Relationship driven

Joe R. Hembree is living proof that success in life, as Woody Allen once put it, is 80% showing up.

Hembree's commercial real estate brokerage and property management firm has been doing just that in Sarasota for more than three decades.

But Hembree & Associates has differentiated itself not just through relationships and a long line of community involvement with such groups as the Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce, the Sarasota Association of Realtors and the Argus Foundation.