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  • By Jay Brady
  • January 21, 2010
Legal Limbo

Sarasota's Forest Lakes Country Club Estates' homeowners look out at 12-foot tall weeds instead of golf course views, and now have a fire hazard, flooding worries, new forms of wildlife and crime to contend with while the foreclosure drags on. It is a grim sign of the times.

  • Florida
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  • By Jay Brady
  • January 21, 2010
Government Digest 1/21/10

A look at governmental action from around the Gulf Coast.

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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • January 21, 2010
Maxcy Development to add onto Crossing

Tampa-based Maxcy Development Group purchased a 0.78-acre lot near Rand Blvd. and Thinger Court next to OfficeMax in Palmer Crossing for $4 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • January 21, 2010
The Hachems buy office building

Ashley 601 Inc., a company headed by Tampa investors Sam and Laurice Hachem, purchased the 55,000-square-foot historic office building on Ashley Drive north of Kennedy Boulevard for $4.1 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • January 21, 2010
Asolo buys building for production center

The Asolo Repertory Theatre purchased the 36,963-square-foot former Athco flex building on Tallevast Road north of the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport for $1.65 million

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • January 21, 2010
Inland American buys Malibu Lakes

Oak Brook, Ill.-based Inland American Real Estate Trust Inc. purchased the 356-unit Malibu Lakes Apartments west of Tarpon Bay Boulevard and east of Interstate 75 for $31.02 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • January 21, 2010
Lee County DOT buys Enterprise building

Lee County government purchased a 24,451-square-foot industrial manufacturing building on Enterprise Parkway north of Luckett Road and bordering Interstate 75 for $1.34 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • January 21, 2010
Tampa's Encore project awarded $38 million grant

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has notified the city of Tampa that the city will receive $38 million in federal funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to build the Encore project.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • January 21, 2010
Massachusetts group buys Summer Palms

Newton, Mass.-based developer Robbins Property Associates LLC purchased the 340-unit, four-story Summer Palms Apartments for $16.2 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • January 21, 2010
Wisconsin investors buy Kozy Mobile Home park

Kozy MHP LLC, a limited liability entity affiliated with a West Bend, Wis., investment group, purchased the 95-lot Kozy Mobile Home Park on Cortez Road east of 34th Street West for $2.1 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • January 21, 2010
Eastpoint Stimuli buys Pine Island Road land

Eastpoint Stimuli LLC, a limited liability company led by Cape Coral broker investor Steve Krieg, purchased 15.8 acres on Pine Island Road west of 21st Avenue and adjacent to a BJ's Wholesale Club for $2.2 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • January 21, 2010
RFLP Mabry buys Dale Mabry Plaza

Tampa limited liability company RFLP Mabry LLC purchased the 18,348-square-foot South Dale Mabry Plaza for $4.3 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • January 14, 2010
Wal-Mart buys portion of Centre at University

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. purchased a three-acre piece of The Centre at University Parkway, a 128,708-square-foot neighborhood shopping center at the northwest corner of University Parkway and Lockwood Ridge Road, for $7.5 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • January 14, 2010
Avanti buys Palmetto's Corvus site

Winter Park-based investment group Avanti Investment Advisors purchased the 211 acres of vacant land east of Riviera Dunes and south of U.S. 301 in Palmetto for $24 million.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Business Observer Staff
  • January 14, 2010
County community college buys building

Hillsborough Community College purchased a 51,400-square-foot four-story office building between 14th and 15th streets and 5th and 6th avenues for $6.5 million. The first three floors of the building were completed but the fourth floor is still just a shell.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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