GlobeSt.com EXCLUSIVE: Colonial, LaSalle, Lincoln Interested in Pizzuti Assets

ORLANDO-Is Columbus, OH-based Pizzuti Cos. Inc. pulling out of Orlando after a 16-year stay? Published balloons sent up in the past 90 days appear to point that way.

Ronald A. Pizzuti, chairman/founder, Pizzuti Cos., couldn’t be reached at GlobeSt.com’s publication deadline to comment on growing speculation that at least three national developers are inquiring about his vacant Downtown 5.64-acre pad across the from the $200 million, 25-story Orange County Courthouse.

Brokers intimate with the Downtown office submarket tell GlobeSt.com on condition of anonymity that Colonial Properties Trust Inc. of Birmingham, AL; Jones Lang LaSalle of Chicago; and Lincoln Property Co. of Dallas have chatted with Pizzuti on the sale of his trophy Downtown dirt and his eight-building, 996,000-sf Heathrow International Business Center and 92 adjoining acres in suburban Heathrow, FL, 25 miles north of Downtown Orlando.