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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 15, 2008
Coffee Talk

+ Kleiner Perkinsinvests in companyKleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of the best-known venture capital firms in the world, recently disclosed it is an investor in Lehigh Technologies, a Naples-based company that was the winner of the Gulf Coast Business Review's technology innovation award for the Lee-Collier area in 2006.+ Newsflash: Checkthe copyright booksThe irony of this story is especially sweet: Seems that a group of supposedly well-intentioned attorneys across Florida goofed on a basic legal principle when forming a group to provide free legal services to homeowners facing foreclosure.+ Walter Industriesstock rises and fallsWalter Industries saw its stock jump to more than $104 a share this month on the New York Stock Exchange on the heels of a good quarterly report.+ Commercial propertyowners find tax helpNot every real estate-related business is in the doldrums.+ Developer doesn't give up,despite a massive loan issueA $40 million loan default isn't exactly what Brent Virkus had in mind when he made his initial foray into the Gulf Coast development pool two years ago.+ PODS marksmillionth milestoneClearwater-based PODS Enterprises Inc., the portable storage company, delivered its one millionth PODS container recently to Paul Johnson, a customer doing a home remodeling job in Fullerton, Calif. + Manatee business climatecontinues to sufferIn many cases, the issues facing senior exec

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 28, 2023
Managing broker hired to lead Sarasota, Fort Myers developments

ERES Cos. announced the team was expanding just eight months after opening its Sarasota location.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • January 31, 2023
Airline slashes cost of flights from Tampa

Breeze Airways is offering one-way fares as low as $39 from Tampa International Airport.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 24, 2022
Tampa software company names successor to retiring CEO

Ashish Kachru, who founded Altruista Health in 2007 and sold it in 2020, will lead DataLink Software.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 27, 2022
Fort Myers architecture firm acquires Los Angeles company

TDM Architects was founded in 1994.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 1, 2022
Atlanta builder to debut its first townhome community in St. Petersburg

PulteGroup Inc. is set to open Shoreline, its first townhome community in St. Petersburg, Florida, on July 9.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 12, 2022
Tampa hotel management firm names new vice president

Kiel Lombardo, a 20-year veteran of the industry, has been promoted at McKibbon Hospitality.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 26, 2022
Bradenton museum launches search for a new CEO

After 15 months, the museum announced Hillary Spencer is no longer in the role.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • November 11, 2022
Chef brings acclaimed Chinese restaurant concept home to Tampa

Lauded by Bon Appetit magazine and Guy Fieri, Hales Blackbrick, created by Richard Hales, is set to open Nov. 15.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 17, 2004
Clearwater Bar Meets New Superintendent

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 4, 2010
Bethlehem Baptist Church building for charter school

Faced with growing space needs, Bethlehem Baptist Church in Sarasota is looking to relocate its pre-school, but its ultimate development plans will also affect more school age kids.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 12, 2009
Florida investor group buys Spring Glade apartments

Elster/Rocatica LLC purchased the 78-unit Spring Glade apartments off 22nd Street north of Fletcher Avenue at a foreclosure auction for $915,000.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 4, 2011
Orlando developer plans ranch apartments

Winter Park-based P.A.C. Land Development Corp. purchased 24 acres in Lakewood Ranch for $3.47 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 27, 2010
Insurance firm buys First State Bank building

The Stanley Dean Insurance Agency Inc. purchased the 6,292-square-foot First State Bank building for $850,000.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 10, 2010
Alico changes creditors

The LaBelle firm ended terms with Farm Credit, and will now work with Rabobank.

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  • December 14, 2010
Shareholders will decide on deal

Tampa-based telecommunications firm Syniverse Holdings Inc. made headlines this fall when it received a $2.6 billion buyout from The Carlyle Group.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 4, 2010
One industry's pain is another's gain

A new survey from commercial real estate giant CB Richard Ellis confirms what many in the industry already know.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 13, 2010
Naples Elks Lodge buys Tamami buildings

The Naples' Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks purchased two retail buildings for $900,000.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 9, 2010
Transwestern Investment buys 210 Watermark

Transwestern Investment Co. purchased the 210 Watermark apartments for $18.5 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 6, 2010
QLTY maintains boost, names new SVP of sales

As Quality stock holds high, the company adds a senior vice president.

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