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  • By Jay Brady |
  • November 19, 2009
Empty Promise

By next year, $19 billion is projected to have been spent to fully implement class size reduction in Florida since 2003, despite a lack of quantifiable evidence to support the policy.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 15, 2009
Get the money before it's gone

Sarasota-based FCCI, which provides property and casualty insurance to businesses, is known around the region as a top company for which to work.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 13, 2009
Tech start-ups recognized

Five Tampa Bay-area technology entrepreneurs won support from the STAR Technology Enterprise Center, or STAR TEC, this week and will be getting office space and branding support from the organization.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 16, 2009
Tech start-ups boosted by STAR TEC

Five Tampa Bay-area technology entrepreneurs won support from the STAR Technology Enterprise Center, or STAR TEC, this week and will be getting office space and branding support from the organization.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 18, 2010
Tampa fund gets $4 million from state

Florida's economic development officials would love to attract a bunch of high profile, high wage, “high-tech jobs” to the state. But oftentimes, their effort to do so ends up more laughable than laudable.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 1, 2010
Gulf Coast to see more Geckos

The recession has delivered an unforeseen boost to Mike Gowan and Mike Quillen, founders of the popular Gecko's Grill & Pubs in Sarasota and Manatee counties: They get approached almost daily about potential business opportunities.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 14, 2011
Wanna Wheego?

Anyone in the market for an electric car that can seat two passengers comfortably and get up to 100 miles on a single charge won't have to burn too much gas to find one.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 4, 2012
Men of steel: Niche industry flexes strength

Building industry executive Michael Lassner says even though Florida, “on paper,” is still stuck in a recession, things are getting better.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 20, 2017
Startups: dive into the tank

An area of the Gulf Coast often overlooked for startup capital — Charlotte County — will get its turn in the spotlight later this year.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 27, 2017
Vue Sarasota Bay facing delay

One of downtown Sarasota's most significant commercial real estate projects of the current real estate cycle is facing a labor-induced delay that will push back completion by months.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 5, 2017
Clean up

Dry cleaning firm making a sweep.

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  • By Michael Hinman |
  • June 5, 2015
THE CREATIVITY ISSUE: Schifino Lee Advertising + Branding

Although the market for organic food products already is strong, Schifino Lee Advertising + Branding sought to connect that particular consumer market with community-supported agriculture through its client, Sweetwater Organic Farm.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 31, 2015
Lab forecasts consolidation

While many in health care lament cutbacks in government reimbursements, one Fort Myers laboratory says the cuts provide opportunities for acquisitions.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 4, 2015
Where are my pants?

Someone should tell Chico's to get the bananas off the boat before more bad luck hits.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 1, 2006
Commercial RE Briefs

First Tampa Development buys landCapital Realty Investors buys building in Hidden River ParkDirected Capital Resources' company buys four Taco BelInvestors pushing to annex Pine Island parcelsCroci North America buys land for future expansionDevelopers buy Bonita Beach property for Bellezza ShoppesRetailer Marco Destin buys St. Armands storeDevelopers buy S.R. 70 land for Lion's Gate DevelopmentBenderson Development revisiting Park of CommerceGold Coast Eagle Distributing completes purchase

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • April 29, 2011
More mush from the wimps; they blinked

When Florida Gov. Rick Scott delivered his first State of the State address in March to the full Legislature, he urged lawmakers: “Don't blink.”

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  • By Jim Stinson |
  • September 5, 2023
Another California company moving to Tampa Bay

Lynx Automation, which provides software for property owners and hotel operators, plans to hire 50 people in Tampa Bay.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 29, 2004
Calender of Events

The calendar of business events in Sarasota and Manatee counties is available free of charge.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 23, 2011
Chico's, HSN 2010 profits rise

Chico's annual profits grew 66% over the year; at HSN, profits rose 36%.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 20, 2013
This is the big idea

few local big-idea people, backed with some seed money, want to solve an continuous economic development issue in Sarasota: Brain drain.

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