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  • By Steven Benna |
  • December 16, 2024
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A vacant land sale in Naples for $10.6 million paces transactions.

  • Transactions
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • March 10, 2025
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A $72 million multifamily deal paces the week in transactions.

  • Transactions
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • September 16, 2024
Freedom Boat Club acquires 13 franchise locations

The boat club based in Venice acquired 13 locations in Florida as well as rights to develop along the coastline.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Jay Heater |
  • July 23, 2025
Orlando developer to build light industrial complex in Lakewood Ranch

Tavistock's two buildings on Lakewood Ranch Boulevard will offer 93,022 square feet to area businesses.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 27, 2022
The David and Jerri Hoffmann story: From no hot water to 2,000 employees

Couple were keynote speakers at 2022 NextGen Speaker Series kickoff event.

  • News
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • September 9, 2024
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

$244 million over three apartment deals in Hillsborough pace transactions.

  • Transactions
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 10, 2024
Early Milton reports: Some areas begin to dig out

Long recovery road post-Hurricane Milton is underway.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • September 4, 2025
USF signs $85M contract with US Army for defense innovations

The five-year, $85 million contract will support research and innovations in a wide range of fields that support national security, including cybersecurity, biotechnology and energy sciences.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • October 9, 2025
Donald Carlson, 33

40 Under 40 winner Donald Carlson is founder of Tweeds.

  • Class of 2025
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 20, 2024
AeroVanti pilots sue for back pay, allege exec compared startup to Apple

The troubled Sarasota air service company is facing a class action lawsuit from employees who say they've not been paid since June.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 5, 2003
Extradordinary & Obscure

Despite a regulatory jungle, Theresa Schefstad took a strange animal - a thrift owned by a securities brokerage - and tamed it. Raymond James Bank now wants more commercial loans.

  • Opinion
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 8, 2023
How to get out of a commercial lease

Legally exiting a commercial real estate rental agreement isn't, for the most part, easy. But there are ways.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • October 15, 2009
'Does anybody care?'

Florida lets its state-owned property insurer raise rates to become more fiscally sound, but it won't allow private companies to do the same. That's not the way to fix the state's property insurance problems, says Citizens' chairman.

  • Industries
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 4, 2010
Bonus, Baby

Kristen Horler never thought her burning desire to lose pounds gained in pregnancy would be the ticket to a new business. But it was, and now she has ambitious growth plans.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Alex Walsh |
  • January 29, 2010
Beyond bean-counting

Not every small business needs a full-time chief financial officer. For those that could use just a little direction, there's Brooke Evans.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 9, 2010
Survival Trot

Gulf Coast nonprofits are getting pounded by the recession. But one is surviving by embracing for-profit business principles.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 11, 2013
Change Agent

Stories of retired executives discovering new passions later in life abound on the Gulf Coast. But a former federal prosecutor has a unique chronicle.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • March 29, 2013
Recover the ball

Syd Kitson, the developer who orchestrated one of the biggest deals on the Gulf Coast during the boom, sees new opportunities across the state.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 8, 2013
Right Place

Timing has been a key ally in Sean McHale's banking career going back to 2002, when he took over a wealth management division in the boom. He now runs a division of SunTrust Bank on the Gulf Coast.

  • Strategies
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  • By Denise Kalette |
  • April 12, 2013
Bold steps

Tim Bogott, CEO at TradeWinds Island Resorts, has made a deal that could transform his beachfront property.

  • Strategies
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