Rhodes+Brito Architects Are Underway with Design of New Horizon West Elementary School

ORLANDO, Fla., --- Rhodes+Brito Architects recently presented Orange County government with preliminary designs for a new elementary school in the burgeoning Horizon West community in West Orlando.

Ruffin Rhodes

Ruffin Rhodes, co-founder and partner at Rhodes+Brito, said his firm was awarded the contract to design the new school that will be located on 14.8 acres of land on the South side of Porter Road, north of Wood Sage Drive and west of Bluejack Oak Drive.

Rhodes said the school, a two-story structure totaling 85,838 square feet, will be constructed by Miami-based OHL Construction.

The campus will include parking for over 120 vehicles, a bike rack, tot and youth lots, ball field and enough space for 12 portables.

The new school should start construction in the spring of next year with anticipated completion and opening by June of 2020.

Rhodes+Brito, which opened in Orlando in 1996, has exceptional experience providing architectural services to a wide variety of agencies throughout the state of Florida, including municipal government agencies, federal, education, aviation and senior living facilities.

Hold-Thyssen Negotiates Long Term Expansion Lease with Growing Company at Phillips Place

ORLANDO, Fla. --- Hold-Thyssen, a full service commercial property firm based in Winter Park, recently closed on a long-term expansion lease of an additional 1,844 square feet for a growing company at Phillips Place, 7575 Dr. Phillips Blvd. in Southwest Orlando. 

Phillips Place

Darby Hold, transaction specialist for Hold-Thyssen, Inc., brokered the transaction representing the landlord, Financial Way Realty, Inc. of Cincinnati.  

Tenant Woof Gang Bakery, Inc., a multi-national company established in 2007, was already leasing 2,147 square feet at Phillips Place and increased their occupancy by 86 percent to a total of 3,991 square feet.   The tenant’s growth is due to outstanding quality of products and service.  Woof Gang Bakery currently employs a staff of 12 at Phillips Place and looks to increase that to 15 by early next year.

Darby Hold

Hold-Thyssen, Inc. is the leasing and management representative for the 56,000 square foot Phillips Place Office Building, which is now 90 percent leased.

Hold-Thyssen, Inc. provides commercial property brokerage and leasing and management services to institutional and private investor clients nationwide.  The 40-year old firm’s current portfolio includes more that 100 commercial properties throughout the United States.

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NAI Realvest Broker Closes $695,000 Sale of Walmart Outparcel for New Heartland Dental in St. Cloud

St. Cloud, Fla. -- NAI Realvest, recently completed the sale of a 1.34-acre outparcel of the Walmart Neighborhood Market on Nolte Road in St. Cloud for $695,000.00.

Veronica Malolos

Veronica Malolos, Osceola County Broker for NAI Realvest, negotiated the transaction on behalf of the seller, Stevens Crossing Village LLC, of Jacksonville.

The Illinois-based buyer, WMG Development LLC purchased the land to develop a Heartland Dental Clinic.  Construction documents have been filed with a targeted opening of mid-2019.   

Heartland has dental clinics nationwide and will open at the St. Cloud location with a staff of 14 fulltime employees.   John Park and Jared Ettinger of Berkshire Realty represented the buyer.

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