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Recent activity across Florida’s commercial real estate market spans promotions, industrial investment, fuel retail, and single-tenant net lease assets, underscoring continued investor and occupier interest in the state.
LQ Commercial elevated Kris Kral to Market Leader, expanding his responsibilities after serving as a Senior Associate focused on retail leasing. Kral has represented national retailers such as Ross, Ollie’s Bargain Outlets, LA Fitness, Club Studio, Michael’s, and TopGolf across the Tampa Bay market. With more than two decades of experience in Tampa and other Florida markets, and prior roles at The Shopping Center Group (TSCG) and RIPCO, he brings a longstanding track record in retail leasing to his new leadership role within the firm.
On the investment side, Bromley Industrial Partners, the industrial investment platform of Tampa-based Bromley Companies, acquired a two-building, 200,000-square-foot industrial complex at 14450 and 14480 62nd Street North in Clearwater, FL. The seller was Blue Steel Development. The property sold for $23.5 million, and BankUnited provided the acquisition financing. The deal highlights ongoing demand for industrial product in the Clearwater segment of the broader Tampa Bay market and demonstrates bank participation in financing income-producing industrial assets.
In Medley, Florida, Fausto Commercial closed the sale of a Mobil-branded truck stop located at 12200 NW South River Drive. The approximately five-acre site traded for $23.5 million. The transaction was led by Bobby Berrido of Fausto Commercial, who focuses on gas stations, convenience stores, and other automotive-related retail properties across Florida. The buyer, LV Petroleum, is a Las Vegas-based operator that acquired the property from seller Rick Gonzalez.
Single-tenant net lease activity was also evident in Lutz, FL, where SRS Real Estate Partners completed the $6.55 million ground lease portfolio sale of two newly developed single-tenant retail properties. The adjacent assets, occupied by Dutch Bros and Fifth Third Bank, are located at 18640 FL-54 and 18710 FL-54. SRS Capital Markets professionals Patrick Nutt and Vice President & Principal William Wamble represented the seller, an Atlanta-based development and investment group. The buyer, based in Tampa, FL, was completing a 1031 exchange through this acquisition of fee simple land underlying the newly developed properties.
Taken together, the leadership move at LQ Commercial, the industrial acquisition in Clearwater, the truck stop sale in Medley, and the ground lease portfolio trade in Lutz illustrate active capital deployment across multiple property types and strategies in Florida’s commercial real estate markets.
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