More Than 400 Residents at Plantation Bay Golf & Country Club Participate In Annual Music in The Park

More Than 400 Residents at Plantation Bay Golf & Country Club Participate In Annual Music in The Park

ORMOND BEACH, Fla. - More than 400 residents turned out for the annual Music in the Park event recently at Plantation Bay Golf & Country Club in Ormond Beach.

Greg Brousse, managing director of Plantation Bay, said the turnout was the highest on record.

“Residents enjoyed the sounds of RiverDan Band and Ormond Beach’s Hershey’s Ice Cream Company and Papa’s Kettle Korn,” Brousse said.

Snickers the Clown was on hand to entertain the children, Brousse added.

For more information, please contact:
Lisa A. Egle, Marketing Manager ICI Homes-Daytona Beach, 386-236-4273
Rosemary Messina, VP Sales & Marketing ICI Homes, 386-236-4231
Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications, 407-644-4142

About ICI Homes:
ICI homes, ranks among the top 100 Builders by Builder magazine and is one of the largest privately owned homebuilder in the US. The 30-year-old firm builds new homes and resort facilities in the Volusia-Flagler region as well as Northeast Florida, Orlando and Tampa.

ABD Development Company opens new model luxury home at Wyndham Lakes Estates in South Orlando

ABD Development Company opens new model luxury home at Wyndham Lakes Estates in South Orlando

ORLANDO, Fla. - ABD Development Company, which ranks as one of Central Florida’s most active custom home builders and one of the region’s largest community developers, recently opened a new model luxury home at Windsor Landing at Wyndham Lakes Estates, located off Town Center and Landstar Blvds. in southeast Orlando.

David Kohn, president of ABD Development Company, said the Riviera model home offers four bedrooms in 3,100 square feet of living space priced at $499,000.

Only 20 home sites remain for sale at Windsor Landing, Kohn said.

New three, four and five bedroom luxury homes at Windsor Landing at Wyndham Lakes Estates are priced from $349,000.

For more information contact:
David Kohn, President, ABD Development Company, 407-370-6400
Sofi Coffey, Marketing Manager ABD Development Company, 407-370-6400
Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications 407-644-4142

ICI Homes, Beazer Homes Joint Venture opens $2.7 million fire station on Beach Blvd. in Jacksonville adjacent to Tamaya

ICI Homes, Beazer Homes Joint Venture opens $2.7 million fire station on Beach Blvd. in Jacksonville adjacent to Tamaya

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A joint venture that included ICI Homes and Beazer Homes recently opened a new $2.7 million fire station on Beach Blvd. in Jacksonville adjacent to the new community of Tamaya. Rosemary Messina, vice president of sales and marketing at ICI Homes, said the joint venture paid for the new four-bay fire station to replace an antiquated two- bay station.

“One important feature of the new fire station is the high roof,” said Messina, “It is high enough to accommodate the fire department’s largest ladder trucks,” she said.

The joint venture, Beach Blvd. Ventures, LLC also paid $2.5 million to relocate power lines for a spine road that connects Hodges Rd. and Kernan Rd. so local drivers can avoid Beach Blvd.

“We also donated $500,000 to the Parks Department for improvements to the adjacent park and are treating a storm water retention pond to end the longstanding flooding problem off Sandalwood Canal,” Messina reported.

ICI Homes and Beazer Homes recently hosted a grand opening of the fire station.

For more information, please contact:
Lisa A. Egle, Marketing Manager ICI Homes-Daytona Beach, 386-236-4273

Rosemary Messina, VP Sales & Marketing ICI Homes, 386-236-4231

Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications, 407-644-4142

About ICI Homes:
ICI homes, ranks among the top 100 Builders by Builder magazine and is one of the largest privately owned homebuilder in the US. The 30-year-old firm builds new homes and resort facilities in the Volusia-Flagler region as well as Northeast Florida, Orlando and Tampa.

BioTRAiTS, Inc. Selected to Present at Florida Venture Forum’s Early Stage Capital Conference May 15

BioTRAiTS, Inc. Selected to Present at Florida Venture Forum’s Early Stage Capital Conference May 15

ORLANDO, Fla. – BioTRAiTS, Inc., a biometric technology company that provides private companies and public agencies with customized software and hardware solutions for access control and time & attendance tracking, has been selected to present at the Florida Venture Forum’s Early Stage Capital Conference on May 15 at Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate.

