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Commercial Real Estate

  • By Louis Llovio
  • September 18, 2025
Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa hotel operator partner on $84M project

The plan is to build a 200-room property with a full-service restaurant to serve patients, families and others coming to Moffitt.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • September 18, 2025
Building materials company moves into 65K square feet in North Port

Lansing Building Products has created jobs through its new branch at North Port Business Park.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • September 17, 2025
New York food importer readying for Plant City move

Roland Foods, a 91-year-old company supplying restaurants and others, is preparing a 112,000-square-foot-facility for early next year.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • September 16, 2025
YIGBY picture gets clearer as Gulf Coast localities work on adoption

Yes in God's Backyard is a tool to spur the development of affordable housing by allowing religious organizations to bypass zoning rules to build on their land.

  • Florida
  • By Louis Llovio
  • September 15, 2025
Tampa Jewish organization to shutter and sell a campus, lay off 92 people

The Tampa Jewish Community Center & Federation says mounting costs and declining interest is forcing it to close JCC, preschool and assisted living facility.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • September 15, 2025
Manatee County shopping plaza sold for nearly $40M

Cortez Plaza, a Sprouts and LA Fitness-anchored shopping center in west Bradenton, has changed ownership.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Elizabeth King
  • September 15, 2025
Detwiler’s opening large distribution center in Palmetto

The grocery chain will use the center to serve its six stores in Sarasota and Manatee counties with more possibly to come.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • September 15, 2025
Tampa luxury tower picks up $520M in financing

The developers behind the Pendry hotel and residential development obtained the construction financing for the 38-story riverfront project.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Louis Llovio
  • September 14, 2025
Sarasota's The Breakfast Company to open Venice restaurant

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Sarasota firm launch $75 million investment fund, Amazon's 189-acre Fort Myers center gets a neighbor, and a Tampa REIT keeps growing.

  • Florida
  • By Louis Llovio
  • September 13, 2025
Sarasota firm launches $75 million fund to invest in the West, Southeast

ERES Capital says the fund — ERES Real Estate Fund LP — will be focused on buying and developing hospitality, multifamily and industrial properties.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Louis Llovio
  • September 9, 2025
As Foot Locker's sale to Dick's closes, no mention of future HQ in St. Pete

The retailer's move is still on, says the company's new landlord, despite no official comment from Foot Locker or its new owner Dick's Sporting Goods.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
  • By Elizabeth King
  • September 9, 2025
Food distribution giant opens 1M-square-foot facility in southern Manatee

Grocery wholesaler United Natural Foods Inc. aims to improve operational efficiency and employee experience with its new distribution center.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Steven Benna
  • September 9, 2025
The week's top commercial real estate transactions in Charlotte, Collier, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota

A Hillsborough office sale, Pinellas multifamily sale — both over $30 million — lead the week in transactions.

  • Transactions
  • By Elizabeth King
  • September 8, 2025
Buc-ee's makes $11.5M land buy in Port Charlotte

The national travel center chain plans a fuel station with at least 100 pumps off Harborview Road in Charlotte County.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
  • By Louis Llovio
  • September 7, 2025
Sarasota firm closes Venice, Lakewood Ranch sales totaling $35 million

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Clearwater boat retailer expands into Fort Myers, a Miami company takes over management of three communities, and a Dallas investor buys a Tampa property.

  • Florida
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