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Southwest Fla. & Tampa Bay Business Briefs - Aug. 2008
Ave Maria University; Composite Motors; Applied Cooling Technology; FPL; Zep Construction; Publix; Baxter Healthcare; Riverwalk at New Port Richey; Harbor Inn Resort; USF St. Petersburg; Tampa Bay Rays; WellCare; SimDag-Robel; Sagicor Life Ins.
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Published on 8/1/2008
Southwest Fla. & Tampa Bay Players - July 2008
Mike Vail, Sweetbay; Gary R. Dumas, Bonita Bay Group; Kim Scheeler, Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce
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Published on 8/1/2008
Shred of Dignity for Disabled Workers
Two years ago, the Louise Graham Regeneration Center, which employs developmentally disabled adults at its St. Petersburg paper recycling plant, nearly shut down.
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Published on 8/1/2008
Tourism: Destination Tampa
$3.18 billion: visitor spending in Tampa last year, down 1.5% from 2006.
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Published on 8/1/2008
Southwest Florida & Tampa Bay Business Briefs - July 2008
FGCU; Alico; Florida Southern College; Sun Hydraulics; WCI; Tampa Bay Rays; St. Petersburg Bowl; St. Petersburg Times; Sweetbay; USF; Tampa International Airport; SW Fla. International Airport; Accent Marketing
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Published on 7/1/2008
Leading FGCU
Wilson G. Bradshaw became Florida Gulf Coast University’s third president in November amid rapid growth both in enrollment and facilities.
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Published on 7/1/2008
Southwest Florida Players - July 2008
Lana Cain Krauter, Bealls; Carey Soud, First Bank of Clewiston; Beth Lobdell, Child Care of Southwest Florida
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Published on 7/1/2008
Rauschenberg's Legacy
Captiva resident and artist Robert Rauschenberg died in May.
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Published on 7/1/2008
Radio Active
Once, George Beasley had to worry that cash-strapped advertisers might try to pay him in seafood. Today, his radio empire faces new challenges: In a multimedia world, there's much more competition for consumer's ears.
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Published on 6/1/2008
Developers Are Dumping Inventory
Opportunity knocks for real estate vulture funds.
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Published on 6/1/2008
Desal Plant Takes Next Step
Now that the plant is working, it’s attracting flocks of curious visitors, including water agency managers from around the world.
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Published on 6/1/2008
Southwest Florida Players - June 2008
Douglas Hillman, Aerosonic Corp.; Lars Hafner, Manatee Community College; Deborah A. Passerini, Goodwill Industries Suncoast
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Published on 6/1/2008
What's Mike Fernandez's Encore?
Mike Fernandez's healthcare companies have returned an average 133% a year over the last 15 years.
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Published on 5/1/2008
Event: Mayfaire-by-the-Lake Art Festival
For a quarter of a century, the Polk Museum of Art has purchased pieces at Lakeland’s annual Mayfaire-by-the-Lake art festival.
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Published on 5/1/2008
Southwest Florida & Tampa Bay Business Briefs - May 2008
Flanders Corp.; Neal Communities; Cape Coral job growth; DeSota Homeless Coalition; Hardee County Housing Authority; Forum at Fort Myers; Madden Research Loop; Big Cypress Market Place; Kitson & Partners; Sarasota Opera House; Ringling College; Tropicana
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Published on 5/1/2008
Southwest Florida Players - May 2008
Health Schiesser, WellCare; Darlene Levi, Ad Partners; Tony Souza, Habitat for Humanity Sarasota; Norine E. Noonan, USF St. Petersburg
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Published on 5/1/2008
Trauma in ER
During separate periods — a total of 10 days between mid-February and early March — St. Petersburg’s Bayfront Medical Center had to stop taking trauma patients because it didn’t have a neurosurgeon available.
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Published on 5/1/2008
Data: Southwest Florida 2008
Population, income and job statistics.
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Published on 4/1/2008
SOUTHWEST: Eye Opener
"If we're really going to be serious players about growing biotech, we need to be doing it as a megaregion really."
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Published on 4/1/2008
Mermaid Subsidies?
Buccaneer Bay accounts for most of Weeki Wachee's revenue, but its fate under state ownership remains up in the air.
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Published on 3/1/2008
Event: Sidewalk Art at Gasparilla
Gasparilla Festival of the Arts in downtown Tampa.
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Published on 3/1/2008
Southwest Florida & Tampa Bay Business Briefs - March 2008
Apollo Beach's 1-million sq. ft. open-air mall; Ave Maria Law School; Naples Children and Education Foundation; Naples Winter Wine Festival; Atlantic Blue Group; Isaac Group Holdings; Phoenix Industries; Genmar Holdings; Wellcraft Marine and Hydro-Sport;
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Published on 3/1/2008
