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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 16, 2007
Icahn boosts pressure on WCI

Icahn says he'll offer $22 a share for WCI Communities. Meanwhile, three major hedge-fund investors disclose new stakes in the Southwest Florida homebuilder.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 22, 2003
Newsmakers

Dick Risner is a new superintendent at J.L. Wallace Inc., a Fort Myers-based general contracting company.

  • Strategies
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  • By Jay Brady |
  • July 2, 2010
Government Digest: July 2 - July 8

A look at governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

  • Florida
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 4, 2011
Gulf Coast Week: Mar. 4

Regional business news at a glance.

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 24, 2020
Company finds Sarasota office market is tight

PropLogix discovered that for growing firms in need of office space in Sarasota, options are few. It went with a building outside of downtown to meet its needs.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • September 28, 2018
Market Spotlight: Collier County office market

Collier County's office market is performing better in 2018 than counterparts in Southwest Florida in terms of rental rates, vacancy and absorption

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 11, 2014
Corporate Report

Raymond James Bank board adds TD Bank, Kemper Securities execs; HedgePath Pharmaceuticals secures funding for drug trials; Lakewood-Amedex stock offering raises $5.5 million for antimicrobial testing and more corporate news.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • March 10, 2025
Report: Major League Baseball wants Tampa Bay Rays sold

A story in a prominent sports publication says the league and owners want Stuart Sternberg to sell the team to someone who will resolve long running stadium issues.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • May 18, 2018
Real estate heavy hitter leads company with focus on vision

Judy Green has spent three years in the real estate industry, currently heading up Premier Sotheby's International Realty.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • August 26, 2005
Coffee Talk (Tampa)

It's a new world: Walt Smith, court administrator for the 12th Judicial Circuit that includes Manatee and Sarasota counties, is among the objectors to a long-awaited report that supports making court records available on the Internet.Alpert: You got me: Through illness and divorce, retired Tampa lawyer Jonathan L. Alpert says he has remained true to himself and his profession.This sand's gold: A recent sale on Indian Rocks Beach shows just how much investors prize beachfront on the Gulf Coast.Another warning: Pinellas Park bank analyst Richard X. Bove pooh-poohs affordability indices, which show skyrocketing home prices far outpacing tiny increases in personal income within hot real estate markets around the country.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • April 17, 2006
Coffee Talk

HMA: Bond sale? What bond sale?: Just two days after Naples-based Health Management Associates said it would sell $400 million worth of bonds, the hospital company abruptly canceled the sale.Film fest puts on a profitable show: Sarasota residents love movies, and they spent the cash to prove it the last few weeks.Boston developer scouts for deals from Tampa to Naples: Evidence of Southwest Florida's growth has popped up on the radar of The Davis Cos., a longtime Boston development company that has developed more than $1 billion worth of real estate in 30-plus years.Demand goes up, rents rise: The Tampa Bay area's office market moved up to fourth place in 2006 on the Marcus & Millichap ranking of the country's major commercial real estate markets, thanks to a strong local economy spurred by company expansion and corporate relocation.In memoriam: Coffee Talk was saddened to hear about the death of Brent Craven, the former CEO of a Tampa online education company and one-time St. Petersburg resident.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • February 12, 2010
New management

Three veteran Naples money managers are betting that the turmoil in the financial services industry makes this the perfect time to launch their own firms in the wealth-management capital of the Gulf Coast.

  • Industries
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 25, 2010
Commercial property takes valuation hit

Lee County Property Appraiser Ken Wilkinson says commercial-property valuations will take another double-digit percentage fall this year.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 11, 2010
Sun Hydraulics delivers results

Net income rose 450% overall relative to last year's first quarter.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 28, 2011
Pacifica Properties buys units in Allegro Palms condominium

San Diego-based Pacifica Properties purchased 204 units of the 432-unit Allegro Palm condominium complex for $10.03 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 20, 2011
Northwood Plaza sells for $37.62M

Boston-based AEW Capital Management LP purchased the 200,000-square-foot Northwood Plaza in Clearwater for $37.62 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 8, 2020
Airport executive named to national 40 under 40 list

Michael Hushek has been in the aviation industry for 15 years.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 20, 2020
County chosen for COVID-19 remote jury trial pilot program

Five different methods of remote jury trials being tested across Florida.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 10, 2019
Shipping company hires chief people officer

BlueGrace Logistics, a Riverview, Florida-based shipping company with more than 600 employees and 10,00 clients nationwide, has named Justin Pinchback chief people officer.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • June 17, 2019
Chevy dealer ranked among top 60 in the country

General Motors names Estero Bay Chevrolet to its 2018 Chevrolet Dealer of the Year list.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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