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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 23, 2022
Redevelopment of Bath & Racquet Club receives final approval

The revamped site will include 256 condos and 65,448 square feet of light commercial space alongside new pickleball and tennis courts.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 1, 2019
To Renovate or Sell?

Developers & Associates Corp. of California has been planning to renovate the Baymont Inn & Suites in Sarasota as part of a conversion to the Four Points by Sheraton brand, but the company now is considering selling the property to focus on other projects

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 16, 2022
Las Vegas investor buys Sarasota RV parking facility

Elite Motorcoach Storage has sold for $12.3 million, and the buyer plans to keep it as RV storage site.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 2, 2011
Former Trump Tower site sells for $2.5 million

Tampa investment group Brownstone Tampa Partners LLC purchased the 1.67-acre site of the proposed Trump Tower Tampa and the adjacent 67,487-square-foot CapTrust building for $5 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 25, 2010
Financial Web site hires new leader

Richard Jenkins started his career in print newspapers more than three decades ago, long enough to make him one of the industry's dinosaurs.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 4, 2010
Invenio Capital buys U.S. 41 development site

Fort Myers-based Invenio Capital and two New York investors purchased 18.24 acres of vacant land for $2.1 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 17, 2011
DeBartolo, Encore Housing buy Windemere's Summerport Village

A joint venture of Tampa-based DeBartolo Development LLC and Encore Housing Opportunity Fund LP has acquired Summerport Village, a 196-acre mixed-use development site in Windermere.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 5, 2020
Builder buys land for $2.8M, plans new townhome community

Boca Raton-based Sobel Co. has several other Southwest Florida projects.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 8, 2022
Construction of Whole Foods Market begins in St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg's first Whole Foods Market has taken a big step toward becoming reality, as permits have been obtained and demolition of the site's existing structures has begun.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 2, 2010
Nfinanse sings the greens

Nfinanse, the reloadable prepaid card provider just rolled out a music Web site, nFinanSeMusic.com, devoted to free downloads of up-and-coming artists.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 4, 2010
Perez scouts apartment sites

Just because condo construction has ended doesn't mean Jorge Perez is standing still.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 27, 2011
Triad to manage eBay ads

Triad Retail Media will manage all of eBay's on-site display ads.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 21, 2013
Canada's Scugog Development buys Siesta Lakes development site

The price equated to $61,610 per acre.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 19, 2018
School board and developer to swap land

The Manatee County School Board and Lakewood Ranch developer Schroeder-Manatee Ranch are planning a land swap in Lakewood Ranch.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 26, 2016
New life for old storage facility: exclusive luxury homes

Site and underground utility work has begun at Gasparilla Island's Hill Tide Estates.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 23, 2017
Hospital acquires industrial building for $11.8M

Moffitt Cancer Center purchased the former home of an electronics manufacturer.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 27, 2014
Wal-Mart buys Chevy dealership for Seminole Heights Supercenter

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. purchased the 11.35-acre former Abraham Chevrolet automobile dealership site in east Tampa for $4.95 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 19, 2015
Fort Myers Beach marina site sells for $2.1M

A former owner returns to a property he lost during the real estate collapse.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Anastasia Dawson |
  • December 13, 2025
Report: Small business optimism up, but worries percolate

An increase in business owners expecting more sales was the biggest factor in the increased Optimism Index.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • November 27, 2015
Ride into the future

A sports facility with a big role in tourism plans to spend $1 million on improvements. The plans face some potential hurdles, including a lack of high-end hotel rooms.

  • Strategies
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