 29, 2022
Entrepreneurial-focused center is running out of space after just one year

A wide mix of tenants is quickly filling up the 26 West Center at State College of Florida in Bradenton.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • June 10, 2021
Oak Street adds to regional Walgreens portfolio

Chicago investment firm Oak Street Real Estate Capital acquires handful of drugstores along Gulf Coast, its second foray into the retail net-lease sector in the region this year.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 20, 2015
Furnished fantasy

How a national retailer sets up shop in a new location is a hub of activity. It's part commerce, part theater.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 25, 2018
Officials to break ground on $16 million cancer center

The Florida Cancer Specialists center in Lakewood Ranch will allow patients to receive chemotherapy, national clinical trials, physician visits and laboratory services.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • April 1, 2016
Downtown Tampa Office Market

Tampa's downtown office market surged in the final half of 2015, the result of shrinking vacancy, a dearth of new construction and improved leasing activity, an analysis of CoStar Group data shows.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 29, 2016
Investors earn handsomely

After a decade in management roles at Morgan Stanley, including stints in New York and London, Trevor Burgess sought to get into community banking in 2008, somewhere in Florida.

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • February 3, 2023
Tampa insurtech startup continues to acquire policies from rivals

Slide Insurance’s latest haul includes $292 million in annual premiums from UPC Insurance.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 13, 2009
Calendar: The girls of PostcardMania

Sexy calendars of employees is nothing new — just look at the Hooters business model — but the latest calendar announcement comes from an unexpected source, and that's the point.

  • News
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 23, 2012
Tech company takes big baby steps

The latest version of 'what recession?' stars a Gulf Coast mobile software firm.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 4, 2017
Big gets bigger

Walmart's new Davenport facility is designed to be the distribution hub of the future.

  • News
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • May 20, 2016
Clean start

Joe and Sandy Nelson brought the sparkle back to a local Molly Maid franchise. Hiring the right people — and being unafraid to purge the wrong ones — has driven the comeback.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 11, 2014
Garb Oil & Power seeking new Bay location

The Utah company is looking for a office/warehouse property in the and a site for a new waste-to-energy production plant north of it.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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