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1 day ago | 
businessobserverfl.com | Louis Llovio
GroundGame.Health in Tampa is laying off 97 employees — blaming a change in how the government in Washington, D.C. approaches health care.
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1 day ago | 
businessobserverfl.com | Louis Llovio
The Tampa Bay Lightning have a signed a multiyear media deal that will bring the team’s games to some Gulf Coast viewers free. The team has reached an agreement with E.W. Scripps Co.’s Scripps Sports allowing games to be shown over the air. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, and a Scripp’s spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.
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2 days ago | 
businessobserverfl.com | Louis Llovio
A federal judge has sentenced John Alberto Stolard to prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a scheme that involved filing quit claim deeds for properties he did not own. The 48-year-old Wesley Chapel resident was ordered to serve one year and one day and must forfeit $747,388.30. Stolard pleaded guilty in October.
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2 days ago | 
businessobserverfl.com | Louis Llovio
A federal judge has sentenced John Alberto Stolard to prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud in a scheme that involved filing quit claim deeds for properties he did not own. The 48-year-old Wesley Chapel resident was ordered to serve one year and one day and must forfeit $747,388.30. Stolard pleaded guilty in October.
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2 days ago | 
businessobserverfl.com | Louis Llovio
Downtown Clearwater, a long-desolate district that’s ever-so-slowly rebounding, is getting two new businesses. The businesses will be in what’s being optimistically marketed as the Historic Cleveland Street District, a nod to what once a vibrant downtown that lost its luster decades ago and has since been struggling to reemerge.
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3 days ago | 
businessobserverfl.com | Louis Llovio
Legacy at Oriole Park, a 34-acre Fort Myers industrial complex, has been sold to EQT Exeter, the same company that paid $92 million about a year ago for a neighboring industrial park. This time, the Pennsylvania real estate investment trust paid $87 million. Legacy at Oriole Park is a 500,000-square-foot development made up of two 250,000-square-foot buildings with 32-inch clear heights, 72 trailer parking stalls and bay spacing.
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5 days ago | 
businessobserverfl.com | Louis Llovio
A Toronto-based developer is planning to build a combined commercial and industrial park on 10 acres at 25411 Old 41 Road in Bonita Springs.
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1 week ago | 
businessobserverfl.com | Louis Llovio
Entrepreneur/companyThe Ronto Group was founded by Anthony Solomon’s father, A. Jack Solomon, in 1967. The senior Solomon was a homebuilder and the firm was based in Toronto in those early days. It discovered Florida pretty early on its lifespan, though, opening an office on the state’s east coast and developing projects there between 1977 and 1986. That’s before, like a lot of Canadians, it moved south for good — settling in Naples, where its headquarters are today.
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1 week ago | 
businessobserverfl.com | Louis Llovio
Coconut Point is, again, adding to its retail roster. The Estero open-air mall just announced a list of new tenants that are scheduled to open throughout the year. The headliner is Nordstrom Rack, the off-price retail division of Seattle retailer Nordstrom. The chain currently operates six Nordstrom stores in the state and 19 Nordstrom Racks. In addition to the Coconut Point store, there are plans for one to open in Lakeland later this year.
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1 week ago | 
businessobserverfl.com | Louis Llovio
The two residential properties, both in the Port Royal neighborhood, show luxury properties are still doing well.
