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John McKay is well known on the Gulf Coast for his past job as an state senator and an outspoken critic of Florida's sales tax structure.

Some also know MacKay as a developer of medical and office properties in Bradenton and Sarasota.

But McKay is now hoping people, specifically bankers in the region dealing with a growing amount of distressed properties on their books, will get to know him as well. McKay and longtime business partner Ron Allen, president of Bradenton-based NDC Construction, have formed Riverside Real Estate Co. to combat just that problem.