Skin deep: Renovation brings the past to life

A lighting manufacturer got more than it bargained for when it acquired what appeared to be a run-of-the-mill office building.

  • By Brian Hartz
  • | 6:00 a.m. August 31, 2018
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Chiara Zaniboni is the CEO of Zaniboni Lighting, which has poured some $800,000 into a complete renovation of its headquarters in an historic building in downtown Clearwater.
Chiara Zaniboni is the CEO of Zaniboni Lighting, which has poured some $800,000 into a complete renovation of its headquarters in an historic building in downtown Clearwater.
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When Zaniboni Lighting co-founders and co-owners Fabio and Chiara Zaniboni purchased, for $1.19 million, a new headquarters for their high-end lighting fixture manufacturing business in November 2016, they knew the building needed work.

 

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