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Business Briefs
COLLIER COUNTY — Home builder Toll Bros. Purchased 133 acres in Hacienda Lakes near Naples, where it plans to develop a community with about 420 residences.
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY — Aero Simulation, which makes flight simulators for military and commercial aircraft, will move to a 60,000-sq.-ft. facility in Hillsborough County, creating 40 jobs and investing $7.5 million. The Tampa company employs about 60. » Gladstone Land of McLean, Va., bought a 70-acre strawberry farm in the county for $1.7 million.
LAKELAND — Florida Polytechnic University unveiled plans for a wellness and aquatics center to open next summer.
LUTZ — Mettler Toledo, a supplier of scales and instruments for industrial uses, is moving operations from Hillsborough County to Lutz, where it plans to employ 500. The deal includes $5.5 million in incentives from Pasco County.
SARASOTA — Tech entrepreneur Andre Spivey bought an American Basketball Association team for the Sarasota-Bradenton market, calling it the Sarasota Manatees. » Sarasota-based Carlson Studio Architecture opened an office in Seattle.
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA — Newsroom employees at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and the Lakeland Ledger have voted to unionize.
ST. PETERSBURG — New York investment firm TGM Associates paid about $94 million for Bay Isle, a 582-unit apartment complex on 50 acres near I-275 and Gandy Boulevard. » Sembler Co., a St. Petersburg-based development firm, opened an offi ce in Raleigh, N.C.
TAMPA — United Airlines will offer daily non-stop service to San Francisco from Tampa International Airport starting in February. » Panama Citybased Linea Peninsular signed a deal with Port Tampa Bay to launch a container shipping service to Mexico. » Management consulting firm McManis & Monsalve Associates of Erie, Pa., is expanding to Tampa and opening an office for Monsalve Tool & Design, a subsidiary that provides machining services.
TAMPA BAY — A pilot ferry program connecting the downtown waterfronts of St. Petersburg and Tampa received final government approval. HMS Ferries was to begin running daily ferry service across Tampa Bay in November, with one-way fares costing $10.
Obituary: George Michael Billiris
“Without a sense of humor, you’re out of luck. There’s a bright side to all of it, regardless of how bad it really is.”
Sponge diver George Michael Billiris died in September. He was 89. [“Icon,” FloridaTrend.Com, April 2016].
