Commercial Real Estate

By Business Observer Staff
January 26, 2018

The future of the sector?

Feldman Cos. is developing a new 970-unit self-storage facility in Miami, with Naples-based DeAngelis Diamond on board as the project's general contractor.

Commercial Real Estate

By Kevin McQuaid
January 26, 2018

Colliers forms 'leisure' team

Commercial real estate firm Colliers International has formed a “Leisure Property Advisors” team comprising agents in Tampa and Atlanta.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

By Kevin McQuaid
January 26, 2018

Plasencia Group sells Fort Myers hotel

Tampa-based hotel consultancy and brokerage The Plasencia Group has negotiated the sale of a Hampton Inn & Suites property in Fort Myers to an East Lansing, Mich., firm.

Charlotte–Lee–Collier

By Kevin McQuaid
January 26, 2018

Urban Style Flats trades for $46.25 million

Urban Style Flats, a 481-unit St. Petersburg apartment project, has been sold to a New York joint venture for $46.25 million, Pinellas County property records show.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

By Beth Luberecki
January 26, 2018

Boom-time Build

The steady stream of retirees coming to Florida, soon to be more of a gushing, requires an enhanced approach to senior living development.

Manatee-Sarasota

By Kevin McQuaid
January 26, 2018

Becoming CCIM

Despite lengthy classes, required experience and a grueling final exam, the CCIM designation is gaining popularity.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

By Brian Hartz
January 26, 2018

JMC Communities will spend $130 million to revive a storied inn, turning it into the showpiece of a new luxury residential development. Will the end result satisfy historic preservationists who fought the project?

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

By Kevin McQuaid
January 19, 2018

Havana Square perpetuates multifamily trend

A 274-unit luxury apartment project in Tampa has sold for $58.1 million, perpetuating a sales trend involving multifamily rental projects that has dominated along the Gulf Coast since 2014.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

By Kevin McQuaid
January 19, 2018

Key to success

Blue Steel Development and JLL think Polk County's Key Logistics will benefit from its size and speed of delivery.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

By Kevin McQuaid
January 19, 2018

Gulf Coast MPCs sales soared last year

Two Gulf Coast master-planned communities were tops in the nation in sales last year, and a third Florida community posted the best numbers in the U.S.

Manatee-Sarasota

By Kevin McQuaid
January 19, 2018

All Related

Miami-based Related Group is diversifying in multiple ways, to the benefit of St. Petersburg and Tampa.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

By Kevin McQuaid
January 19, 2018

Sarasota industrial inventory tightening

United Natural Foods Inc. took down an additional 40,038 square feet in Sarasota's Independent Business Center last fall, expanding on the 90,000 square feet it already had in the same park space the food distributor maintains in the massive Meridian Distribution Center off Clark Road.

Manatee-Sarasota

By Kevin McQuaid
January 19, 2018

Electra America spends $850 million in 2017

Tampa-based Electra America invested $850 million last year to bolster its multifamily rental portfolio by more than 6,300 units in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Texas.