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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • December 31, 2023
Real estate industry insiders dish about the upcoming year — good and bad

A look at how four significant issues, from consumer spending to artificial intelligence, will impact the region.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 23, 2009
Sole Proprietor

A college student turned tragedy into triumph by maintaining some core business principles.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • November 21, 2014
Plumb for success

A small plumbing-supply business in Cape Coral offers lessons in overcoming adversity to achieve success.

  • Strategies
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 10, 2025
$30M redevelopment heads to former Wimauma mobile home park

In the week's top commercial real estate news, Allegiant still pays for a Port Charlotte resort, a warehouse project comes to Tampa, and Ruskin apartments are getting refinanced.

  • Florida
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  • By Michael Hinman |
  • March 27, 2015
Publix domain

Florida's grocery giant has cash to spend, and lots of it. It aims to turn that pile into a force of company-owned stores and centers.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • February 25, 2011
Towering Success

Once marked as a potential victim of the condo bust, the Towers of Channelside avoided the auction block and are on their way to being sold out.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 23, 2024
Pawn shop, commercial lot for sale in red-hot North Port

In the week's top commercial real estate news, Fort Myers Beach pier is coming back bigger, Tampa luxury tower is finished, and Sarasota apartments sell.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 9, 2004
They Broke the Jinx

Atlanta developer Bob Hatfield and Bradenton real estate investor Jan Smith broke the Sandpile jinx with basic business sense and a little luck.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • May 12, 2025
Lee nonprofit finds success in finding jobs for young people with autism

An effort to help young adults on the autism spectrum find employment pays off for all parties. The nonprofit behind it hopes more is to come.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 8, 2010
Gulf Coast Week: Oct. 8 - Oct. 14

Regional business news at a glance.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • August 26, 2005
Health Care Isn't Capitalistic

In this letter to the editor: Health Care Isn't Capitalistic: But it's in Sarasota taxpayers' best interests to act capitalistic and patronize their tax-supported hospital.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 15, 2008
TO WATCH (Lee-Collier): George Ghanem

George Ghanem's party palace is almost ready. By this summer, Ghanem's company will have moved into its new corporate headquarters in Fort Myers. The 60,000-square-foot, $8-million building will house the company's commercial laundry, a showroom and will have enough parking so that employees can load 10 delivery trucks at a time with tents, chairs and all the equipment for a party.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • October 17, 2019
Shane Costello, 36

Shareholder, Hill Ward Henderson

  • Class of 2019
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • April 2, 2009
How Miami has lessons for the GM Rescue

Here in Florida it's difficult to feel the emotions, fears and depth of the implosion of General Motors and Chrysler and the firing of General Motors' Rick Wagoner.

  • Opinion
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • August 10, 2018
Cybersecurity sector bear hugs Tampa region

With business and so many other aspects of our daily lives increasingly moving online and into the cloud, it’s never been a better time to be part of the cybersecurity industry. That’s especially true for companies and workers in the Tampa Bay region.

  • Technology
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 22, 2020
More than 10,000 apartments, even in the pandemic, remain in the works

Some multifamily developers like what they see in a post-pandemic marketplace.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 23, 2018
Trade secrets lawsuit dismissed against prominent company

Tervis President Rogan Donelly says the company looks forward to moving on.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 11, 2019
Partnership leads to hundreds of employees receiving eye protection

Eye Center and Sun Hydraulics teamed up to provide safety glasses for Sun's manufacturing workers.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 29, 2018
Tampa beats back all comers in key business relocation metric

The cost of living in the Tampa metro area in the first quarter of 2018 was nearly 10% lower than the national average, according to data from the Tampa Hillsborough Economic Development Corp. With a national average index of 100, Tampa’s COLI is 90.1, ac

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 22, 2016
To make America great again

On the eve of the Republican National Convention, several prominent Florida economists, including Christopher Westley of Florida Gulf Coast University and Marshall DeRosa of Florida Atlantic University, urged Donald Trump to consider seven policies to make “America great again.”

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