Perfect timing

The $22 million acquisition of the Park Place Office & Promenade in Clearwater last month may kick off a renewed wave of regional buying by institutional investor Steelbridge Capital, its founding partner says.

Gavin Campbell contends the Sept. 30 deal for the four-building complex was spurred by a high-tech tenancy that has clustered in Pinellas County.

“We've always been interested in Pinellas County, because it's a densely populated county, and we like that,” Campbell, a former LaSalle Investment Management executive, says of Steelbridge's strategy.