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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • March 2, 2006
Condo Craze: Lee/Collier Top 10

The Southwest Florida construction industry keeps on motoring. Condos aredriving the growth.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • March 17, 2006
Coffee Talk

Another Sarasota 'original': Crisis management experts and media flacks are easy to find today, with the 24-hour news cycle churning out a new celebrity, well, every 24 hours.PCM'S newspaper stocks continue to lag: When McClatchy Co. agreed to buy rival newspaper chain Knight Ridder for about $6.5 billion last week, it appeared Naples-based Private Capital Management had scored a victory for shareholders.Freedom to expand: Followers of Gerald L. Anthony's career won't be surprised that the veteran Manatee County banker wants to grow his latest creation - and grow it fast. Miva's future still in question: Fort Myers-based Internet company Miva has hired Deutsche Bank Securities to explore a possible sale of the company, but the subject was barely mentioned in a March 13 conference call with analysts announcing fourth-quarter results.Will anybody follow WaMu?: Washington Mutual Inc. has presented customers in Florida and elsewhere with seven more reasons to drop their loose change into a new account at the Seattle thrift.Commercial market cools off, rents heat up: A big player in Tampa commercial real estate is predicting the market will even out over the next year and property owners will look to reap the benefits.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 9, 2005
Option Play

Some shareholders may not realize the impact on their investments when community banks cut their CEOs in on the stock action.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 6, 2005
Costly Problem$

Raymond James plays down its regulatory run-ins. But the SEC isn't letting slide what it claims are supervisory deficiencies at the St. Petersburg firm.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 14, 2008
Against the flow

Building a residential real estate brokerage firm in this economic environment isnot for the faint of heart. But Art Darmanin is confident the market will come back.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 14, 2008
State of Selling

Building a residential real estate brokerage firm in this economic environment isnot for the faint of heart. But Art Darmanin is confident the market will come back.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 16, 2008
Dear Diary

The 2008 journal entry for one ofthe largest insurance firms on the Gulf Coast is all about survival. Revival could be on the horizon by 2010.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 28, 2008
Cigar city, Cigar man

Eric Newman is a link to Tampa's past, as head of the city's last family-owned cigar company. He is fighting Washington and the anti-smoking crowd for his company's survival.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 12, 2009
Elder Law

As the population ages and people live longer, an emerging field of law finds some attorneys going beyond estate planning to take a more holistic approach.

  • Law
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  • By Observer Staff |
  • February 16, 2009
The Great Divide

Trial lawyers and corporate attorneys have not mixed at most law firms for decades. But they have worked legal pad by legal pad at venerable Fowler White in Tampa. Until now. Robert Banker is leading a band of trial lawyers to a new firm while Rhea Law remains chairwoman of Fowler White.

  • Law
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 2, 2004
Year Ahead

An informal survey of Tampa Bay area law firms shows lawyers are optimistic about 2004. More hiring is expected.

  • Law
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 16, 2004
Largest Jury Verdicts

Juries, upset over corporate scandals such as Enron, awarded $13.8 billion for fraud in 2003.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 16, 2004
Who Owns This Gem?

When Shannon Hotel Group acquired the Longboat Key Club, it had the help of some of Wall Street's savviest and most endowed investors. Meet the owners.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 6, 2004
Risk Management

How the lawyer who runs the world's largest municipal law office saves New York City millions of dollars.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 12, 2003
Ordinary Loss or Fraud? (Tampa edition)

A former stockbroker who sold to Tampa's business elite says large losses should be blamed on the market, not him.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 22, 2003
Coffee Talk

This week's items:Entrepreneurial slump over?Fraud detectionMCC offers security technology certificateLegal appealThe missing linkOne more dig at the anti-bridge crowdBanker of the Year Nomination

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 9, 2004
Batter Up

A retired pro baseball pitcher-turned-lawyer challenges Hillsborough County's stateattorney with a few curveballs.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 17, 2003
Architect, Lawyer, Builder, Creator (Sara/Mana Edition)

George Mazzarantani started his career as an architect. Then he took his creative talents to the field of law. Now he's applying both to Sarasota's economic future.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 9, 2004
Bridging the Experience Gap

Clearwater's mayor bases his campaign for county clerk on stints in the public and private sectors, discounting bad publicity from a botched construction project in his city.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • March 4, 2010
One Big Litter Box

Environmentalists' federal lawsuit to force designation of 3.1 million acres of Southwest Florida as a critical habitat for the Florida panther could cost businesses and governments tens of billions of dollars and thousands of jobs.

  • Florida
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