Some bright spots punctuated the gallows humor at a recent convention of shopping center executives: A few pizza restaurants, dental practices and discount retailers are expanding aggressively on the Suncoast. ...more

February 20, 2009

The Indianapolis-based appliance and electronics chain HHGregg is finishing its first local store in the Market Square shopping center near Interstate 75 and Bruce B. Downs Boulevard in New Tampa. It's also scouting other potential store sites around the Bay area, but hasn't yet committed to any other new stores other than one in Sarasota. Its closest store to the area at the moment is in Lakeland. ...more

February 11, 2009

Some bright spots punctuated the gallows humor at a convention of shopping center executives today: A few pizza restaurants, dental practices and discount retailers are expanding aggressively in the Tampa Bay area. ...more

February 4, 2009

Some bright spots punctuated the gallows humor running through a convention of shopping center executives today: A few pizza restaurants, dental practices and discount retailers are expanding aggressively in the Tampa Bay area. Those with plans to grow took the spotlight during the gathering of shopping center owners, retail real estate brokers and retailers at the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay in Rocky Point. The sponsor was the International Council of Shopping Centers. ...more

February 3, 2009

The holiday sales figures are in and, as expected, things were ugly at the nation's stores. ...more

January 9, 2009

The house was ravaged - its floors ripped, walls busted and lights smashed by owners who trashed their home before a bank foreclosed on it. Hidden in the wreckage was an abandoned member of the family: a starving pit bull. ...more

January 30, 2008

etailer will be opening its Avon Park store later than originally expected, while the much anticipated opening of Olive Garden in Sebring might be a bit sooner than scheduled. The Wal-Mart store and Olive Garden are among several businesses in Highlands County that will be opening or relocating in 2008. Although it was originally believed that Wal–Mart would open early next year, the store is now scheduled to open during the summer, according to Michelle Azel, spokeswoman for Wal-Mart. ...more

December 30, 2007