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Hotel barons stripped of all property ownership

DAYTONA BEACH -- Charles Bray and Joe Gillespie blew into town in the mid-1990s and quickly became the toast of the town, buying 30-plus oceanfront hotels with 3,000 rooms over five years from Ormond Beach to Daytona Beach Shores. Then Hurricanes ...

From BOB KOSLOW, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  15 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Wells Fargo

Palin to speak at chamber function

DAYTONA BEACH -- Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be the featured speaker for the Daytona Beach Area Chamber of Commerce's 90th annual meeting Feb. 15, executive committee chairman Ted Doran said Monday. Palin was thrust into the national spotlight ...

From BOB KOSLOW, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  John McCain,  U.S. Republican Party

Housing recovery starts

DAYTONA BEACH -- Home sales are climbing, inventories are shrinking and prices are stabilizing. The data point to the start of a housing recovery. But brokers are nervous about what's ahead that could stall progress. "We are in a holding pattern and ...

From BOB KOSLOW, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  24 Oct 2009

Rossmeyers Roll On

ORMOND BEACH -- Although iconic Harley-Davidson motorcycle dealer Bruce Rossmeyer died in a motorcycle crash July 30 in Wyoming at age 66, he still watches over his local business empire, according to the family. A wall-mounted sketch of the burly ...

From BOB KOSLOW, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  18 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Ducati

Amid weak job outlook, 'tis season for hiring few

DAYTONA BEACH -- Debbie Brooks has looked for a job since A.C. Moore Arts and Crafts closed here a year ago. The former office manager was fortunate to be one of 19 seasonal workers hired at the Halloween USA store in the former Circuit City at ...

From BOB KOSLOW, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  10 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Circuit City,  Best Buy,  American Eagle Outfitters, Inc.

Home sales spurred by tax credit

With the $8,000 federal tax credit for first-time homebuyers expiring Nov. 30, nurse and student Courtney Monroe was convinced it was time to buy a home. "I wanted the credit. When I heard it might not be continued, I said, 'Geri: Find it. Find it,' " ...

From BOB KOSLOW, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  25 Sep 2009

Area developer Vincent Viscomi dies

The primary planner for the development of Palm Coast and a builder of subdivisions and homes from St. Augustine to Port Orange died unexpectedly Tuesday night. Born in Brooklyn, Viscomi moved to the area in 1978 and was a vice president for ITT ...

From BOB KOSLOW, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  17 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Farmingdale State College

Daytona ranks lowest in traffic congestion

As you drive to work this morning in Volusia County and get stuck in traffic, thank your lucky stars you live here. According to the 2009 midyear Inrix National Traffic Scorecard, the Deltona-Daytona Beach area has the least congested roads among the ...

From BOB KOSLOW, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  4 Sep 2009

Volusia/Flagler homes sales soar as prices tumble

DAYTONA BEACH -- It's been three years since Realtors sold as many single-family houses as they did in July in Volusia and Flagler counties. And across the nation, July's home sales posted a 10-year record for largest monthly increase, surpassing ...

From BOB KOSLOW, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  22 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Thomson Reuters

Home sales soar again in June as prices fall

DAYTONA BEACH -- Lannis Snow's Fairway Estates home here was about to be foreclosed on earlier this year because he could not make ever-increasing payments on an adjustable rate mortgage. "The payments had just grown out of control," Snow said Thursday. ...

From BOB KOSLOW, Daytona Beach News-Journal,  24 Jul 2009

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