Commercial real estate lender Cristin Madden has been named vice president of the Florida Lions Eye Clinic. Formerly the Bonita Springs Lions Eye Clinic, the non-profit provides free eye care to needy people of all ages throughout Florida. Madden, vice president of commercial lending for Charlotte State Bank &... Read more

The third quarter saw the addition of numerous industry professionals to the GATE S Construction staff. • Mark Boenker (Senior Superintendent). With more than 30 years of construction experience, Boenker specializes in retail, commercial, office and multi-family construction. He graduated from Bowling Green State University with a B.S. in... Read more

Owen-Ames-Kimball Company (O-A-K) has broken ground on a Creative World School in Gateway at 11961 Fairway Lakes Drive in Fort Myers. When it opens in January, the 13,000sf school will be able to accommodate up to 250 students. It will provide a preschool for ages three months through five... Read more

Village on the Isle, a not-for-profit continuing care retirement community, has selected Stevens Construction for the renovation of its five-story, 80,000sf assisted living facility, Mark Manor. Located at 930 Tamiami Trail South in Venice, Mark Manor is being fully renovated one floor at a time to minimize disrupting its... Read more

SVN Florida has expanded its Southwest Florida presence with the formation of SVN|KOVA, a full-service commercial real estate brokerage with institutionalquality property management . The new firm combines the brokerage and property management divisions of Naples-based KOVA Companies with SVN and two of its well-established offices in Fort Myers... Read more

Andrew Saluan, owner and managing broker of Naples-based AJS Realty Group, recently negotiated the $1.04 million sale of a 5,400sf medical office building at 1735 Heritage Trail in Naples. Jeffrey L. Zimm, MD, PA , was the buyer. Saluan represented the seller, Countryside Commons SWF, LLC. Saluan and other... Read more

SVN | KOVA Naples recently negotiated the following Southwest Florida sales and leases. All properties are in Naples unless otherwise noted. SALES • Ladd Eastman, LLC: 2,940sf office condo for $500,000 at 5274 Golden Gate Parkway from Krishnavani Srinivasan. (Eric F. Edwards represented the buyer.) • Ladd Eastman, LLC:... Read more

Istrouma Trustee, LLC has sold two mixed-use properties totaling 104.78 acres for $6.5 million to Colonial Hammock SWFL, LLC. Both parcels are in Fort Myers. One parcel totals 70.18 acres at 4151 Veronica Shoemaker Boulevard and is zoned commercial general. The other site consists of two adjacent properties totaling 34.6... Read more

Fort Myersbased Private Equity Group has made a second $500,000 deposit to Charlotte County as part of the company’s contractual agreement to purchase 452 acres in Murdock Village. The latest deposit, made at the successful conclusion of Private Equity Group’s due-diligence period, brings the company’s total deposits with Charlotte... Read more

Lake Michigan Credit Union (LMCU), headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Naples-based Encore Bank. Encore has approximately $400 million in assets and operates six branches in Southwest Florida. The combined entity will have approximately $5.6 billion in assets, and more than $9 billion in... Read more