Commercial Real Estate Insights
Will 25% Tariffs On Chinese Goods Impact CRE?
After more than a year of tit-for-tat trade negotiations between China and the U.S., making sense of all the rhetoric and tariff adjustments has just about everybody scratching their heads, including U.S. real estate experts. Last week, President Donald Trump raised...
Construction Management Team Chosen for New Mote Science Education Aquarium
Willis A. Smith Construction, Inc., and The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company will build Mote’s new aquarium. Mote Marine Laboratory has announced the selection of a partnership between a local construction management company and an international firm for the...
How Real Estate Is Adjusting to Our Changing Moral Compass
In a sign of the changing times and an increased focus on tenant needs, large landlords are striving to attract and retain tenants by offering an array of perks inside their new and existing builds—such as cocktail bars and wine lockers. At the same time, we seem to...
Lemon Avenue project to begin next week
The city is undertaking a seven-month effort to redesign a downtown street and park. Construction on a Lemon Avenue streetscape project is set to begin Monday, a process expected to continue through December as the city invests $3.5 million into redesigning the...
EPOCH, a New Condo Building, Breaks Ground in Downtown Sarasota
Seaward Development broke ground on EPOCH, a boutique condominium community of 23 residences located between South Palm and Gulfstream avenues in downtown Sarasota. Seaward Development principals Patrick DiPinto and David Hargreaves held an official groundbreaking...
Verizon Ranks Sarasota No. 2 on List of Best Small Cities to Start a Business
America has become the veritable poster child of the startup era. It’s hard to look at the surge of self-made billionaires across all industries in the US, with their humble startup beginnings, and not feel a certain amount of awe. Things around here show no sign of...
Opportunity Zones VS 1031 Exchanges
The new program offers another route to postpone or eliminate taxable gains. While the tax benefits of Section 1031 exchanges in commercial real estate are well-known to most real estate professionals, the new qualified opportunity zone program now offers another...
Brick-and-Mortar’s Pathway: The shopping center is not doomed — if owners can adapt.
For the brick-and-mortar retail industry, success begins and ends with the ability to adapt to market changes. In recent years, retailers such as Amazon have completely disrupted how consumers make purchases by creating a one-stop shop, e-commerce channel. With...
6 Commercial Lease Clauses to Avoid
When you enter into a commercial lease negotiation, you do so in good faith and want to believe that the landlord is presenting you with a fair agreement. Unfortunately, there is always a chance that the landlord has included clauses that weigh heavily in their favor...