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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 6, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: The banks with the six largest deposit slices in Florida generally met earnings forecasts. Fred Karl, Tampa city attorney, is ready to move on State House Speaker Johnnie Byrd, R-Plant City, offered some encouraging words

  • News
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 14, 2003
Coffee Talk

This week's items: A chance for 'affordable housing,' but will they take it? Do Gulf Coast residents love ice hockey that much? McKay explains constitutional amendment Hugh Culverhouse Jr. selling 900 acres?

  • News
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 23, 2003
The Owner's Role

A building owner should determine early his involvement and then follow the chain of command.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 11, 2003
YP: Marc Blumenthal of Intelladon Corp. Tampa

USINESSProfile: Tampa's Intelladon Corp. offers online learning to corporate customers, government organizations and non-profits. Company founder Scott Gostyla designed the company's main asset, a software program called Advanced Learning Platform, whic

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 10, 2009
Government Digest

A look at governmental action from around the Gulf Coast

  • Florida
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • September 10, 2009
Got a loan

Banks are lending money and Tom Kennedy is here to prove it. The Fort Myers entrepreneur explains how he got a $2 million loan recently from KeyBank to acquire a competitor.

  • Finance
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • September 24, 2009
Waiting room

Medical-office space, a commercial real estate niche once considered immune from economic shocks, is feeling this downturn and the uncertainty of Obamacare. Medical specialties continue to grow, however.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • February 4, 2010
Owners in distress

Commercial real estate defaults are increasing and brokers and bankers are preparing for a growing number of foreclosures on office buildings, shopping centers and warehouses. Bankers have been slow to take back property.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Jay Brady |
  • January 7, 2011
Beyond Bennett

State Sen. Mike Bennett exceeded all expectations when he became the Senate's number two leader, but it wasn't the first time this sailor went above and beyond the call of duty, and not likely to be the last.

  • Florida
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • September 17, 2010
Government Digest: Sept. 17 - Sept. 23

A look at governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Dan Ping |
  • May 6, 2011
Driving Revenue

Millennium Luxury Coaches continues to grow revenue every year, despite the Great Recession. The company's success is based on keeping debt low and anticipating changes in the industry.

  • Strategies
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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • May 13, 2011
Arching Achievement

Since taking the helm of his family's McDonald's franchise, Blake Casper has seen local sales grow throughout the recession. Getting things right and meeting customer needs are his keys to success.

  • News
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • July 29, 2011
Masters of Their Atoll

A father-and-son team finds success in the movies and on the Naples waterfront. It pays to be diversified in the marine business.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 16, 2011
Stress management for turbulent times

How to excel through uncertainty by effectively managing your emotions.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • September 13, 2013
Good Swing

Unusual construction projects are still hard to spot in this economic recovery. The Alico Family Golf Center in Lee County shows why.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • February 26, 2021
Momentum builds at massive shopping mall transformation

Already more than $100 million in, a New York developer has big plans for the reinvention of a Tampa shopping mall.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Elizabeth Djinis |
  • April 8, 2021
Lawn and garden business plants seeds for succession

While the second generation is under 30, seeds are being planted for an eventual handoff of the business.

  • Strategies
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • May 27, 2021
Entrepreneur sees the light on virus elimination

Forward-thinking entrepreneur makes pandemic shift to create a device that can eliminate pathogens. Up next: more market need-based shifts.

  • Industries
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 9, 2021
County plans to kill tax that funds local EDC

Commissioners will stop tax funding to the EDC by 2024 and reallocate economic development incentive fund monies to the general fund budget

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 16, 2021
Entrepreneur chases demand: he helps people be kickass husbands

Matt Hoffman comes to his new business from personal experience.

  • Entrepreneurs
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