Motivated as much by passion as potential profits, a Tampa entrepreneur is bidding on the city’s most iconic skyscraper. Tom Frederick, who was a partner in Zeno Office Solutions before selling the company to Xerox in 2013, said Thursday that he submitted a $60 million offer for the Rivergate Tower, the 31-story cylindrical office tower […]
The priciest streets to live on in Tampa Bay are in exclusive waterfront enclaves, from Clearwater to an-off-the-beaten path bayfront nook in Ballast Point. That’s according to analysis from Zillow, which released the most expensive streets in the U.S. on Wednesday. The top spot is in South Florida, on Indian Creek Island, a private island […]
A townhouse development in Seminole Heights will break ground speculatively by mid-May. Developer Wesley Burdette had planned to wait until at least one of the homes was under contract before breaking ground on the four-unit development at 113 W. Giddens Ave. But since he launched the sales campaign in mid-January, he’s found that most buyers […]
Women in Florida earned 84 percent of what men earned in 2013, according to the spring 2015 “The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap” report from the American Association of University Women. See the info graphic below for state rankings. The state ranked similarly in a report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, […]
The death an employee is a tragedy for any company. Here Rand Construction CEO Linda Rabbitt talks about her president, Jon Couch, who died last fall when the plane he was piloting crashed near Richmond, Virginia. Couch’s mother, Francis Gene Couch, 72, also died in the crash. Couch, 46, was piloting a T-28C Trojan Navy […]
A New England group has acquired downtown Sarasota’s Ringling Square for $11.5 million. Ringling Square is a five-story office and retail building with an adjacent five-story parking garage, built in 2005. Including the garage, Ringling Square totals 124,527 square feet, for a sales price that breaks down to $92 per square foot. That figure is […]
The recent sale of a waterfront home in Westshore’s Beach Park Isles neighborhood illustrates the urgency in Tampa’s luxury housing market. A home on Beach Park Isles sold for $2.7 million on April 3, according to a Hillsborough County deed filed Friday. The seller, Christina Lavery, paid $2.025 million for the home in 2012. The […]
It’s nearly dusk as Jim Shimberg walks onto the riverfront lawn at Ulele, where hundreds of people are congregating to celebrate Mayor Bob Buckhorn’s re-election. Shimberg can’t take more than a few steps without shaking another hand, greeting another familiar face. They’re real estate developers, attorneys, political connections, family friends: These are relationships that span […]
Darryl LeClair wanted to build it, but they didn’t come. LeClair, chairman of Echelon LLC, in 2012 proposed land in St. Petersburg’s Carillon Park as a site for a new Tampa Bay Rays stadium. The Rays never engaged with Echelon. As the real estate market improves, Echelon feels now is the time to pursue a […]
A bayfront mansion on the Manatee County side of Longboat Key has been sold. The estate, known as Bayside Villa, sold to an undisclosed buyer for $3.25 million, Michael Saunders & Co. said Wednesday. The seller, according to Manatee County property records, was Irene Pompliano. Richard Perlman, an agent with the Longboat Key South office […]