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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 30, 2021
Acquisition changes trajectory of money management firm

An acquisition wasn’t on Ben Jones’ to-do list when the year started. A stars-aligned kind of moment changed everything.

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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • July 29, 2020
Bicycle store owners see increase in demand as well as supply issues

More people have taken up bicycling during the pandemic, with big implications for area bike shops.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • August 7, 2020
Tampa Bay restaurants and merchants remain cautiously optimistic

Tampa Bay restaurants and merchants still betting on consumer pent-up demand and touchless experiences to overcome virus fears

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • December 20, 2019
New Commerce

Online shopping is changing the industrial real estate sector in Southwest Florida, and new projects are delivering.

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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • March 6, 2020
Avoid pitfalls when handling new business ownership

New ownership of a business doesn't have to be plagued with problems.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 8, 2020
Landmark Reports teams with Georgia firm

Smart Real Estate Data plans to expand Landmark Reports' real estate research brand with new services, territory

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 19, 2020
COVID-19 CEO update: Kevin Johnson, Suncoast Credit Union, Tampa

Kevin Johnson, CEO of Suncoast Credit Union in Tampa, Florida, provides an update on how he and his organization are handling the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • January 28, 2022
Numbers of hotel rooms built drops in 2021 but rebounding in 2022

After hotel construction slowed down the past two years, signs point to a resurgence.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • October 19, 2018
Rivers brings experience to new role at JLL

New JLL Florida Market Leader Tim Rivers brings vast experience to his new job, where he hopes to better integrate the firm's services

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • September 26, 2014
Shifting market

The best deals on the Gulf Coast may be in Lee County, the last office-space market in the region to recover from the bust.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • November 20, 2015
Naples, revisited

Despite its affluence, Naples has historically been a bronze medal for national developers. Those thoughts are turning gold.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • June 13, 2024
Tampa bank division embarks on community association expansion

American Momentum Bank plans to target Texas first, then other areas of the country, in an effort to gain more property management clients.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • February 24, 2025
Toll Brothers to build new luxury home community in south Sarasota County

Oakbend Wellen Park will begin selling homes this summer.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • June 6, 2025
New CEO to lead expansion of Sarasota health tech company

PaceMate has named a new leader as it plans for commercial expansion.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 15, 2025
Port Charlotte restaurant site sold for nearly $3 million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a national gym chain is coming to Bradenton, a Brandon hotel is sold, and an industrial development is completed in Fort Myers.

  • Florida
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • November 19, 2025
The Parrot owners buying, rebranding former Big Top Live venue

Renamed The Parrot Live, the business featuring live music is getting a multimillion-dollar update.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Jeff Brandes |
  • June 21, 2026
DeSantis vs. DeSantis — and the battle between intentions and incentives

One DeSantis encouraged starter homes. The other may have just made them fiscally impossible to approve. And remember: good public policy is not measured by intentions. It is measured by incentives.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 30, 2008
Commercial Real Estate Briefs

Bradenton developer plans surgery centerOsprey investor buys Myakka agricultural landPlaza Hotel bound for Burns SquareForeign investor buys Tuscany ReserveCenterco Properties company buys Applebee's in EsteroTalk of the Town Diner buys Mel's Diner in Fort MyersCastriota dealership expands to Port RicheyRyan Cos. buys, begins developing in Telecom ParkPasco County School District buys land for new high school

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 25, 2008
Corporate Report

TBE Group merges with Cardno LimitedComegys Insurance Cornerbuys Jakhotia Insurance Roper Industries buysU.K.'s TechnologFlanders to move corporateoperations to N.C. facilityNanak's Landscapingbuys All About Green Revolution Money debutsnew reloadable cardNYSE grants extensionto WellCare Health PlansTIB Financial establishesnew trust committeeTechnology Research CFOplans to resignTarpon Springs Institute offersnew cataract lens implantAlico converts line of creditdebt on long-term loanHomeBanc opens two newbranch locations in Tampa Brooke Chase Associatesfinds CEO for Hoffco Beasley Broadcast Groupissues reduced quarterly dividendGates, Marinelli to be addedto Business Hall of FameSuperior Uniform Grouppicks Steelwedge SoftwareThree area companies topartner in Mercedes contestManatee Community Collegeapplies for four-year degreesGevity's next CEOreceives work permit

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • May 4, 2023
2023 Top Entrepreneur: Dr. Jacqueline Darna, founder of NoMo Nausea and Intellidoc, Tampa

Dr. Jacqueline Darna’s initial foray into medical entrepreneurship, a consumer product called NoMo Nausea, was a hit. Now she aims to disrupt telehealth.

  • Entrepreneurs
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