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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 4, 2013
Free to grow

John Giglio hasn't owned his own business for too long, but he's picked up on one key success tactic: Always innovate.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 8, 2014
Flipped Model

Raising capital for a commercial real estate project is a universal obstacle. An energetic young entrepreneur thinks he has a solution.

  • Industries
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • April 18, 2014
Get Creative

Stickboy Creative has been there, done that. So now it can help clients with complex technology challenges.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • February 26, 2016
Relationships count

The commercial real estate industry is consolidating into ever-bigger players, but one firm shows how boutiques can capture a market.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Barry Friedman |
  • May 8, 2015
Loan harvesters

Entrepreneurs Brian Philpot and Rob Harper plowed their real estate profits into an agricultural lending business. It was a wise move.

  • Industries
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 17, 2024
Prosecutors seek second contempt charge, jail for AeroVanti founder

Maryland prosecutors are asking a federal judge to force Patrick Britton-Harr to produce documents related to his finances or incarcerate him until he complies.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • April 7, 2025
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

$16 million Polk County land sales pace transactions.

  • Transactions
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • June 30, 2025
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

An $81 million multifamily complex sale in Lakewood Ranch leads the week in transactions.

  • Transactions
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • December 17, 2025
Sale of former Big Top Live property canceled amid complications

The owners of The Parrot Patio Bar & Grill found issues during their due diligence period and backed out of buying 975 Cattlemen Road.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • October 7, 2005
Calendar of Events

The Calendar of Events is available free of charge.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 28, 2017
Be our guest

A real estate-focused couple has dipped into the hospitality side of the industry, with a customer-first approach.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • February 24, 2006
Building the American Dream

Israeli-immigrant Roni Elias turned his assistant painter's job into a regional, family-owned home builder and developer. From its Naples roots, Elias and his brother are expanding up the Gulf Coast.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 14, 2008
Life in the Clouds

Cloud computing, putting computer networks overthe Internet, is slowly catching on as a way for Gulf Coast companies to lower tech costs. But document security and bandwidth needs may slow its growth.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Amanda Postma |
  • June 1, 2023
Virginia developer buys seven parcels in downtown Sarasota for $32M

The seven parcels are zoned for residential and retail uses.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • July 27, 2023
Swedish investor pays $321M for eight IMG properties in Bradenton

The land was bought as part of Stockholm-based EQT's purchase of the famed IMG Academy.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 30, 2023
Publix Super Markets pays $7.25 million for Tampa grocery store

Lakeland grocer bought the Hillsborough Avenue property where one of its stores has sat since the 1970s.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 12, 2022
Clearwater office portfolio sells for $18 million

A local investment group buys the five-building development just north of St. Pete-Clearwater Airport.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 5, 2022
Seminole employees to lose jobs as company outsources services

Nearly 60 jobs in Pinellas County will be cut as a Dallas-based company partners with a global manufacturer.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 11, 2022
Layoffs hit third Pinellas County company in three weeks

A pharmaceutical manufacturer is laying off Largo employees after being sold to a South Carolina company

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 3, 2009
City sells Ed Smith to county

The City of Sarasota has officially sold the 53-acre Ed Smith Stadium spring training facility at the southwest corner of 12th Street and Tuttle to Sarasota County for $1.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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