What is the most unusual request you have had from a client? Mike Bartoletta, Taralon Homes: To install a gold toilet Brandon Boss, Boss & Mennie Inc.: To build a hockey rink inside a home Jay Fechtel, The Fechtel Co.: To design and build a “car barn” T.J. Nutter, Nutter Custom Construction: Glass garage doors […]
The key to being one of the fastest-growing companies in Florida , it turns out, is pretty easy: All you have to do is be in the right place at the right time with the right skills. Of course, figuring out exactly what those right things are is the hard bit. For the companies that […]
A downtown St. Petersburg apartment development has been sold for $84.5 million. Alabama-based B&M Management paid $259,202 per apartment for Beacon 430, which is at 430 Third Ave. South, in a deal that closed Thursday. Beacon is a four-story building, wrapped around a five-story parking garage. The amenity package includes a pool, 3,000-square-foot fitness center, […]
Two major residential real estate transactions in Sarasota have closed in the last two days. The home at 8306 Sanderling Road on Siesta Key sold for $6.25 million on Tuesday. On Monday, unit No. 1101 in The Beach Residences at the Ritz-Carlton sold for $4 million. One agent from Sarasota brokerage Michael Saunders & Co. […]
Paychecks are expanding more rapidly in the nation’s heartland than anywhere else in America. Five major markets enjoyed income growth of at least 2.5 percent per year between 2009 and 2014 — and four are located in a narrow belt from Arkansas and Oklahoma to Texas. Atop the list is the Fayetteville, Arkansas metropolitan area, […]
An Atlanta developer is moving forward with plans for a 23-story apartment tower on downtown Tampa’s Grant block. Carter closed on the three parcels at 910, 911 and 915 N. Franklin St. on Sept. 9, paying $6.4 million for the one-acre site, according to a Hillsborough County deed filed Friday. The sellers were father-daughter duo […]
A recent listing in Westshore Yacht Club shows how far Tampa Bay’s luxury housing market has come in the last five years. The 6,681-square-foot waterfront home at 6021 Beacon Shores St. hit the market last week, listed at $3.3 million. Jennifer Zales, an agent with Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate, has the listing. The sellers […]
Harvey Parido and his family thought Altman Development Corp.’s proposal for Grand Central was exactly what the neighborhood needs. Parido’s wife, Cecille Stoeltzing Parido, owns the land where Altman had proposed a building with 296 apartments, 5,000 square feet of retail space and 622 parking spaces. Tampa City Council struck down the rezoning request that […]
Tampa City Council has struck down a rezoning request that would have cleared the way for an upscale apartment-and-retail development near Oxford Exchange. The vote came shortly after midnight Friday, after a public comment period that spanned almost three hours. The majority of those who spoke opposed the proposal. Altman Development Corp., based in Boca […]
WHAT ARE THE NEWEST FEATURES & TRENDS IN THE HOUSES YOU ARE BUILDING? We asked local production homebuilders to name a few of the newest features, amenities or trends in houses being built in 2015. Here are some responses… Greg Carlson , K. Hovnanian Homes : More open space; community amenity such as resort style […]