TAVARES, FL-General contractors, structural engineers and architects will be bidding for a share of one of the largest retrofitting jobs in years if Lake County taxpayers approve an extension of the seven-cent sales tax in November. Tavares, the county seat, is 35 miles northwest of Downtown Orlando.
ORLANDO-Schwartz Electro-Optics Inc., the oldest high-tech firm in Central Florida, is leasing the class A, sublease space at GranPark at South Park, south Orlando, for an estimated 10 years at an estimated aggregate value of $15 million, area brokers tell GlobeSt.com.
ORLANDO-Owner Glenborough Realty Trust Inc. of San Mateo, CA gives developer George Livingston's Maitland, FL-based firm the exclusive leasing contract on the six-building, 134,389-sf campus at Lakepoint Industrial Park in LeeVista Center next to Orlando International Airport.
ATLANTA-The six-story, 133,213-sf Townpark Ravine 11 building in suburban Kennesaw, GA is at the 100% leased mark after signing the Rochester, NY-based payroll-processing firm to an estimated 10-year lease with an estimated aggregate value of $8.12 million.
ATLANTA-The Northfield, IL-based food and beverage firm is taking 73,000-sf for 10 years at the 87,219-sf, one-story 4000 Johns Creek Court building at Technology Park/Atlanta in the Peachtree Corners submarket, North Fulton County.
ORLANDO-The 78-ton, 132-foot long pre-stressed material was being lowered by two cranes from a bridge when a cable on one of the cranes snapped and crashed into an adjacent boom truck where the victims were guiding the material.
ATLANTA-The Tampa, FL-based office developer tells the Fulton County community zoning board the planned 11-story, 285,000-sf structure is needed by locally based Cingular Wireless for its continued expansion program.
BRADENTON, FL-The two firms supply related but non-competing products and services to commercial real estate appraisers, developers, lenders and government agencies. Terms and value of the partnership deal were not disclosed.
CLERMONT, FL-Gov. Jeb Bush is being asked to overturn a judge's decision which gave the property owners a second five-year extension to develop the 1,434-acre tract into an estimated $1.2 billion mixed-use development.
ORLANDO-The country singer's company expects to break ground by year end on a 14-acre, 128,000-sf site 10 minutes from the four million-sf Orange County Convention Center in the tourist corridor of south Orlando.