August Table of Contents

- Inside Corner
Customer pampering is the order of the day at the Tampa Bay area Rolls-Royce dealership -- Dimmitt Cadillac, Rolls-Royce, Land Rover of Clearwater -- where you can sip tea or flavored coffees while you kick the tires. In Tampa, restaurateur Jim Cheatam is making dinner for you at his new concept, Ragin' Ribs (and he'll deliver).
- Leads & Deals
There's a ten-plex cinema being built in Brooksville in Hernando County; Post Properties is developing a $200-million urban village. Details on these and many more just-announced projects in our seven-country coverage area on the Focus Map.
- Banking & Investments
Sarasota's Microstar Research and Trading Inc. offers online security trading models called Indigo -- but its users haven't been feeling blue.
- Corporate Health Care
Traditional medicine isn't working for your aches and pains, and you'd like to try acupuncture. Well, some health care providers have found a way to offer you such services at discounted rates.
- Growth Strategies
Nine years ago four Tampa architects quit their jobs at large firms, worked out of the trunk of a car and some spare rooms for awhile, and now they're Urban Studio Architects, a fast-growing design company with a long list of major corporate clients.

- It's Not Your Father's Radio Station Anymore
Mom and pop industry goes corporate. Where once there were many little radio stations, now there are a few big corporations controlling talk, sports, music and the advertising rates in this hot media segment.
by Larry Thornberry


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