Prolific builder Pat Neal takes show to Tampa

It took more than 40 years for Pat Neal to tweak, twist and turn his homebuilding firm, Neal Communities, into a local leader in Manatee and Sarasota counties.

But growth to other areas, first south and now north, of the firm's original locations, has come significantly faster. So quick that Neal Communities will charge into Hillsborough County in 2014, less than a year after it began to build homes in Collier and Lee counties.

“It's a strategy we have developed over time,” Neal Communities President of Building Michael Storey tells Coffee Talk. “The model is transportable.”