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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • January 20, 2006
Real Estate Briefs

Meridian, Hudson Realty Buying Winn-Dixie WarehouseGroup purchases apartment next to BroadwayNeal buys Palmetto Pines Golf CourseSarasota Investors Bank Lehigh Acres Land for BuilderMcGarvey plans commercial buildings in Fort MyersCENTEX HOMES BUYS LAND AT LELY RESORT

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 17, 2006
Diversified Interests

Jes Santaularia has been called a developer, property owner, hedge-fund manager, CPA, Realtor and restaurant owner. The self-proclaimed renaissance man says he looks for opportunities that are profitable, yet 'entertaining.'

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 22, 2004
Sold on Service

The Argus Foundation is honoring Ted Morton, former owner of Mortonis Market, with a Lifetime Achievement Award for nearly 50 years in Sarasota business.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 11, 2003
Tourism Upswing

Southwest Florida is hot again. There were more visitors to Lee County in July than in same month prior to 9/11.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • August 27, 2009
Government Digest

A look at government action from around the Gulf Coast

  • Florida
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  • By George Rauch |
  • January 13, 2012
Continuous stagnation

Capital goods purchases by businesses continue to improve. That's good. Orders for consumer goods, however, remain flat.

  • News
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 4, 2012
Bob's World

After a career that spanned four decades and both coasts, Bob Gault says a chief executive, in order to find sustainable success, must give up one thing: ego.

  • Strategies
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • March 12, 2021
Value add hunters find slim pickings

With markets nationwide surging amid protracted growth cycle, investors seeking "value-add" buys are having to look harder to find properties capable of big gains.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Elizabeth Djinis |
  • April 1, 2021
Backed by $23 million, startup tackles pharmacy sector

Tech health care firm seeks to capitalize on the digital transformation of how people take prescription medications. It’s scored some early victories.

  • Strategies
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • April 11, 2021
Water quality company looks to make a big splash in new markets

Area manufacturer is on the cusp of a big year, with new markets on the horizon and a glistening new headquarters to chase the work.

  • Industries
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  • By Joe Bardi |
  • May 5, 2021
Marine and mineral extraction company dive into legal squabble with Mexico

A payday surpassing $1 billion — entangled in a multinational legal mining dispute — is in the offing for a small business that got its start in diving for treasure in long-lost shipwrecks.

  • Strategies
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • December 16, 2021
Homebuilding exec lands new gig with aviation businesses

Staying nimble helps fuel Elliot Mintzer's success.

  • Strategies
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • March 13, 2020
Naples capital firm helps its portfolio of companies with hands-on strategy

Hands-on approach goes a long way for firm investing some $150 million in promising companies.

  • Finance
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 12, 2020
FCCI reverses course, fires CEO for alleged battery on police officers

The termination of Craig Johnson, who has maintained he will be vindicated, comes one day after he was granted a leave of absence.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • September 20, 2019
Urgent Undertaking

Longtime community bankers, despite some obstacles, believe the timing is right to invest — significantly — in the industry’s future.

  • Finance
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • January 25, 2019
Business slow? Try taking a Nickel Ride

One part mobile marketing agency, one part eco-friendly transportation service, The Nickel Ride, headquartered in Fort Myers, Florida, has grown rapidly as communities seek new and improved ways to move people and boost commerce year-round in downtown bus

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • February 22, 2019
Master class: Restoration firm takes big step up with new property

With the help of a $2.5 million loan from American Momentum Bank, Master Restoration — a 10-year-old Clearwater, Florida, firm that helps residential and commercial property owners across Florida and the Southeast recover from fires, floods, hurricanes an

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • July 27, 2018
Small, former post office home to big dreams for new cafe

Ann Michelle Stoltzfus has plans in the works for a new restaurant — Postal 98 Cafe — in the former U.S. Post Office in the Pinecraft community of Sarasota.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 29, 2016
Commercial real estate Q&A: Dan O'Berski

Dan O'Berski formed Trinity Commercial Group in 2011, after more than a decade in the commercial real estate brokerage industry with companies such as CBRE Inc. and Naples Realty Services Inc.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • November 22, 2023
FGCU institute on positive aging aims to boost senior industry workforce

Given more than 500,000 people over age 60 live in Southwest Florida, the region is fertile ground to study — and support — seniors.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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