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CARRABELLE — Chicagobased investment firm MJM Carrabelle has bought the St. James Golf Resort for $3.25 million. The complex includes the golf course, pro shop and Crooked River Grill, 57 single-family lots and sites suitable for condo development.
DESTIN — Howard Group, a Miramar-based development company, is building an 84- room, five-story Hyatt Place hotel in Sandestin that’s expected to open in late 2018.
PENSACOLA — The University of West Florida has sold Scenic Hills Country Club and its 150-acre golf course for $1.1 million. It bought the property in 2012 for $2.2 million. The property was purchased by a limited liability company comprised of residents of the Scenic Hills neighborhood. The city’s Community Redevelopment Agency has approved developer Robert Montgomery’s plan for a $35-million condominium and retail development on a 2.2-acre site known as the Hawkshaw property adjacent to Gulf Power’s headquarters. The Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition says it will seek to develop a marine research facility at the Port of Pensacola. Randy Hammer, a spokesman at the institute, says the institute is in the process of applying for funds from Triumph Gulf Coast, the nonprofit corporation created to oversee the distribution of $1.5 billion in economic damage funds recovered by the state as a result of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Pensacola developer Quint Studer has bought a 20% stake in Two Hundred Garden West, a property owned by attorney and developer Jim Reeves. The five-acre site in downtown Pensacola was acquired from the Escambia County School District for $3.4 million. Reeves says initial plans are to develop the property as mixed-use retail and residential.
TALLAHASSEE — An additional 3,300 apartment units are either under construction or at various stages of permitting, says the Tallahassee- Leon County Office of Economic Vitality. Seven apartment complexes, with 883 units, are scheduled to be completed by late fall.
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Former Florida Senate aide Susan Skelton has been hired as executive director of Triumph Gulf Coast. Triumph is the non-profit corporation that’s overseeing the distribution of funds recovered by the state as a result of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Chase Christianson is Capital Regional Medical Center’s new COO. He formerly was an executive at Kingwood Medical Center in Texas.
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