One Liners

►Benefactors and retired businesswomen, Kate Tiedemann and Ellen Cotton donated $1 million to the University of South Florida Foundation to create the Tiedemann-Cotton Endowed Professorship in Finance position at USF’s St. Petersburg campus. ►Rich Hume, CEO of Tech Data Corp., joined the board of directors of The AllState Corp. (NYSE: ALL). ►Bassano Cheesecake opened at

Quick business updates across Hillsborough County, including Axiom Bank, Joffrey’s Coffee, real estate deals, new hires and local company news.

►Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast announced a new $100,000 challenge pledge, from an anonymous donor, toward the permanent protection of Orange Hammock Ranch. ►Equity Lifestyle Properties, which owns the Colony Cove mobile home community in north Manatee County, acquired 4.6 vacant acres in Ellenton for $2.2 million. ►Stratum Health System, in Sarasota, the parent

►Sprouts Farmers Market will open a store at 8620 Hunters Village Road, Tampa, in August ►Axiom Bank, a Maitland-based community bank, named Richard Jensen as senior vice president, commercial relationship manager in Tampa. ►Former Raymond James senior-level executive Bob Anastasi has joined the board of Abacode, a cybersecurity protection firm in Tampa. ►Refresco Beverages US

►Brandon Regional Hospital, an HCA Healthcare West Florida hospital, opened a new full-service ER 24/7 at 3526 S. Florida Ave., Lakeland. ► Watson Clinic’s Sleep Disorders Center in Lakeland received re-accreditation by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine for a period of five years. ► Watson Clinic also added Ajay K. Verma, a board-certified radiologist,

►Belleair Road Car Wash opened near U.S. Highway 19, on Belleair Road in Clearwater, behind Dick Morris Buick GMC. ►Hoots, a fast-casual restaurant chain affiliated with the Hooters brand, opened its first Florida location at 204 First Ave. N., St. Petersburg. ►SRS Real Estate Partners’ National Net Lease Group completed the $5.59 million sale of

►A team of Florida Polytechnic University faculty, staff and students, in a partnership with AdventHealth, is working to build critical personal protection equipment for clinicians treating patients amid the current COVID-19 pandemic. (pictured above) ► SVN Saunders Ralston Dantzler Real Estate, in Lakeland, brokered a total of $27.993 million in sales and leases of land

►Kingdom Development, formerly JDL Development, purchased the Lakewood Heart Office Building, a 21,553-square-foot Class-A office building at 6771 Professional Parkway, Sarasota, for $3.4 million. ►Atlas World Group International, a subsidiary of Atlas World Group, added Sarasota-based Spirit Movers to its agent partner program. ►The former Earth Fare space at The Green at Lakewood Ranch is

►Grand Central Brewhouse, a microbrewery and beer garden under construction on Central Avenue in St. Petersburg, signed restaurant tenant LaLa Karaoke Box. ►The Pinellas Arts Community Relief Fund has been established and will be distributed through the Pinellas Community Foundation, where grants will provide urgent financial support for local artists, arts organizations and creative businesses

►Sarah L. Johnston joined Weiss Serota Helfman Cole & Bierman as of counsel in the Tampa firm’s Government and Labor & Employment divisions. (pictured above) ►Health Insurance Innovations, a developer and operator of private e-commerce health insurance marketplaces in Tampa, changed its name to Benefytt Technologies. ►All Seasons Wealth, a Tampa-based wealth management firm, acquired

►Watson Clinic is now offering telemedicine, allowing patients to schedule their next doctor’s appointment and connect with a member of their medical team through video chat, or private messaging, using MyChart at Watson Clinic LLP Patient Portal. ► Parkway Property Investments was joined by another firm in acquiring the 730-acre tract bordering the Polk Parkway,

►Halfacre Construction Co., a Lakewood Ranch-based commercial construction company, was awarded the contract to construct a new 11,000-square-foot building for Harvest House, one of the few nonprofit organizations in Sarasota to work toward the development, preservation and management of affordable, service-enriched housing. ►Architecture and design firm Clifford M. Scholz Architects, Scholz, Oswald & Shaffer broke