Jack Burge Earns Player of The Year Honors at Golden Bear Golf Club In Windermere

Orlando, Fla. --- Jack Burge earned the Men’s Golf Association Player of the Year honors at the Golden Bear Golf Club in Windermere recently. Matthew Allen, general manager at the Golden Bear Club, said more than 100 members and guests were on hand for the annual dinner, dance and program. Allen said 2013 Champions Tour winner Bart Bryant was the featured speaker at the event, regaling fellow Golden Bear Club members with stories and anecdotes of tour life. Bryant and his wife, Cathy, joined the Golden Bear Club last spring. The Men’s Golf Association holds several tournaments throughout the year where golf members are flighted by their handicap and compete for points to become the winner of their respective flights, Allen explained. The three flight winners then play against each other in a final 18-hole stroke play event to determine the overall Player of the Year. The Player of the Year’s name is engraved on a trophy that is prominently displayed in the clubhouse and is recognized along with the other flight winners at the annual awards dinner. Burge won the Nicklaus flight, then the playoff over Palmer Flight leader Steve Clapp and Bruce Perreault, who won the Jones Flight.

M/I Homes acquires an additional 26 home sites at Randal Park

ORLANDO, Fla. --- M/I Homes has acquired an additional 26 home sites at Randal Park, located on Dowden Rd. between Narcoossee Road and the 417 in Southeast Orlando. M/I Homes has purchased a total of 118 lots in Randal Park. David Byrnes, area president in the Orlando region, said Phase 2 at Randal Park will include 26 homes ranging from 1,768 square feet of living area to 2,800 square feet from M/I’s Eco series of new home designs. M/I Homes in the second phase at Randal Park will be priced from $255,000 to $350,000.

Orlando-based Geocove Earns largest Florida client for Impact and Damage Assessment software: Miami-Dade County

ORLANDO Fla., --- Geocove, Inc. the Orlando technology firm that developed the award-winning ARM360 GIS-based disaster assessment system for local, state and regional governments, and NGOs worldwide, has won the most populated county in Florida: Miami-Dade County. Karyn Tareen, president and chief executive officer at Geocove, said Miami-Dade County has licensed the Enterprise version of Geocove’s ARM360 system, to include not only Miami-Dade County, but all municipalities and other concerned agencies within Miami-Dade County. This common platform will allow the collaboration, sharing and reporting of impact and damage information across municipal boundaries, key for success in managing a disaster. According to the US Census Bureau 2012 estimate, Miami-Dade County has over 2.5 million residents, making it the largest county in Florida by population. Miami-Dade joins Geocove’s other ARM360 clients including Collier, Lee, and Sarasota counties, West Palm Beach and other counties and cities throughout the State of Florida and the US. Internationally, ARM360 has been deployed in Melbourne, Australia. Geocove’s ARM360 system enables disaster management authorities to immediately assess large-scale damages caused by disaster using a wide range of tools based on underlying GIS capabilities and databases. “ARM360 enables even the largest communities to construct, compile and share information on the ground in real time,” Tareen said. “In a disaster event, ARM360 can enable authorities to learn instantly when and where to respond with which resources,” she said. Geocove is a client company of the UCF Business Incubation Program on the UCF campus.

Lennar opening Traditions community in Polk County, will showcase two newly completed models Feb. 22

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Lennar will host a grand opening Feb. 22 at its newest active adult community, Traditions, located off of Hwy. 27 in Winter Haven in Polk County. Mark Metheny, president of Lennar’s Central Florida Division, said Traditions will feature 13 single family floor plans on 40, 50, and 60 foot home sites. Metheny emphasized that there will be opportunities for future expansion at Traditions. Homes at Traditions will offer two to four bedrooms, two and three baths, ranging from 1,100 square feet of living area to 2,500 square feet with prices starting from the $140s. Traditions, according to Metheny, overlooks Lake Ruby and features resort style amenities including a 19,000 square foot clubhouse with ballroom, Olympic-size swimming pool, fitness and aerobics facilities, basketball, tennis and bocce ball courts as well as boat docks. Metheny said two models that will be completed by the grand opening are the Ascot and Kennedy. The Ascot model, featuring two bedrooms, two baths in 1,779 square feet of living area has a two-car garage. The Kennedy offers four bedrooms, three baths in 2,277 square feet and a three-car garage. All new homes at Traditions come with the Lennar’s “Everything’s Included” pledge: a wide range of appliances, special features and upgrades including the homebuilder’s EcoSmart program, at one “everything’s included” price, Metheny said. Visit www.lennar.com.

Hendricks-Berkadia negotiates $78.5 million sale of Five Florida apartment properties in Pensacola, Tallahassee

ORLANDO, Fla. --- Hendricks-Berkadia Real Estate Advisors, which ranks as one of the leading multi-family investment banking and research companies in the nation, recently negotiated the sale of five Florida apartment properties for $78.5 million. Cole Whitaker, partner who heads Hendricks-Berkadia’s southeast region based in Orlando, negotiated the sale with senior vice president in the Orlando office Hal Warren and vice president Jason T. Stanton, of the firm’s Tampa office, The four properties were part of an 11 property Gulf Coast Portfolio of apartments Hendricks-Berkadia’s southeast team is marketing nationwide. The Pensacola properties include the 213-unit Cordova Regency Apartments at 4311 Bayou Blvd, 176-unit Crest View at Oakleigh Apartments at 8990 N. Davis Hwy., 200-unit Kings Mill at 8917 N. Davis Hwy., and 152-unit Crestview at Cordova at 3500 Creighton Rd. Hendricks-Berkadia also negotiated the sale of the 224-unit Plantations at Pine Lake property at 1833 Halstead Blvd. in Tallahassee. Whitaker said the portfolio includes a mix of Class A and Class B properties built between 1971 and 1999. Hendricks-Berkadia represented the sellers.