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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 18, 2024
Naples business park owner adding Starbucks, retail center to property

Poinciana Park, the 102,000-square-foot business park, is getting 12,500 square feet of retail space on the last available parcel.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 26, 2019
Affordable housing development with 200 units moves forward

Pearl Homes was founded by developer Marshall Gobuty.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • December 11, 2024
Collier County program gets $96,000 for housing initiatives

The Housing Alliance will use the funds to help cover move in costs, navigate the home buying process and to hire a fundraising consultant.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 6, 2025
Texas investor pays $3 million for Cape Coral dental office

The Lee County property with a long-term lease was bought by a suburban Dallas investor.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 10, 2025
Tampa financial firm adding staff, expanding space as it mulls a move

Wealth Warden Partners says it has leased additional office space as it prepares to go on a hiring spree.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 15, 2025
Rebuilding of historic Captiva Island property officially begins

The rebuilt Captiva Island Inn is being constructed with a focus on resiliency.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 3, 2025
Area broadcaster to buy Fort Myers Fox affiliate for $40M

Sun Broadcasting already has nine stations in the Fort Myers-Naples market.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 9, 2025
SWFL bank surpasses $500M in assets in five years

Cogent Bank now has six locations in the region, from Clearwater to Naples.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 8, 2025
Price slashed on premier Fort Myers Beach development site

Citing 'evolving market dynamics,' the owners of the Royal Beach Club have lowered the asking price for the beachfront property.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 6, 2026
Naples club completes first phase of $16M renovation project

Phase II of the project at the Club at Olde Cypress is scheduled for completion in the next few weeks.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 5, 2022
Naples resort sells for nearly $250 million

The Naples Grande Beach Resort sells to two LLCs with Pennsylvania, and possibly, London ties.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 13, 2025
$2 billion Tampa REIT buys facilities in Texas and Arizona

Sila Realty Trust paid $70.3 million a pair of inpatient rehabilitation facilities in Plano, Texas, and Peoria, Arizona.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • December 11, 2025
44-year-old St. Pete office building sells for nearly $9 million

Local investor bought the Tyrone Tower building in a busy commercial district in the city.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 18, 2026
Sarasota developer sells Tampa area hotel for $32 million

A suburban Boston investment firm bought the property in Brandon, its fourth hotel in the state.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 19, 2026
Clearwater insurance firm shutting office, laying off 103

Clarifying has informed the state that it is closing its corporate office and laying off the employees in April.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • May 15, 2026
Retail plaza in Naples sells for $9 million

Berkshire Place is fully leased, with tenants including Starbucks and Five Guys, among others.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 22, 2006
Top managers optimistic for 2007

The correction in the real estate market has the public's attention, but Gulf Coast business decision-makers do not see rocky times ahead. In fact, most of them expect strong growth in 2007 and are are planning accordingly.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • November 2, 2012
Burger Hustle

Tom Monaghan became the Pizza Tiger when he built Domino's Pizza into a delivery giant. Now he's aiming to do the same with hamburgers.

  • Strategies
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 26, 2007
Coffee Talk

Health Management Associates sent a clear message to the private-equity vultures circling the Naples-based hospital chain: Back off. Steven Kossoff, principal of Clearwater's Meridian Development Group paid $7.3 million for Lakeland Interstate Business Park in September 2005. It was his firm's first investment in Florida after relocating to the state from Buffalo, N.Y.t's no surprise that companies in Florida lack easy access to venture capital. Still, it's disconcerting to realize last year's VC funding in the Sunshine State dropped to its lowest level in more than a decade.The strategy of knowing your customers, making sound asset and loan decisions and going after condo association deposits might not be exciting, but in the case of Sarasota-based People's Community Bancshares, it sure has been profitable: The bank is regularly one of the top performing community banks in the Sarasota market.It wasn't a good week to be either an executive or a shareholder - or both - with Bradenton-based Coast Bank.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 13, 2007
Coffee Talk

Diamonds are elected officials' best friend, too: In terms of sheer size, Gemesis, a Lakewood Ranch-based company that manufactures cultured diamonds, is more than doubling its physical location. It's adding a 31,000-square-foot building to its campus in a corporate park near the University Boulevard exit of Interstate 75.Naples Realtors may publish monthly stats again: Every month, the Florida Association of Realtors publishes existing-home sales data for every metropolitan area.Help us find the top tech companies: Technology rules. From Tampa to Sarasota, Fort Myers and Naples, entrepreneurs have developed amazing technologies that wowed us with their ingenuity. For five years, the Review has highlighted their successes with our annual Technology Innovation Award issue.Shake it like a Polaroid: Part-time Naples resident Michael London is going to shake things up at Polaroid.Tampa CFOs, CIOs will be hiring: CEOs could use a little good news on the Gulf Coast economy.Fighting business comes out swinging: Andrew Neitlich is having a solid first round in his effort to build a franchise-based nationwide mixed martial arts league headquartered in Sarasota.Make traffic tickets go away with convenience and humor: Products claiming to save the "busy business executive" valuable time are as common as a 90-degree August day.Banker takes home statewide award: Charlie Murphy, the chief executive officer of Sarasota-based Bank of Co

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