Sarasota Herald-Tribune STAFF PHOTO / THOMAS BENDER Signature Sound, 2047 Global Court, Sarasota. The professional recording studio is owned by Michael Cohen. With $200,000 worth of state-of-the-art equipment, the studio offers analog music recording, tracking, mixing and mastering services....

By Terry Galvin, Sarasota Herald-Tribune Are Floridians, most of whom live amid suburban sprawl, doomed to own a car? Bus services, taxis, car rental companies and bicycles are longstanding alternatives. Add to them such Web-enabled companies as the Uber taxi service, newly arrived in...

By Josh Salman, Sarasota Herald-Tribune HE WAS BORN AND RAISED IN Cleveland, but Ron Suponcic knows the Sarasota area well because he has been vacationing here since the 1960s. He also knows a thing or two about real estate. Suponcic has worked in the industry for nearly three decades,...

Sarasota Herald-Tribune IHeart Repair joins east coast firm Mobile technology repair companies MTech Repair of Jupiter and iHeart Repair of Lakewood Ranch have merged. “Both MTech Repair on Florida’s east coast and iHeart Repair on Florida’s west coast are experiencing...

Sarasota Herald-Tribune Platinum Title LLC, 410 S. Tamiami Trail, Osprey. Opened by Bryan and Cheri Guentner, owners of Re/Max Platinum Realty, the new title company is adjacent to the Osprey Realty office. “We opened a title company because we wanted to make sure our agents and...

By John Hielscher, Sarasota Herald-Tribune WHEN MARY HOWARD HEARD about the Sept. 25 murder of an Arkansas Realtor, she decided she had to do something to reinforce the paramount need for safety among real estate agents. So Howard, relationship manager with CornerStone Title in Bradenton,...

By Abby Weingarten, Sarasota Herald-Tribune Restaurateur and chef Brad Rudy recently launched New York Slice Company (501 N. Beneva Road, Sarasota. 366-8125; facebook.com/nysliceco) in Sarasota with a simple intent: to merge Manhattan-style pizza with locally-sourced Southwest Florida...

By Mark Gordon – Business Observer Business is so brisk at American Classic Car Sales in Sarasota, the company now has one employee who only installs air conditioning in old cars. That job is important, says American Classic co-owner Larry Gilliland, because the specialty dealership...

Sarasota Herald-Tribune Fitness Together Training Course at the Athletic Consulting Group, 4472 McAshton St., Sarasota. Opened by Adam Brammer of BrammerStrength, the course is designed to help increase resistance to stress, illness and the effects of aging with a combination of dynamic...

By Matt M. Johnson, Bradenton Herald MANATEE — Following the lead of their boards of directors, the memberships of the Manatee Association of Realtors and Sarasota Association of Realtors have voted to merge. An afternoon vote Tuesday at SAR’s annual meeting and at a specially...

By John Hielscher, Sarasota Herald-Tribune Members of the Sarasota and Manatee associations of Realtors voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to merge their organizations. The two real estate trade groups will combine their more than 5,200 agents and 489 affiliate members into the new Suncoast Realtor...

Bradenton Herald Toale Brothers Funeral Homes & Crematory has purchased Ewing Funeral Home in Venice, bringing its total number of locations to four in Bradenton, Sarasota and Venice. Previous owner George Kalbfleisch will continue to serve as the location’s licensed funeral...