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Commercial Real Estate

  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • February 17, 2017
LandQwest forms investment division

Commercial real estate brokerage firm LandQwest Commercial has formed an investment services division to provide clients with more focused analysis on acquisition, disposition and debt opportunities.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • February 17, 2017
New Amazon building owner likes 'ground zero' location

“The Interstate 4 corridor is really the high growth part of the state of Florida, particularly from a logistics perspective,” says Jonathan Tratt, founder of Tratt Properties LLC of Phoenix and the new owner of the 1.02 million-square-foot Amazon.com fulfillment center in Lakeland.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • February 17, 2017
HCP buys Charlotte, Colliers medical space

HCP Inc., one of the nation's largest health care-oriented real estate companies, has acquired a trio of medical-related properties in Southwest Florida for $53.8 million.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • February 10, 2017
Q&A | Ron Wheeler

Ron Wheeler is the chief executive officer of Sembler Co., a firm that over the course of its more than 50-year history has developed more than 325 projects containing more than 27 million square feet of mostly retail real estate throughout the southeastern U.S. and Puerto Rico.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • February 10, 2017
Taking shape

Massive Gulf Coast real estate developments are gelling thanks to population growth and demographic shifts.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • February 10, 2017
Sarasota hotel to have two flags

There are roughly 1,000 new hotel rooms under construction in downtown Sarasota and Sarasota County — and another 400 or so keys on the drawing board — but those numbers aren't dissuading TDR Land Holdings.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • February 10, 2017
Applebee's sales show retail health

In a further sign that the Gulf Coast retail market remains healthy — at least for triple net deals involving credit tenants — a Tampa-based investment firm has sold 14 properties occupied by Applebee's restaurants for $46 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 10, 2017
Sarasota slated for dual-flagged hotel

An Ohio developer plans to build a 200-room lodging property in Sarasota.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Business Observer Staff
  • February 10, 2017
Applebee's sales a signal of the health of retail market

It's another sign of the resurgence of the Gulf Coast retail market.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • February 3, 2017
Back from the brink

An Illinois developer has plans to revitalize a Tampa eyesore.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • February 3, 2017
Some runway left

Signs of a CRE bubble are emerging elsewhere. But Southwest Florida seems primed for future growth.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • February 3, 2017
Tampa area brokerages shake up

A trio of top Tampa commercial real estate brokerages have kicked off 2017 with some high-level personnel moves.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • February 3, 2017
Maryland firm buys Lee site for apartments

One of the Baltimore area's best-known development firms has acquired a 37.6-acre tract in Fort Myers, where it plans an “upscale” apartment community.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • January 27, 2017
Polk County Industrial Market

Distributors, logistics firms and e-commerce purveyors alike have flocked to Polk County because of its central Florida location, sophisticated highway network that connects Interstate 4 with Interstate 75 and Interstate 95 and its ability to reach roughly 18 million customers within a 24-hour drive.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Traci McMillan Beach
  • January 27, 2017
No longer vacant

A site that sat empty for more than a decade has new life, with a $60 million project.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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