A rare, mixed-use site on Matlacha Pass sold earlier this year to 4205 Pine Island, LLC, for $620,000. Located at 4205 Pine Island Road, the property is in the heart of the Matlacha Historic District and boasts 100 feet of water frontage, a boat lift and three additional boat... Read more

Synergy Commercial Group recently opened in Fort Myers at 4391 Colonial Boulevard. The independent brokerage provides a full range of real estate and business brokerage services to investors, landlords and tenants throughout Southwest Florida. Tod Whipple, CCIM, is principal broker. He boasts more than 15 years of commercial real... Read more

Connie Boyd has joined Vantage Construction Services as its director of business development. She is responsible for building the business base and identifying new relationships within the medical, retail, education, hospitality, government and retail industries. Boyd’s career spans 25 years in healthcare and 12 years with real estate developer... Read more

LandQwest Commercial and Swor, Inc., have sold the former Scanlon Acura complex for $4.24 million. Located at 15581 S. Tamiami Trail in Fort Myers, the seven-acre site includes a 14,051sf sales and service facility. Godfrey Santini of LandQwest and David Swor of Swor, Inc. represented the seller, Scanlon South,... Read more

Donna Marrero has joined KOVA Commercial in Naples as a licensed sales and brokerage manager. As such, she is responsible for overseeing the company’s commercial sales support staff. Originally from Flushing, New York, Marrero is a licensed Florida Real Estate Sales Associate with more than 25 years of administrative... Read more

Veteran professional engineers and urban planners Dr. Paul Van Buskirk and David H. Farmer recently established Metro Forecasting Models, LLC, a high-tech company that provides accurate and reliable forecasts for population, housing and commercial demand for communities nationwide. Headquartered in Bonita Springs, the company employs a team of GIS... Read more

Veteran retail specialist Bob Pekol of LandQwest Commercial has been selected to lease 3440 Tamiami Trail in Naples. The 5,060sf strip center is anchored by Dunkin’ Donuts. Boasting a prime location in the Courthouse Shadows Shopping Center, the center sits directly in front of the proposed Sam’s Club superstore... Read more

Artem Nashman has joined the Fort Myers office of LandQwest Commercial. He will provide sales, acquisitions and leasing services alongside Adam Palmer, CCIM. Nashman is a long-time resident of Southwest Florida and recent graduate of Florida Gulf Coast University, where he specialized in finance and real estate. He previously... Read more

Agents with Naples-based Equity, Inc., recently reported the following purchases and lease transactions. All are in Naples unless otherwise noted. SALE • Florida Equity Land Investments, LLC: 1.13 acres of vacant commercial land at 1025 Piper Blvd. for $1.05 million. (Hamish Williams & Mike Concilla) LEASES • Island Title... Read more

Stevens Construction recently named Neil Klein its director of pre-construction services. In this role, he develops preliminary to final estimates for all projects, overseeing project conceptualization and constructability within each client’s schedule and budget goals. During the course of his career, Klein has provided preconstruction services for $700 million... Read more