The Related Group, which has built two Trump towers in South Florida, signed a letter of intent to become managing partner on the downtown Trump Tower Tampa, waterfront project with Gulf Coast developer SimDag LLC and private-equity firm, Mirabilis Ventures, Orlando.The Lee County Chamber of Commerce, the for-profit chamber in Fort Myers, is fighting to keep its name.State legislators have filed a bill that would prevent any for-profit group from using the name "chamber of commerce" and violations would be punished as a first-degree misdemeanor. Traditionally, chambers of commerce have been not-for-profit organizations, but entrepreneurs have started using the "chamber of commerce" name.Coffee Talk has nothing against young guns taking prominent positions in business, law and politics - witness the Review's annual 40 under 40 issue - but there was some mild surprise when AARP, the national lobbying group for the mature population, recently named its new Florida director: She's 33 years old, a baby in AARP years. Development executives were buzzing at the Urban Land Institute conference in Naples Feb. 22 about a DiVosta Homes ad appearing in the local daily newspaper.The two-page, four-color ad touted a 48-hour sale during which homebuyers could get discounts of as much as $60,000 on a new home at one of three communities in Naples, Bonita Springs and Ave Maria.The stock of Chico's FAS, the Fort Myers-based women's retailer, was ranked as th
