Retail-focused developer returns to CEO role of prominent firm

Greg Sembler sees opportunity among the carnage ecommerce brought to retail.

Mark Wemple. Greg Sembler has been an executive with Sembler Development, the St. Petersburg firm his father founded, since 1983.
Mark Wemple. Greg Sembler has been an executive with Sembler Development, the St. Petersburg firm his father founded, since 1983.
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The retail industry was on fire when Greg Sembler led the development of a St. Augustine outlet center in the late 1980s. The economy was in expansion mode and branded fashion — hello, Reebok and Champion — was having a moment.

 

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