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Tampa developer accuses SunTrust of predatory practices
-Businessman takes on $117 billion-asset bank
TAMPA — Developer Donald E. Phillips is making good on his promise to fight the banks unwilling to extend mortgages on his projects or to fund development loans as agreed.
Developer Donald E. Phillips wins bout with bank in roundabout way
TAMPA — Donald E. Phillips kept his April promise to fight the lender that was demanding full payment of a $2.9 million loan secured by Phillips Development and Realty LLC. And this week, Phillips claimed victory.
Developer takes on lender beating retreat, wants justice
TAMPA — Battered by losses from bad mortgages, First Horizon National Corp. appointed a new CEO last year and began a retreat from Florida, along with other states, to retrench in Tennessee.
Kearney takes on bank in fight for survival
TAMPA — Not only is Kearney Construction Co. fighting Pasco County in court for firing it from a stimulus-funded road job, it’s also taking on banking behemoth Bank of America Corp., alleging predatory lending practices.
Developer told to improve unfinished Trinity shopping center or risk demolition
TRINITY — Just a few years ago, it was billed as the "Main Street" of Trinity. But the shopping center — locked up in what one lawyer calls "the legal labyrinth of doom" — remains today an unfinished construction site and an eyesore to the residents who pass it every day.
