Billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn isn't the only one paying close attention to Bonita Springs-based homebuilder WCI Communities.'s the proverbial case of good-news-bad-news with the American Tort Reform Foundation's 2006 Judicial Hellholes report.First, the good news: The Florida Legislature was one of five state governmental branches to make the 'Points of Light' list. Now, the bad news: South Florida came in second place on the overall nationwide Judicial Hellhole listDevelopment and homebuilding companies that scrambled to buy land during the residential boom are now rushing to unload it or restructure deals with sellers.The latest effort involves a huge land deal in Lee County between agribusiness giant Alico and Orlando-based luxury residential developer Ginn Development Co.St. Petersburg-based Lifestyle Family Fitness is resolving to fatten up, at least in revenues and the number of centers it operates. When the Review profiled Bradley Krohn, a scientist cum ethanol plant entrepreneur last summer, the biggest decision he was facing was where to build Florida's first large-scale ethanol plant: Tampa or Port Manatee. In building a new dinner theater in Lakewood Ranch, veteran director Robert Ennis Turoff, of the Golden Apple Dinner Theater, is stuck with a new headlining performer: Manatee County.
