• Alternate Text
  • Loading

  • Newsletters
  • Podcast
  • Public Notices
  • 40 Under 40 Nomination
  • Mobile App
  • Subscribe
  • Login
  • News
  • Strategies
  • Entrepreneurs
  • M&A
  • Leadership
  • Regions
    • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    • Manatee-Sarasota
    • Charlotte-Lee-Collier
    • Florida
  • Industries
    • Business Support
    • Commercial Real Estate
    • Residential Real Estate
    • Development
    • Finance
    • Food-Beverage
    • Healthcare
    • Manufacturing
    • Retail
    • Sports–Entertainment
    • Technology
    • Travel-Tourism
  • Insights
  • More
    • Advice
    • Transactions
    • 40 Under 40
    • Big Book of Business
    • Subscribe
    • Opinion
    • Executive Diversions
    • Change-Makers
    • Reprints
  • News
  • Strategies
  • Entrepreneurs
  • M&A
  • Leadership
  • Regions
    • Regions
    • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
    • Manatee-Sarasota
    • Charlotte-Lee-Collier
    • Florida
  • Industries
    • Industries
    • Business Support
    • Commercial Real Estate
    • Residential Real Estate
    • Development
    • Finance
    • Food-Beverage
    • Healthcare
    • Manufacturing
    • Retail
    • Sports–Entertainment
    • Technology
    • Travel-Tourism
  • Insights
  • More
    • More
    • Advice
    • Transactions
    • 40 Under 40
    • Big Book of Business
    • Subscribe
    • Opinion
    • Executive Diversions
    • Change-Makers
    • Reprints
  • Newsletters
  • Podcast
  • Public Notices
  • 40 Under 40 Nomination
  • Mobile App
  • Subscribe
  • Login

Results for:

  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Adam Hughes |
  • October 28, 2005
2005 Technology Innovation Awards Introduction

The Gulf Coast Business Review present our annual 2005 Technology and Innovation Awards. Read our introduction for free.

  • Entrepreneurs
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 24, 2010
Firm upgrades device with help from NASA

When Clearwater-based Advanced Protection Technologies needed help developing a new type of surge protector, they looked to the skies for help.

  • News
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 3, 2016
Prof launched Free Market U

When he became the first economics professor at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers 19 years ago, Bradley Hobbs was on a mission to create a department that would be a bastion of free market principles.

  • News
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 16, 2019
Fifth on first

Fifth Avenue South has seen a surge in new tenants.

  • News
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 6, 2008
Calendar of Events

View events from around the Gulf Coast for free.

  • Strategies
  • By Stephen W. Hall, CEBS CPBS, CSFS, CHRP |
  • May 14, 2021
What has your Broker done for you During the Pandemic?

What has your Broker done for you During the Pandemic?

  • Insurance
Sponsored Content
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 13, 2015
Venice golf course to get $2.5M renovation

The Venice Golf and Country Club has had other upgrades in the last five years.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 6, 2015
Charity wins grant to build in New Port Richey

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul has named the 30-unit complex after its founder, Frederick Ozanam.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 18, 2019
Auto dealership opens new $30M facility

Courtesy Toyota of Brandon, an Asbury Automotive Group company, has opened a $30 million, 91,000-square-foot new facility at 9210 E. Adamo Drive in Brandon, next to the site of its old dealership building.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 25, 2014
Florida CFO brings smack talk to NY

It's not yet a rivalry to match the Tampa Rays vs. the New York Yankees, but a battle of words is bubbling between Sunshine and Empire State officials over economic development.

  • News
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 3, 2003
Free Press

This week's items: Grand opening of Tampa ChamberBancshares of Florida Inc. enters Tampa marketFlorida Hospitals place second in national rankingFlorida Magazine Association meets, awards, in Sarasotat

  • News
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Brian Hartz |
  • March 31, 2023
National jeweler expands to Tampa with new showroom

Brilliant Earth, which specializes in ethically sourced fine jewelry, has leased space at the Midtown Tampa mixed-use development.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 26, 2010
Toll booth coming up? Just keep on rolling

There's good and bad news for motorists along the Lee Roy Selmon Crosstown Expressway through Tampa.

  • News
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Jean Gruss |
  • August 27, 2010
Boom-Time Caution

Cape Coral was one of the hardest-hit areas of the Gulf Coast, but one commercial builder based in Lee County's largest city survives. Compass Construction holds lessons for others in these tough times.

  • Industries
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 12, 2013
Corporate Report: April 12

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

  • Strategies
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 11, 2025
Report: Tariffs to add $10K to cost of Florida house, $7K to cars

Florida TaxWatch says the Sunshine State's exports and imports are at risk, and both consumers and businesses will be hit.

  • Florida
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 23, 2009
Did jobs actually increase or decrease?

Most published versions of Florida's latest unemployment numbers will quote 8,500 as the number of jobs “lost” from September 2009 to October 2009. However, 20,800 more individuals were working in October than in September.

  • News
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 8, 2013
Port Manatee bushels big corn shipment

Latest delivery is the port's third in the last eight months from South America.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 4, 2012
Federal regulators seek to sack more bankers

Super Bowl-winning QB Jim McMahon is the latest former community bank board member targeted by federal regulators.

  • News
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 31, 2017
M/I Homes targets massive south Sarasota project

M/I Homes is the latest builder to embrace the West Villages.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
« 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 »
The best of Business Observer, delivered directly to your inbox

Get the latest business and commercial real estate news from Tampa Bay to Naples.

Sign Up

Contact

  • 1970 Main St.
  • Third Floor
  • Sarasota, FL 34236
  • Phone: 941-362-4848

Extra, Extra!

  • Newsletters
  • App
  • Podcast
  • Big Book of Business

more

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise
  • Distribution Points
  • Jobs
  • Privacy Policy
  • Subscribe
  • Accessibility Options

sister sites

  • Your Observer
  • Jax Daily Record
  • Orange Observer
  • Accessibility Options
  • Copyright © 2026 Observer Media Group Inc., All Rights Reserved
×
3 Articles Remaining!
Not a Subscriber?

Click here to Subscribe

Already a Subscriber?

Click here to Login

Sign Up for Daily Brief

Start your day with the top Gulf Coast business news you need to succeed.

Sign Up for CRE Central

Stay updated with a weekly roundup of big deals, market shifts and the people shaping commercial real estate from Tampa Bay to Naples.


Smart People Subscribe.

Turn headlines into game plans. The playbook’s right here.
Subscribe to the Business Observer today.

Subscribe Now