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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 8, 2010
Changes coming to Colonial Bank signs

Branch Banking & Trust Corp. will begin changing the signs at former Colonial Bank offices throughout the Gulf Coast region this weekend, leading up to what will likely be its biggest, if not highest, installation — the lettering atop Tampa's 36-story Park Tower.

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  • March 11, 2011
Gov. Scott spotlights job creators

Everyone knows Gov. Rick Scott has almost a one-track mind for his term. In fact, every time he delivers a speech, he's sure to mention the number: 700,000.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 20, 2013
Sunshine state lags nation in productivity

Metropolitan regions across Florida scored poorly on a new report that analyzes employee productivity and employee growth during a three year-period, 2009-2011, when the economy was supposedly in recovery.

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  • May 24, 2013
Economy survey considers the good and bad

The amount of Florida business owners who plan a capital investment in the next six months is up dramatically, according to a new survey, from 47% last fall to 68% this spring.

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  • January 18, 2013
Freight firm seeks to add some weight

Jim Brosious kicked off 2013 in a serious anti-recession kind of mood.

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  • March 13, 2013
Who's ready for Google Glass?

If you haven't heard of Google Glass, now's the time to learn.

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  • March 22, 2013
Plant City's Southside sold, new owners plan expansion

The price equated to $113 per square foot.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 28, 2013
Silky smooth: Interior design firm sales sprout 20%

Lux-Art Silks International seeks more growth at a trade show in April.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • October 7, 2011
Sarasota's JCI Jones moves into spotlight

Sarasota-based JCI Jones Chemicals has generally avoided the media spotlight, locally at least, even though the company has the makeup of a star.

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  • June 2, 2011
New leaders emerge in Tampa

The Tampa Bay Partnership named its CEO Direct class members for 2011.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • August 16, 2013
Quay sale offering details released

Sales brokerage HFF lays out the details of the approvals up for sale with the former Sarasota Quay site.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • August 19, 2013
It's lonely at the top

The isolation of a CEO is crystallized in a new Stanford University survey.

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  • September 12, 2013
CRE exec takes ownership stake at Starling Group

Brian Kennelly has run LWR Commercial Realty for seven years.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • July 26, 2013
RV firm leases former Sarasota convention center

California-based La Mesa RV Center expands to the Sarasota-Bradenton market with a lease for 120,00 square feet.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • August 1, 2013
Biotech entrepreneurs to pitch investors

The Sunshine State's biotechnology industry has grown 60% in five years.

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  • June 28, 2012
SRQ Airport asks locals to stop the leakage

Local officials at the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport are feeling, well, a little overlooked these days.

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  • September 3, 2012
Chico's hits 52-week high

Investors are starting to take note of Chico's FAS, recently bidding the company's shares to 52-week highs.

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  • February 11, 2011
Project flourishes with foreign flavor

A once stalled $34-million waterfront marina redevelopment project in Charlotte County has started to heat up.

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  • January 2, 2012
Firm injects hope into manufacturing

Jim Westman gave up his investment banking career in Atlanta in 2009 to return to Sarasota, the town he was raised in, so he could run a company that made something.

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  • September 1, 2021
National eviction moratorium has soft impact in region

Tampa's evictions rate is off slightly since before the pandemic.

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