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After transitioning ownership, Tampa land dealer rolls on

With a rich history and grounded approach to doing deals, Eshenbaugh Land Co. continues to grow as it moves into the future with a foot firmly in the past.


  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 5:00 a.m. May 26, 2023
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Bill Eshenbaugh and Ryan Sampson work as team running Eshenbaugh Land Co., the firm Eshenbaugh founded and built and Sampson now owns.
Bill Eshenbaugh and Ryan Sampson work as team running Eshenbaugh Land Co., the firm Eshenbaugh founded and built and Sampson now owns.
Photo by Mark Wemple
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Sitting in the conference room of their office on South Willow Street in Tampa, Bill Eshenbaugh and Ryan Sampson couldn’t be any more different.

Eshenbaugh, known far and wide in the commercial real estate industry as the Dirt Dog, is 80. A cowboy type in boots, jeans and a thick mustache, he’s straight out of central casting or a Larry McMurtry novel. Sampson, too, is straight out of central casting if the part calls for an standard white male in his 40s working in commercial real estate. He’s in khakis and a polo shirt.

 


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Louis Llovio

Louis Llovio is the deputy managing editor at the Business Observer. Before going to work at the Observer, the longtime business writer worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Maryland Daily Record and for the Baltimore Sun Media Group. He lives in Tampa.

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