Texas company pays $13.75 million for former Donzi property in Manatee

Builders FirstSource, a Texas buildings supply company, has bought a 9.88-acre parcel of property in Manatee County that was once the site of Donzi Marine and plans to use the property to expand its operations.

The company paid $13.75 million for the industrial site at 7110 21st St. in the city’s Whitfield Estates neighborhood, less than a mile from U.S. 301, according to Harry E. Robbins Associates. The commercial real estate firm represented Builders FirstSource.

The site was first developed in 1964 by Donzi, which stayed on the property for about 46 year until it moved to North Carolina in 2010 and eliminated 40 jobs in the process.