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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • June 19, 2006
Builder Beware

Taken alone, 2006 would be a good year for many home builders. But the past three years set a high - and now unreachable - standard. Incentives and price cuts are the first defense.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 25, 2022
Kentucky craft distillery expands distribution to region

New Riff Distilling, a Kentucky-based craft distillery, has expanded distribution of its products to Tampa Bay and the Gulf Coast of Florida.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Laura Lyon |
  • May 15, 2025
HSN updates layoff numbers, 375 people to be let go in July

Almost three times the number of spring layoffs are expected to occur, Home Shopping Network's parent company QVC announced.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 20, 2008
Coffee Talk

+ Dust off the robes,and start foreclosingThe rise in foreclosures in Lee County has been so large that retired judges are getting called up for duty, says Lee County Clerk of Courts Charlie Green. + Entrepreneurial superstarssearch continuesTwo successful entrepreneurs in Sarasota - one being one of the most successful businessmen on the Gulf Coast - are trying to spread the build-a-business love. Local bank surprise:Free moneyMost bankers aren't fond of handing out cash on the street to total strangers.+ Golfing for charity,building a businessIf you hear a little music, a little laughter, a blue tent and beer when you pull your golf cart up to the next hole, you may have discovered a new Gulf Coast business started by Clearwater entrepreneurs Pam Delaney and Justina Hopkins.+ Tampa Bay becomesa championship hostSomewhere, maybe everywhere, there are hoteliers cheering.+ Christmas shoppingfor a cancer cureWith the holidays approaching, Tampa's Moffitt Cancer Center and Mall Networks, a provider of merchant-funded loyalty shopping concepts, have come up with a way to marry shopping and fundraising for cancer research.AUGUST AUTO SALESWhat the data shows: August taxable sales of autos and accessories include the sale of new and used cars, repair shops, auto-supply stores and taxable sales at gasoline stations.Waiting in the wingsThe softer economy has touched just about every Gulf Coa

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 16, 2025
National developer buys 17 acres in Sarasota for 336 apartments

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Brandon apartment complex sells for $76.25 million, a Fort Myers apartment community is almost complete, and a Naples retail property is back on the market.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 13, 2013
Bill could help - and hurt

The law of unintended consequences in politics is at play with a provision of a catchall economic development bill Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed in late May.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 26, 2011
Kauzlarich discusses AK-47 giveaway

Gino Kauzlarich, who runs a Sarasota credit card processing firm that caters to independent merchants, now offers new clients a voucher toward an AK-47 assault rifle.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 2, 2011
Scott swoops up Swoope

Mississippi's Gray Swoope is the new president of Enterprise Florida.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 15, 2013
Verizon Wireless names new Florida leader

Mariano Legaz will lead one of the telecommunications company's largest regions.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 6, 2015
Chico's CEO: Too much email

Is there such a thing as too much promotion of your brands?

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • August 12, 2016
Priatek sale may spur upgrade

If a deal goes through and Feldman Equities LLC and Tower Realty Partners acquire the 28-story Priatek Plaza in downtown St. Petersburg, look for the pair to sink millions of dollars into improving the city's tallest building.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 21, 2004
Coffee Talk (Tampa edition)

This week's items: Attorneys not as trustworthy as clerks?Creative Tampa Bay unveiled a study entitled: "The Young and the Restless: How Tampa Bay Competes for Talent."Clearwater attorney's gang takes 2004 Oyster Roast Cup

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 31, 2017
Agency collects $23.75 million in tourist development tax

Visit Tampa Bay's bed tax collections eclipsed the tourist agency's 2014 performance.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 4, 2013
Joel Chaffins, 34

President, Owner and Operator, No Place Like Home Care

  • Class of 2013
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • May 12, 2026
Naples property including former L.L. Bean compound sells for $37M

Spanning more than an acre, the property encompasses the block of Fifth Avenue South from the beach to Gulf Shore Boulevard.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 22, 2025
Ohio firms lead $15M investment in Naples medical tech company

Catalyst OrthoScience has now raised at least $35 million in the past two years.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 30, 2007
Coffee Talk

In Lee and Collier counties, there's talk of a tax on commercial builders to pay for affordable housing.That's despite the fact that Collier County commissioners voted the idea down recently. The county staff had proposed imposing a one-time tax on new construction of commercial buildings, but commissioners tabled the issue a few months ago. Still, Coffee Talk hears it might resurface.he good news is that the cost increases builders and developers were seeing from suppliers slowed considerably in the last half of 2006. The bad news, says Simonson: The decrease is a temporary quirk, adding that "by the end of 2007, materials costs could be rising again at a 6% to 8% rate, with wages rising at a 5% rate."Now, with the recent slowdown in residential activity, it appears that free or subsidized real estate trips might be making a comeback.Did Sarasota-based condo developer Don Bevins figure out the mystery of time travel?Coffee Talk thought he might have, especially after hearing the developer and his company recently closed on 37 condo contracts in just two months for the Grande Oaks Preserve, a 30-acre gated community with a projected 125 residences being built on DeSoto Road, two blocks south of University Parkway and two miles west of Interstate 75. Is the worst behind for Chico's FAS?Some analysts are starting to think the stock of the Fort Myers-based women's retailer could rebound.

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  • By Lou Lasday |
  • June 25, 2010
Got Detail Dump?

Invest vision and passion when excitement is at its peak. Rocket the 'new hire's' launch with inspiring orientation.

  • Strategies
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  • By Andrew Warfield |
  • April 12, 2024
Federal government denies SRQ airport land sale to New College

FAA nixes the $11.5 million deal for 31 acres of the West Campus that the college leases from the airport. Airport officials disagree with the decision and will "pursue further discussions on this matter."

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 16, 2021
Over 50% of homes in sustainable community sell during pre-sale period

Hunters Point, from homebuilder Pearl Homes, will have 86 single-family, zero-energy homes.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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