New developers breathing new life into Pineapple Square project in Sarasota

Plans for ambitious, $200 million downtown redevelopment live on in new condos and retail investments.

  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • | 6:00 a.m. August 9, 2019
COURTESY RENDERING — Isaac Property Co. brought in national retailers to Sarasota's downtown a decade ago as part of its Pineapple Square project.
COURTESY RENDERING — Isaac Property Co. brought in national retailers to Sarasota's downtown a decade ago as part of its Pineapple Square project.
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Fifteen years ago, as Sarasota seized on the recommendations a 2001 master plan aimed at bringing additional residents and more sophisticated commercial space to the city’s downtown, a group of brothers from Bryan, Ohio, quietly began buying up retail properties.

 

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