Swedish firm Skanska completes $59M in Tampa school projects

Naples/Fort Myers/Charlotte

If you build it: Construction has started on a new apartment community in Port Charlotte. The property is at U.S. 41 and Cranberry Road and will be called Livano Charlotte Harbor. LandSouth Construction, the Jacksonville builder behind the project, says the complex will be made up of of seven, four-story buildings with 10 different floor plans ranging from 831 square feet to 1,594 square feet. Work is expected to be complete in early 2026. The Alabama multifamily developer LIV Development bought the 22-acre parcel of land earlier this year, paying $8.4 million. The firm, which owns or has sold 13 properties in Florida, is also building a 234-unit apartment building in Pasco County at State Road 54 and Henley Road in Lutz. As for LandSouth, it was founded in 1988 and has built more than 25,000 multifamily units.

School days 1: A New Jersey investor has bought a 2.21-acre parcel in Cape Coral. The property is at 1628 Skyline Blvd. and was bought by an LLC based in Union, New Jersey. It paid $5.25 million. Lee County property records do not list what the previous owner, VDP Cape Coral Properties, paid for the land, saying the parcel was created in 2021 when it was “split or combined at the request of the property owner.” A building on the property is occupied by The Learning Experience, a Deerfield Beach chain of day care centers. The property records show it was built in 2022 and is 10,010 square feet. The day care chain operates seven other centers in the Tampa Bay market and one in Lakewood Ranch. Two others are under construction. On average, the company says, the cost of building a school is $3.2 million to $3.5 million.