Prominent downtown Sarasota site listed for sale

SARASOTA — A prime spot of commercial real estate in downtown Sarasota, at the corner of U.S. 301 and Main Street, has been put up for sale.

The site, 1993 Main Street, is part of Main Plaza. The owners, a partnership of local investors and entrepreneurs under the name BBC Main Street, initially acquired all of Main Plaza for $18.1 million in 2015. BBC Main Street sold 8.6 acres of the roughly 10-acre site, at 1991 Main Street, in December for $20 million to a Connecticut firm now building apartments there.