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Talk of the bay
By TIMES WIRES
Published February 10, 2007
IT'S BIG, IT'S PINK AND IT GETTING MORE LUXURY
The Don CeSar Resort & Spa is kicking up the elegance quotient of its spa services by several notches. The pink Jazz Age landmark on St. Pete Beach breaks ground Feb. 28 on Spa Oceana. That's a new $10-million beachfront home for the resort's spa that will sport 16 treatment rooms, a rooftop meditation garden and suites to host bridal parties, showers and girlfriend getaways. The 11,000 square foot facility - which, for construction cost mavens, comes out to a bit less than $1-million per 1,000 square feet - opens in December.
Selmon's is slow moving the chains
Plans for expanding Lee Roy Selmon's are moving ahead, but about as fast as a 350-pound lineman. The restaurant chain owned by Outback Steakhouse parent OSI Restaurant Partners will open a new Selmon's, its sixth, next week in Sarasota. Executives said in 2005 that two-store chain hoped to open as many as four new Selmon's that year and four more in 2006. They also hinted the Southern cooking and BBQ chain might expand beyond the bay area or even out of state. But Selmon's remains strictly local with two locations in Hillsborough, two in Pinellas, one in Bradenton and, next week, the Sarasota outpost.
Smiles all around Holland & Knight
Holland & Knight is spreading the joy. Following what it described as its best year financially, the global law firm is raising salaries for new and existing associates in all its U.S. offices, retroactive to Jan. 1. In Tampa that means entry-level lawyers will be paid $110,000 annually, compared to $105,000 a year ago. New York City will remain the highest paying market, with newly minted attorneys getting $160,000 for their first year, up $15,000 from a year ago.
He's in a position to talk right now
It's a small world after all. Last week, Bruce Misamore, former CFO of the Russian oil company Yukos, claimed Russian charges of money laundering and theft against former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky are false. "All of the transactions were conducted at a market price," Misamore told Russian journalists - in a conference call from Tampa.
. THE TICKER
| | | | | | | | | Dow 30 Industrials | | S&P 500 | | - 56.80
12,580.83 | * | | - 10.25
1,438.06 | * | | NASDAQ | | Russell 2000 | | - 28.85
2,459.82 | * | | - 9.28
807.11 | * | | Gold | | Oil per
barrel | | + $9.50
$667.50 | m | | + $0.18
$59.89 | m | | 10-year U.S. note | | Dollar vs. Canada | | +0.05 4.78 | m | | - 0.0104,
1.1720 | * |
. tampabay.com
Industry in crisis
Learn about the problems facing insurance companies in Florida at tampabay.com/insurance
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