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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • November 6, 2020
KRATE container park at the Grove at Wesley Chapel

KRATE, a container park featuring a mix of retail and restaurant properties, is set to open in early 2021 at the Grove at Wesley Chapel shopping center in Wesley Chapel, Florida.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 13, 2019
Shopping districts seek new marketing strategies

Shopping centers in the region look to improve the tenant mix.

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  • By Ted Carter |
  • December 29, 2017
Move Forward

Turning a transportation hub — an old train station — into a technology hub is an expensive project. A recent $5 million fundraising effort has been a boost.

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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • January 22, 2016
Neighborhood watch

A real estate data firm targets a unique segment: Pinpoint predictions into who will sell a home before it hits the market.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • May 22, 2015
Senior boom

A Michigan developer of senior housing is following its snowbird customers down Interstate 75. He joins a crowded field.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • June 26, 2015
Memory lane

Developers are building facilities for the coming wave of baby boomers with Alzheimer's and other dementia. These are not your parents' nursing homes.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 3, 2015
Home base

After 12 years of paying rent, Dunn&Co. decides to make its current home, in Tampa's historic Corina Cigar Factory, permanent.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • December 4, 2015
Get linked

Social media site LinkedIn is a great way to find the right people, but then you have to be persistent with follow-up phone calls and personal visits.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • By Rod Thomson |
  • August 21, 2015
5 ways Voluntary Benefits contribute the health of your business

5 ways Voluntary Benefits contribute the health of your business

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 4, 2015
Looking beyond The Vue

As its hotel and condo project sells out, Kolter Group has designs on a pair of premier Sarasota properties.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • September 25, 2015
Forever young

Entrepreneur Dan Sinclair is a candidate for the Lee County Supervisor of Elections. He plans to leverage his extensive network of young professionals in next year's election.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 30, 2015
Smart money

Several residential real estate markets on the Gulf Coast might soon get an inventory jolt. This could be a good thing — with a caveat.

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  • By Michael Hinman |
  • April 24, 2015
Virtual mentality

A tech-savvy entrepreneur aims to bring something new to the advertising industry.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 1, 2024
Tampa-area construction, concrete entrepreneur and inventor dies at 78

James Patrick Judge, a Dunedin resident and longtime entrepreneur in the concrete and construction industries in the region and across the state, has died.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • December 11, 2024
10-story Hilton-branded hotel proposed in downtown Sarasota

A Tempo Hotel by Hilton is proposed to replace a row of one-story merchant spaces, providing multiple adjustments are granted.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • November 7, 2025
Firm signs 63K square feet of Sarasota office space leases

"We’re seeing a strong resurgence in demand for office space," Derek Robbins, senior partner at Robbins Commercial, says in a statement.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • August 29, 2023
U-Haul offers free storage at 54 facilities in response to hurricane

As Hurricane Idalia approaches Florida, U-Haul offers storage options throughout several regions.

  • Florida
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • July 12, 2023
North Port turns attention to environment with development of new division

The Sarasota County city's new division will operate on $460,000 annually, though a $3.5 million tree fund has an open tab for program development and conservation efforts.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • May 29, 2022
Sarasota physician finds rapid success with personalized medicine practice

Dr. Tracy Gapin recently made the ultimate career pivot, in launching a new medical practice that seeks to take high-tech personalized medicine mainstream.

  • Health Care
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 9, 2007
How to Wow 'Em

BankAtlantic CEO Jarett S. Levan was in the Tampa Bay area recently to meet employees and personally thank them for their service.Many of BankAtlantic's 300 employees in Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties showed up at the Florida Aquarium for the annual employee appreciation event, called Red Carpet Night.Levan, who succeeded his father, Alan Levan, as CEO in January, hopes that his one-on-one interaction with employees will help foster the type of relationship the bank wants employees to have with customers."We have a culture that we call the 'wow experience,'" Levan says. "It's a culture of wowing our associates and wowing our customers."

  • Entrepreneurs
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