The Plasencia Group, a Tampa-based hotel investment consultant, has reinstituted its Distressed Hotel Advisory practice, similar to services provided in past recessions to owners and lenders of financially troubled hotels and resorts. ...more

January 15, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - How does one glimpse silence? Thanks to Land O' Lakes artist Bradley Arthur, you don't have to wonder. ...more

January 8, 2009

BayWalk had oodles of potential when it debuted in 2000, just like its Tampa contemporaries Centro Ybor and Channelside Bay Plaza. ...more

January 4, 2009

Jon Brown is finishing a room addition - and that's all the work in the pipeline for his 41/2-year-old construction company, which used to build custom homes. ...more

December 22, 2008

A longtime Colliers Arnold executive who helped build the company into one of the Bay area's leading commercial real estate firms is leaving Florida. ...more

December 19, 2008

A longtime Colliers Arnold executive who helped build the company into one of the Bay area's leading commercial real estate firms is leaving Florida. J. Patrick Duffy, Colliers Arnold's president, has resigned after 25 years with the Tampa-based real estate firm. ...more

December 18, 2008

The Tampa Bay area office market continued to feel the impact of the general economic downturn from July through September as the overall vacancy rate increased, according to a report by commercial real estate consultancy Colliers Arnold. ...more

November 14, 2008

The idea that "If you build it, they will come" may have worked for Kevin Costner, in the '80s, in a movie, but in the harsh reality of today's economy, that philosophy needs to be amended to something like, "If you build some of it, maybe they will start thinking about coming." ...more

November 6, 2008

Interested in buying a prime restaurant location on the cheap? At least seven Bennigan's or Steak & Ale locations, shuttered after the chain filed for bankruptcy, are on the market in the Tampa Bay area - four of which will be auctioned off as part of a nationwide sale next month. Some commercial real estate experts think some of the properties could sell for as little as 30 cents on the dollar. ...more

October 18, 2008

Interested in buying a prime restaurant location on the cheap? ...more

October 17, 2008