Peter A. Wengert, president of BioTRAiTS, Inc., said their selection represents a significant milestone in the company’s growth.

“The Early Stage Capital Conference is a gathering of potential investors from across the country looking for emerging enterprises that promise substantial returns,” he said.

“We are already in the market with a powerful package of solutions that can benefit almost any business,” Wengert said. “We make access control as well as tracking, accounting and control of worker time, attendance and project responsibilities almost effortless and absolutely accurate,” he said. “Additional capital will enable us to ramp up our expansion and become a major market player.”

BioTRAiTS, Inc., already counts among their diverse customer base The Vue at Lake Eola, a luxury condo development in downtown Orlando, Merrimac Industries in New Jersey, and New York and South Florida based Joseph’s Classic Markets, a specialty grocer. The company recently acquired Orlando-based Reliable Tech Experts.

BioTraits Inc. is a University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program client at the Technology Incubator in Research Park.

For more information about this release contact:
Peter A. Wengert, CEO BioTraits, Inc. 3267 Progress Drive, Suite 103, Orlando, FL 32826; 866-815-0888 or peter@biotraits.com

Carol Ann Dykes, Site Manager, UCF Technology Incubator, 407-882-0211, cdykes@mail.ucf.edu

Tom O’Neal, Executive Director, UCF Incubation Program, 407 882-1120, oneal@mail.ucf.edu

Larry Vershel or Beth Payan, Larry Vershel Communications, 407-644-4142 or LvershelCo@aol.com.

About BioTraits:
Founded in March 2003, BioTraits, Inc. is a biometric company providing solutions for biometric identification and verification products through its development of a suite of workforce management products and distribution of biometric access control products. For more information, visit http://www.biotraits.com/.

About the Florida Venture Forum:
The Florida Venture Forum offers programs statewide to provide expert counsel, educational advice and managerial assistance to entrepreneurial ventures. The Forum hosts two capital conferences each year. The Early Stage conference in May is focused on companies seeking their first round of equity funding. The Capital Conference in January is focused on high growth companies seeking later stage funding. In the past 18 years, presenters at the Forum’s capital conferences have raised over $1.8 billion. For more information, visit http://www.floridaventureforum.org/.

About the UCF Incubation Program:
Since its founding in 1999, the UCF Business Incubation Program has helped more than 100 emerging companies (including nearly 70 current clients) create over $500 million in annual revenue and more than 900 new jobs with an average salary of $59,000. With five facilities across the Greater Orlando community, the Incubation Program is a collaboration in economic development between the University of Central Florida, the City of Orlando, Orange County, Seminole County, the City of Winter Springs, and the Florida High Tech Corridor Council. For more information, please visit http://www.incubator.ucf.edu/.

Stirling Sotheby's International Realty to Participate in Two-Weekend Community Open House at Oxford Moor in Southwest Orlando

Stirling Sotheby's International Realty to Participate in Two-Weekend Community Open House at Oxford Moor in Southwest Orlando

ORLANDO, Fla. - Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty is coordinating a community open house at the luxury gated community, Oxford Moor in the Windermere area of southwest Orlando the weekends of May 16-17 and May 23-24.

Roger Soderstrom, owner and founder of Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty, said real estate agents will be on hand at each of the upscale residences that range from 4,000 square feet and up, priced from $630,000 to $1,149,000.

KC Ye, sales executive with Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty’s Windermere-Dr. Phillips office, lives in Oxford Moor and is the organizer of the event in cooperation with the community’s Owners Association.

“KC has been working closely with the Oxford Moor Owners Association, who have graciously allowed this type of open house in their exclusive community,” said Soderstrom.

Ye said homes being showcased at Oxford Moor, situated on half-acre plus lots in one of the Windermere area’s newest communities off SR 535, will be open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and 1-4 p.m. Sunday on both weekends.

For information, call KC Ye at 407-925-7909 and for directions, go to http://www.mapquest.com/ insert a starting address and destination: 5926 Oxford Moor Boulevard, Windermere, FL 34786.

For more information, contact:

KC Ye, Sales Executive, Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty-Windermere/Dr. Phillips; 407.925.7909 (http://www.homesbykcye.com/);

Roger Soderstrom, Founder/Owner, Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty, 407.588.1260

Beth Payan,Larry Vershel Communications Inc. 407.644.4142