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Commercial Real Estate

  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 30, 2025
Goodwill retail store to be built on Ruskin site that sold for $2.6M

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a downtown Sarasota building is up for sale, Pasco is getting a $200 million baked goods building, and a Fort Myers furniture store is listed.

  • Florida
  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 27, 2025
Polk County storage facility sells for $10.2 million

A California owner of self-storage centers bought the newly built Winter Haven property.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Andrew Warfield
  • March 26, 2025
Sarasota Housing Authority CEO: Building affordability without stigma

William Russell came to town in 2005 to lead the Sarasota Housing Authority out of insolvency. What was thought to be a short-term assignment is still going strong two decades later.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 25, 2025
South Florida investor buys 18-building portfolio in Pinellas for $60M

Basis Industrial bought the buildings located across business parks in Largo and Clearwater.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 24, 2025
Polk County LG Electronics building sells for $50 million

The 348,740-square-foot Building 4 in the Lakeland Commerce Center is leased to the South Korean company.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 23, 2025
Maryland buyer pays $72M for housing near Florida Gulf Coast University

In the week's top commercial real estate news, an insurance company takes more space in Tampa, a Fort Myers company plans to build homes, and a major Sarasota project gets a big loan.

  • Florida
  • By Laura Lyon
  • March 20, 2025
St. Petersburg office space completes renovation

City Center, a 242,115-square-foot Class A office space at 100 Second Ave. S. recently completed renovations.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Laura Lyon
  • March 19, 2025
Tampa land to be developed into warehouse, distribution center

A South Carolina developer purchased the 8-acre parcel, which is currently occupied, for $2.72 million.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 19, 2025
$45 million loan for Fort Myers industrial project

The Minneapolis developer will begin work on the 442,000-industrial park to begin next year.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 18, 2025
Developer of former Bath & Racquet Club Sarasota property gets $79M loan

The loan will go toward the construction of the new club on the site of the iconic property which closed in 2021.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 17, 2025
Symphony Salvage sells Sarasota building for $3.5 million

The 25-year-old building was sold vacant after the second-hand distributor moved to a bigger space nearby.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Steven Benna
  • March 17, 2025
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

Collier deals — $45.1 million for rural land and $29.5 million for a mixed-use project — pace the week in transactions.

  • Transactions
  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 16, 2025
National developer buys 17 acres in Sarasota for 336 apartments

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Brandon apartment complex sells for $76.25 million, a Fort Myers apartment community is almost complete, and a Naples retail property is back on the market.

  • Florida
  • By Louis Llovio
  • March 13, 2025
Mayor says Gas Plant redevelopment to continue despite Rays rejecting stadium deal

The team announced it was backing out of a deal to build a new stadium.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Andrew Warfield
  • March 12, 2025
Developer faces adjustments in using affordable housing law for Sarasota project

The city of Sarasota's Development Review Committee tells the developer of Adagio it must reduce apartment density and height to comply with zoning codes prior to formally submitted plans.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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