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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 24, 2015
Naples: The billionaire's coast

Chuck Ardezzone and the film crews at ITZ Studios are at it again with a new reality TV show.

  • News
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  • By Steven Benna |
  • November 13, 2023
Top commercial real estate transactions for Oct. 3-9 in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A $95 million land deal leads the week in transactions.

  • Transactions
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 7, 2023
In midst of major expansion, Aldi opens Lakeland store

The discount grocer looks to add about 20 stores in Florida in 2023 after it opened or remodeled 17 in 2022.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 11, 2012
Fly Boys

The economy nearly wrecked the ambitious plans executives had for Rectrix, a private jet service. Four years later the center is a hub of aircraft activity.

  • Strategies
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  • By Observer Staff |
  • August 6, 2021
Master-planned community continues sales surge

Ave Maria in Collier County sells 400 homes in first half of 2021, on pace to triple sales from two years ago

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 13, 2019
Region’s largest public company to be acquired for $5.4B

Tech Data Corp. has agreed to be acquired, for $5.4 billion, by an affiliate of funds managed by private equity firm Apollo Global Management Inc.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • For Subscribers Only
  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 4, 2018
Well known real estate attorney, partner switches firms

Prominent area real estate attorney Tom Luzier is moving from Dunlap & Moran P.A., where he had been a shareholder, to Williams Parker, where he will be a partner. Luzier has successfully closed more than $1 billion in transactions to date over the past

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 22, 2014
Broker seeks national attention for niche lease

Tampa area commercial real estate broker David Sobelman, who literally wrote the book on triple net lease investments, is about to take the niche investment approach to another audience.

  • News
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 18, 2024
Retail boom hits Estero as Publix and a shopping center open

Thursday is a busy day in Lee County as the grocer and a developer open in the 2,400-home Verdana Village planned community.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • July 27, 2018
Cancer care collaborations benefit patients and providers

Lee Health joins other Southwest Florida health care systems in forming cancer care collaborations

  • Health Care
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • October 2, 2020
Legal Zoom: Law firms make big changes to please the virtual court

Tampa Bay area law firms are adapting to the COVID-19 era, when legal proceedings have been moved onto virtual platforms like Zoom and with most trials delayed indefinitely.

  • Law
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • August 1, 2005
Real Estate Briefs (Tampa)

Miami investment group buys 362 rental apartments

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 24, 2010
Guess housing starts, guess recovery

Residential construction will likely pull the Gulf Coast region out of the recession, so the monthly national housing-start estimates are a closely watched economic indicator.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 22, 2011
Interstate Business Park sells for $4.9 million

Tampa-based Cardinal Point Management LLC purchased the seven-building Interstate Business Park for $4.9 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 18, 2017
Condo sale closes at $7.7M, sets new mark

Six of the eight waterfront condo residences at AQUA have closed.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • December 1, 2017
Waypoint snags financing for Starkey Ranch apartments

Waypoint Residential has obtained $39.35 million in construction financing for its planned Point at Starkey Ranch apartment project in Odessa, according to property records.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • February 3, 2006
Independents Band Together

The Sarasota-Manatee Originals, all independently owned restaurants, may be competitors, but they're pooling resources to battle the fine-dining chains that are moving in.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • July 10, 2015
What we pay is none of Obama's business

The president's new rules for overtime will be another unnecessary intrusion into the relationship between employer and employee. Enough of this dictatorship.

  • Opinion
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 12, 2013
Toilet Travails

Going from invention to market success can be one of the most difficult tasks in business. One local company injects humor into the process.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 2, 2006
For the Love of Boats

The Eggebrecht family's passion for fishing and boating sparked the idea for a custom boat building business that focuses on Panga-style crafts known for their fuel efficiency and shallow draft.

  • Entrepreneurs
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