Sarasota developer advances with 16-story luxury condo, hotel tower

Rodrigo Trepp likes the prospect of developing in Sarasota so much that he's moving his company and his family to the area from Bolivia.

By Andrew Warfield
| 5:00 a.m. March 28, 2023
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Both residents and hotel guests at SOTA will have access to the amenity level, located on the fifth floor of the building.

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Rodrigo Trepp was visiting Florida's east coast with his family on a half-vacation, half-site exploration tour for development sites for his company, Trepp Developments, when his financial partner, Michael Ealy, suggested he take a look at Sarasota.

That was in December 2019, just before the world turned upside-down, but the city and Gulf Coast made a lasting impression. So much so Trepp assembled a local team of well-known development and real estate names — Hoyt Architects, Michael Saunders and Joel Freedman — to help bring the Bolivia-based company’s first U.S. project, SOTA Residences & Hotel, to life. The project is at 1703 Main St., on the corner of Main and Goodrich Avenue in downtown Sarasota. That's currently the home of Il Panificio Pizzeria.