This year marks three decades in business for Rib City, a family-owned national barbecue chain founded in Fort Myers. There are currently 14 corporate restaurants in Florida with 10 locations in Southwest Florida, and 12 franchise restaurants across the country including Washington, Colorado, Tennessee, Ohio, Missouri and Virginia. Rib... Read more

GCG Construction, Inc., won the Grand Award for 2018 Commercial Contractor of the Year. The honor was announced in November at the annual Lee Building Industry Association (BIA) Industry Awards. The Commercial Contractors Council of the BIA created the Summit Awards in 2006 to recognize excellence in the commercial... Read more

Lake Michigan Credit Union (LMCU) is offering its members who are qualified federal employees affected by the government shutdown a no-fee payment deferral on LMCU consumer loans. The offer excludes mortgages, and home equity loans and lines of credit. The credit union also has options for low-rate, unsecured relief... Read more

Commercial brokers with SVN®|KOVA recently negotiated the following sales and lease transactions in Lee and Collier counties. SALES • Bluewater Capital SWFL, Inc.: 4,104sf office condo at 6150 Diamond Centre Court, Building #1000, Fort Myers, from E&M Properties of Southwest Florida, LLC. (Bryan J. Myers, Stephen A. Cunningham, MAI,... Read more

Brokers with Phil Deems Real Estate recently closed the following sales and leases in Cape Coral (unless otherwise noted). SALES • JCSR Group, LLC: a 3,435sf warehouse condo at 918 N.E. 24th Lane, Units 1,2, & 3 in the North Cape Industrial Park for $300,000 from Bylands Commercial Condominium... Read more

Agents with LandQwest Commercial, LLC in Fort Myers recently negotiated the following sales and leases. SALES • Sanibel Captiva Community Bank: 13,354sf bank building at 11691 Gateway Blvd. Suite 101, Fort Myers, from Walkerbilt, LLC for $3,095,000. (Rokki Rogan, CDPE & Mike Doyle, CCIM) • Brightview Landscapes, LLC: Nine... Read more

Hoffmann Creative Agency recently launched, becoming Naples’ newest comprehensive marketing company. It will oversee all aspects of branding and advertising for Osprey Capital’s holdings, as part of the Hoffmann Family Group. Sylvia Krivickova, founder of Merdeli Marketing, is the agency principal. While expanding to include the various Hoffmann companies,... Read more

GCM Contracting Solutions recently promoted Rudley Lewis to vice president of construction. Lewis, who has 35 years of experience in the construction industry, joined GCM last February as a project manager. Before that, he was an executive operations manager and project executive in New York for nearly two decades.... Read more

The members of Audubon Country Club in Naples recently selected GATES Construction to build a $7 million renovation and expansion project of the club’s Courtside Café building. The existing single-story structure will be replaced with a two-story, 18,000sf lifestyle center to include tennis and fitness operations and a new... Read more

Wright Construction Group, Inc. has completed construction of the Northeast Recycle Drop-Off Center at 825 39th Avenue N.E. in Naples. It is the fifth and largest local recycling center the county has constructed. Built on a 14-acre site, the 31,107sf state-of-the-art facility features: truck scales and special containment rooms... Read more