Sarasota Orchestra buys land for new home on Fruitville Road

32-acre site between Honore Avenue and Cattlemen Road will include performance space, along with event and educational facilities.

By Business Observer Staff
| 4:21 p.m. March 24, 2022
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Manatee-Sarasota

SARASOTA — Sarasota Orchestra has agreed to buy a 32-acre undeveloped site on Fruitville Road between Cattlemen Road and Honore Avenue for a new performance venue, the organization says in a statement released today.

The land at 5701 Fruitville Road is owned by Wal-Mart Stores East LP of Bentonville, Arkansas and is valued by the Sarasota County Property Appraiser’s office at $7.335 million. The parcel, immediately west of a Sam's Club retail store owned by the same company, is zoned for planned commerce use.

Single-family housing tracts border the northern boundary of the property.