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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 2, 2012
Nostalgic chain seeks growth

Poodle skirts and jukeboxes are on the way back to the Gulf Coast with 5 & Diner, a Worcester, Mass.-based restaurant chain.

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  • June 18, 2021
Sykes Enterprises sold in $2.2 billion deal

Sykes, one of Tampa's largest companies, sold to Miami's Sitel Group in all cash deal

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • November 22, 2021
High hopes for holiday shopping season

Retail groups predict this holiday shopping season will make merchants jolly.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 4, 2022
Investor buys two Clearwater hotels, transforming them into apartments

A joint venture between Miami investment and Mexico City private equity firms has bought two properties near airport.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 18, 2020
TerraCap sheds Atlanta apartments

TerraCap's move to sell its Atlanta apartment holdings comes three years after $116 million acquisition of four complexes containing 1,100 units.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 1, 2020
Area insurance company acquires Medicare-focused firm

Clearwater, Florida-based AmeriLife Group LLC has acquired Senior Healthcare Direct, a Palm Harbor company that operates a consumer-facing, Medicare insurance marketplace under the name Medicare Bob. 

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 11, 2020
Cybersecurity firm elevates pair of executives to co-president role

Clearwater, Florida-based KnowBe4, a leading provider of security awareness training and a widely used simulated phishing platform, has promoted two top executives to a co-president role.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • April 24, 2020
Retailer tells landlords it will suspend rent payments

The Gap Inc. has six flagship locations on the west coast of Florida.  

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • May 20, 2020
Real estate executive longs for more social interaction

Ian Black has also kept up a regimen of swimming, golf, biking and tai chi.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 20, 2020
Developer proposes second luxury residence tower on waterfront site

City staff has offered preliminary feedback on plans for an 18-story building near U.S. 41 and Fruitville Road.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • June 7, 2019
St. Pete tech firm makes French connection

Marxent, a St. Petersburg, Florida-based tech firm that creates interactive virtual-reality displays for home furnishing retailers like Macy’s, has found a strategic partner in Europe.

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  • February 23, 2022
Atlanta company acquires Sarasota wealth management firm

The move is expected to grow the firm's wealth division.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 18, 2019
Intelligent growth for AI-powered business software firm

Tampa, Florida-based tech startup CoLabs has been on a fundraising tear, raising $6.2 million from investors to support IntelAgree, its Software-as-a-Service platform that can automate contracts, saving businesses time and money.

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  • November 8, 2019
Maryland company buys Tampa office and industrial complex

A Timonium, Md.-based company acquired the Park 6 office and industrial complex in Tampa, which had once been part of the Tri-County Business Park

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • January 11, 2019
Ready to wear: Developer adopts high-tech bracelet for visitors to amenity

Metro Development Group awarded $10,000 to Ibrahim Allam, a recent University of Tampa, Florida, graduate who created an innovative piece of wearable technology for visitors at the Crystal Lagoons amenity at Epperson.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • February 22, 2019
Summit Splashes into St. Petersburg

Summit Real Estate has purchased five buildings in two St. Petersburg business parks in a bid to expand its investment footprint to Florida.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • March 11, 2019
Overseas firm working with area accelerator nets $1 million investment

Israeli medical device company UC-Care, part of the Tampa, Florida-based Florida-Israel Business Accelerator’s 2018 cohort, has landed a $1 million investment from Florida Funders, a group that backs early-stage tech companies in Florida.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 22, 2019
Construction begins on condo-hotel project

SoCe Flats in downtown Naples could run buyers more than $1,000 per square foot. Building will combine street-level commercial with 18 residential units.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • December 23, 2016
Bowden exits SVN for Michael Saunders

Sperry Van Ness | Commercial Advisory Group senior investment adviser Gail Bowden, one of the Gulf Coast's top producing commercial agents, has jumped ship after more than seven years at the Sarasota-based commercial real estate brokerage firm.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • February 3, 2017
Tampa area brokerages shake up

A trio of top Tampa commercial real estate brokerages have kicked off 2017 with some high-level personnel moves.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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