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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • March 24, 2006
Calendar

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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • October 15, 2019
Benderson Development makes second St. Armands acquisition

Benderson Development Group has purchased a St. Armands Circle building for the second time in four months. This time the company spent $6.95 million to buy the building housing the Crab & Fin seafood restaurant, Tilden Ross Jewelers and Better Homes & Ga

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • March 22, 2019
Area sports leader juggles two franchises with overlapping schedules

Tampa Bay Rays President Brian Auld is now pulling double-duty as vice chairman of the Tampa Bay Rowdies, the St. Petersburg, Florida-based soccer club the Rays acquired in October from local entertainment and property magnate Bill Edwards.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 17, 2014
Halstatt Partnership's second fund buys three commercial buildings

The combined price equated to $95 per square foot.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 21, 2007
Coffee Talk

Marco bank deal called off: Bad loans at Marco Community Bancorp scuttled a deal with the influential Barron Collier and Lutgert families in Collier County.Random acts of freebies: Free giveaways at banks are usually relegated to the coffee and donut display in the lobby. Maybe you'll land a Frisbee and a key chain, or even a lollipop, if you're lucky.D'Alessandro's body recovered: Commercial real estate brokers speculated for days about what happened to well-known Fort Myers broker Frank D'Alessandro.A treat for cookie and cupcake eaters: The wholesale bakery operation behind some of the Gulf Coast's most talked about, and eaten, cookies, muffins and cupcakes is going retail.Have lights, will sell franchises: St. Petersburg entrepreneur Nick Schriver, a 28-year-old landscape architect, started Decorating Elves three years ago as a sideline business that decorated homes for Christmas.Help us find the top tech companies Technology rules.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • July 14, 2017
Fight through

It took five years, but Sarasota businessman Marvin Kaplan was finally exonerated of any wrongdoing in a multimillion-dollar fraud case — where he was really a victim.

  • Law
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • November 18, 2025
Feds allege phony contractor scammed elderly Naples woman of $1.2M after storm

The woman continued to give the man money for repairs even after the house was sold.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 30, 2022
St. Petersburg man defrauds government out of nearly $800K, invests in stocks

Louis Thornton III was sentenced to more than three years in prison. He's currently serving his sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary, McCreary.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • August 26, 2022
Two major commercial real estate firms on the move in Tampa

CBRE and Ciminelli Real Estate Services have found new homes.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 4, 2015
Keep Florida weird, and wired

Gulf Coast area entrepreneurs recently engaged in the fifth annual Ignite Tampa Bay.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 2, 2015
Law firm takes on data breaches

Data breaches like the ones that made recent national headlines, from Target to Home Depot to Sony, might soon have a more direct impact on businesses in Florida.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 6, 2024
Businessman convicted of blowing COVID funds on gambling debts

A 54-year-old Tampa man faces up to 20 years in federal prison after being found guilty by a local jury.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • July 2, 2025
Sarasota man pleads not guilty in fraud scheme, weapons case

Seth Bloom has entered pleas of not guilty in two cases in Sarasota County Circuit Court.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • October 24, 2023
Fort Myers resident sentenced to two years in prison for COVID relief fraud

Denis Casseus was also ordered to forfeit nearly $300,000.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Jay Schlichter |
  • November 22, 2019
Prolific builder: Region succeeds because it isn't Miami

A developer looks back — to the recession, for one, when he had to let go of 85% of the staff — and forward on a host of new projects. Controlled growth is a key component of the business model. .

  • Construction-Development
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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 29, 2006
Real Estate Briefs

HMA purchases Naples Cleveland ClinicMarriott Vacation Club to buy Marco Island RadissonBradenton investor ACQUIRES retail SPACERobb & Stucky plans aggressive expansionNeal Communities buys land for River's Song communityPremier to acquire Turnberry's second phaseRanch Realty plans MEDICAL/OFFICE parkSCI buys Northbay Commerce CenterInvestment group buys Missouri CrossingsCCMS 200-1 Corporex buys Lakecrest Office

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 30, 2025
Unsealed indictment into Britton-Harr details alleged brazen $14.7M fraud

In the most revealing picture yet of what happened at AeroVanti, Maryland prosecutors lay out the scheme in court filings.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • August 25, 2006
Corporate Report

The Sembler Co. adds new logo, changes nameCheckers 'Official Burger' of FalconsSarasota Memorial doctor trail blazes with da Vinci surgeryCadence Financial completes SunCoast purchaseHillcrest Bank Florida opens first branchTeltronics' net income falls by nearly half in quarterHunter Warfield adds four new clients

  • Industries
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • January 6, 2011
This new house

Few people expected WCI Communities to emerge from bankruptcy reorganization and build homes again. But David Fry is out to prove them wrong.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 6, 2020
Luxury brokerages merge to handle hot resale market.

Both John R. Wood Properties and Vineyards Naples Properties have been in the market for decades.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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