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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 17, 2022
St. Petersburg restaurant holding company makes two acquisitions

WOWorks adds Barberitas Southwestern Grille and Zoup! Eatery to its portfolio of brands.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • January 16, 2023
Tampa law firm promotes four attorneys to shareholders

Hill Ward Henderson now has 72 partners and a total of 115 attorneys.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 19, 2023
Tampa Bay Rays, local credit union partner for charities

Starting in May, every hit the team gets means $78 for nonprofits around the area.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 19, 2022
Maryland PR and influencer firm expands to Bradenton

The company already has multiple Florida clients.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 24, 2022
Medical supply company adds another round of layoffs in Lakeland

Stryker will lay off more than 60 workers in August as part of a plan to cut 485 job.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 11, 2022
Reinsurance industry surges in annual premiums

A group of American reinsurance firms posts year-over-year growth of nearly 27%.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 16, 2022
Tampa office building sold to Zeno Office Solutions founder

A nearly 162,000-square-foot building on Hillsborough Ave. brings $23.7 million — $169 per square foot.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • September 12, 2022
Lakeland apartments part of almost $92 million multifamily portfolio sale

An unnamed buyer bought four low-income developments across the state and will continue to operate them as such.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • October 20, 2022
Retired Bucs star teams up with specialty grocer for sweepstakes

Two lucky Floridians will win Sprouts Farmers Market’s 'Grill with the Gronks' competition.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 4, 2022
Trust company pledges $1M donation to provide disaster relief

Goodwill Manasota will receive the bulk of it to provide gift cards and Goodwill vouchers to residents.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 8, 2022
Apartment owner sees Naples property appreciate 400% in 10 years

The owners of a Naples apartment complex sold to a Dallas investor for $60.1 million more than what they paid in 2012.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • December 1, 2022
Hillsborough selling nearly 62 acres already zoned for housing

In an unusual move, the county issued a press release announcing the large parcel of land was for sale in one of the fastest growing parts of the region.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 11, 2023
Longtime Sarasota insurance agency acquires Tampa firm

The Lovinger Insurance employees and owner will stay on through the transition.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 10, 2009
More burdens on Florida taxpayers?

Protecting the costliest homes in the riskiest parts of Florida helps protect all the taxpayers of Florida

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 14, 2010
Avanti buys Palmetto's Corvus site

Winter Park-based investment group Avanti Investment Advisors purchased the 211 acres of vacant land east of Riviera Dunes and south of U.S. 301 in Palmetto for $24 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 4, 2010
Gov. Crist's Ouija board budget

State Rep. Trudi Williams, R-Fort Myers, has some words of advice for Gov. Charlie Crist and his proposed $69.2 billion budget: “The first thing I would tell Gov. Crist is 'forget about it.'”

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  • November 6, 2009
Eola, others buy International Plaza Four

IP4 Owner LLC, an investment group composed of Richard Corbett of the Concorde Cos. and Jim Heistand, chairman of the Orlando-based real-estate investment firm Eola Capital, purchased International Plaza Four from Crescent Resources for $25 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 13, 2009
Not so newsy: Bank needs capital

There was a time when regulatory orders, strictly written memos of understanding and other command-style communications from regulators to bankers was top news.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 25, 2009
Tidewell Hospice buys Lakewood Ranch building

Sarasota-based non-profit Tidewell Hospice purchased the two-story building housing its Lakewood Ranch office for $6.55 million. The purchase price equated to $179 per square foot of building space.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 22, 2010
Denver rail woes cheer Tampa voters

Another light rail debacle may be making the 58% of Hillsborough County voters who voted down the 1% transportation sales tax feel like they dodged a bullet.

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