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Manatee–Sarasota

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  • January 29, 2010
LWR Communities sees sharp improvement

LWR Communities reports there are only 206 homes listed for sale in Lakewood Ranch down from 805 home on the market in February of 2007.

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  • January 29, 2010
Westfield Group buys Dillard's store

Little Rock, Ark.-based Dillard's sold it's 98,156-square-foot department store in Westfield Sarasota Square Mall near Potter Park Drive to the Westfield Group for $3 million. The purchase price equated to $31 per square foot of building space.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • January 29, 2010
AutoWay subsidiary buys Red Hoagland land

A subsidiary of AutoNation Inc., First Team Ford of Manatee Ltd., purchased the Red Hoagland Pontiac GMC dealership on U.S. 41, south of State Road 70, for $6 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • Mark Gordon
  • January 21, 2010
Right Buy, Right Time

The fifth fastest growing company in the nation bought new office property on the Gulf Coast for a steal.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • 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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  • December 31, 2009
Find the Bottom

With rental rates down and vacancies up, will 2010 drag commercial property owners further underwater or to some needed stability?

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • December 23, 2009
Palm Avenue Properties buys small retail strip

Palm Avenue Properties, a company owned by prominent Sarasota developer Dr. Mark Kauffman, purchased a 1,900-square-foot retail strip along Palm Avenue west of Main Street for $410,000.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • December 23, 2009
Sarasota County, North Port offer to buy Springs

Sarasota County and the city of North Port have offered to buy Warm Mineral Springs in North Port. The two municipalities proposed paying Cypress Lending Group Ltd. $6.5 million for the roughly 81-acre property.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • December 23, 2009
Manatee County School Board moves MTI building to SR 70

The Manatee County School Board has approved moving a planned new Manatee Technical Institute facility to property it owns on State Road 70 and Caruso Road.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • December 17, 2009
Harun buys former bank building

The limited liability company Harun LLC purchased a 12,340-square-foot former Wachovia Bank branch just south of State Road 70 on Lakewood Ranch Boulevard for $1.4 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • December 17, 2009
Florida Badger buys retail, residential building

Mark Theiler, a Sarasotan best known for his Badger Appliance store, bought out a former partners' interest in a 7,984-square-foot two-story building east of the Sarasota Pavilion for $562,100.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • December 17, 2009
Brian's Auto Co. buys Venice lumberyard

Brian McMurphy, owner of Brian's Auto Co. of Osprey, purchased a 48,805-square-foot lumberyard on Center Road between Tamiami Trail and the U.S. 41 Venice Bypass from Cox Lumber for $700,000.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • December 11, 2009
SchenkelShultz designs Storm Grove

SchenkelShultz Architecture in Sarasota designed Grove Middle School on Vero Beach, a $34.3 million, 167,500-square-foot school.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • December 11, 2009
R.E. Michel Co. Inc. buys Lime Avenue building

R.E. Michel Co. Inc., a Maryland-based wholesale heating, air and refrigeration equipment distributor, purchased a 16,500-square-foot building on Lime Avenue south of Mango Avenue for $1.32 million.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • December 11, 2009
Rooms To Go buys Darby, plans store

Seffner-based furniture retailer Rooms To Go Inc. purchased the former Darby Automotive dealership on Tamiami Trail south of Phillippi Street for $6.75 million. The purchase price equated to $1.38 million per acre.

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