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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 3, 2010
High Hopes

A Gulf Coast inventor has learned many lessons in a two-decade effort to turn his creations into mass-market triumphs. He hopes 2011 will be a breakout year.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Matt Walsh |
  • January 20, 2017
At 20, we're just getting started

We'll adapt and reinvent for your needs. But we'll always hold on to one conviction: Capitalism is great.

  • Opinion
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 8, 2023
Developer gets $26 million in financing for Tampa cold storage project

Two hotels changing hands and an apartment complex selling top the week's commercial real estate news.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 7, 2023
Six months after Ian, furniture store destroyed in storm reopens

The floods and devastation left by Ian pushed the partners, and some employees, of Badcock Home Furniture & more to the brink. But a sense of normalcy is creeping back.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Bloomberg News |
  • October 9, 2009
Re-centralizing Harvard

Harvard's Faust plots a course for a 'unified' school to deal with the financial crisis.

  • Strategies
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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • August 20, 2010
Driving the Bus

Valerie Harwell, a former insurance manager, has taken on new duties as president and CEO of The Omnia Group. It's a company she has been familiar with from the start.

  • Strategies
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • September 2, 2024
City of Sarasota, developers to deliver 600 affordable housing units

With several projects in the pipeline, the city has earned a Local Action Award from the Florida League of Cities for its attainable housing density bonus program.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • September 2, 2005
Traveling Man

Lawrence Hutson led the design and launch of Travelocity.com in 1996. Now, the software visionary is taking the online travel industry to the 'next generation' with Nexgen Travel Distribution Inc.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 8, 2014
Hills and Thrills

An ambitious project could transform a piece of Gulf Coast farmland into a 1,000-acre outdoor adventure park — three times bigger than Busch Gardens.

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 12, 2021
$510 million transformational resort project gets a reboot

After an isolating 17-month delay, the Sunseeker Resort Charlotte Harbor is starting up again.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 5, 2023
Food distributor to build 500,000-square-foot Plant City center, hire 200

Sysco Foods will begin building the distribution center early next year and expects to open it in 2025.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 4, 2011
Equity LifeStyle Properties buys Lake Village park

Chicago-based real estate investment trust Equity LifeStyle Properties purchased the 238-site Lake Village mobile home park for $23.77 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 24, 2018
Former cigar company HQ sells for $4.7M

Franklin Street negotiated the sale of a 7.6-acre site in Tampa, which formerly housed a cigar company, for $4.7 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 8, 2016
Big-time win for Sarasota tech firm

The platform will be integrated site-wide at 1,011 patient beds.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 6, 2017
What if?

The statewide boom in tourism, a jobs machine for the region, has to end sometime, right?

  • Strategies
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 7, 2011
Kinder, Gentler

Even Rex Jensen's admirers use words like crusty and bristly when they describe the accomplished developer. Jensen's success, however, is based on much more than being tough.

  • Industries
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 19, 2019
Prominent medical center CEO resigns amid conflict of interest claims

Dr. Alan List has been with Moffitt Cancer Center since 2003, and CEO since 2012.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 12, 2013
Whistleblower to get $4 million for exposing kickbacks

Dr. Alan Freedman formerly worked at the Tampa Pathology Laboratory.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 18, 2018
Planning official has his 'mad as hell' moment

Planning official in east Manatee County laments Manatee County Planning Commission's cavalier attitude.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 13, 2015
Tampa Ironman organizer fined $2.8M for lottery

World Triathlon Corp. made a $10,000 profit for every slot it chanced off for a trip to a world championship event in Hawaii, officials say.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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