►Regions Bank opened its new concept store, Nexus, at 1400 S. Pasadena Ave., South Pasadena.
►Marcus & Millichap (NYSE: MMI) sold Twin Brooks, a 39-unit apartment property located in St. Petersburg for $2.475 million.
►Bento Asian Kitchen + Sushi, an Orlando-based chain of quick-casual, pan-Asian restaurants, has opened its first Tampa Bay area location at 320 3rd Street South, on the ground level of the Camden Pier District apartment building in downtown St. Petersburg.
►Publix is reopening in the former Safeway at 10500 Ulmerton Road, in Largo, after purchasing three stores in Florida from Safeway in June.
►USF St. Petersburg received a $2.2 million grant from the Florida Department of Education to establish the Youth Mental Health Awareness and Training Administration Project.
►JP Morgan is opening a branch office at 1600 Central Ave., in St. Petersburg.
►The Women’s Tennis Association, based in St. Petersburg, agreed to a five-year deal with the Tennis Channel that will make the network its U.S. television and digital media home, beginning in January.
►Wannemacher Jensen Architects is expanding its downtown headquarters with the construction of a 34,000 square foot mixed-use building adjacent to its current headquarters by downtown St. Petersburg’s Mirror Lake.
►Fish Tales Seafood House, at 1500 2nd St. S., St. Petersburg, is closing.
►Blue Line Residential is bringing new townhomes to Treasure Island at 255 110th Avenue with two three-story units, each of which has an anticipated listing price of $1.75 million.