Lennar Homes to introduce Multi-Generational NextGen Homes at Bridgewater at Lakewood Ranch in Bradenton

BRADENTON, Fla. -- Lennar Homes plans to introduce its popular new NextGen® homes for multi-generational families at Bridgewater at Lakewood Ranch, located off Lakewood Ranch Blvd. in Bradenton. Matt Devereaux, director of sales and marketing at Lennar Homes in Southwest Florida, said Lennar plans to build 291 new homes at Bridgewater at Lakewood Ranch from Lennar’s Manor Homes and Estate Homes collection. Lennar’s NextGen homes feature a “home within a home” design that has proved very popular among home owners with elderly live-in parents or adult children. “NextGen homes provide security and privacy for both families under one roof, with a full living suite for the second family that features its own private entrance and garage space,” Devereaux explained. Priced from $399,990, Lennar’s two-story Oxford NextGen floor plan offers 3,828 square feet of living space with five bedrooms, three full baths and a half bath in the main family living area with a two-car garage. The one-bedroom, one-bath NextGen living area features its own kitchen and dining facilities, a private living room and a private one-car garage. Lennar plans to build Estate Homes at Bridgewater at Lakewood Ranch in six distinctive designs that range from the Cambridge floor plan, priced from $369,990 with three bedrooms, a den, two full baths and one half-bath in 2,394 square feet and a three-car garage, to the Chapel Hill floor plan that offers five bedrooms and four full baths in 3,800 square feet. The two-story Chapel Hill floor plan has a 600 square foot bonus room and comes with a three-car garage. Lennar’s Manor Homes at Bridgewater at Lakewood Ranch, priced from $299,990, range in size from the 2,245 square foot single-story Princeton floor plan with four bedrooms, two baths a three-car garage.

RenuEn Corp. Reports $7.5 million sale of natural gas recovered from St. Cloud landfill to Dubai company for use in U.S. trucks

St. Cloud, Fla. -- RenuEn Corporation (otc pink:RENU), a renewable energy development company in St. Cloud has agreed to sell its entire five-year production of compressed natural gas (CNG) recovered from the St. Cloud Landfill in Osceola County to Dubai-based Al-Gahry Trading for use in U.S. delivery trucks. Don Wood, chief executive officer of RenuEn, said the sale of 3,750,000 Gas Gallon Equivalents (GGE) is worth $7.5 million over the five-year contract period. RenuEn Corp. is currently building the first phase of a CNG recovery system at the St. Cloud Landfill designed to produce approximately 62,500 GGE per month, or 750,000 GGE per year. “This purchase agreement will account for 100 percent of the production from the first phase of the project,” Wood said. A second phase, which is now in development, will increase yearly production to more than 3,000,000 GGE by combining CNG recovered from the landfill with natural gas from a nearby pipeline. J. Charles Nemes, executive vice president of RenuEN Corp., negotiated the sale agreement in collaboration Elliot Kahana, Senior Consultant with Florida-based KFV-LLC and Wolfgang R. Geyer of Mocker & Co. Consult Gmbh, in Stuttgart, Germany. The sale agreement could open the door for expansion by RenuEn Corp., Wood said. “Al-Gahry Trading plans to use the CNG to fuel its U.S. trucking operations and we have been working to bring MBM brand CNG trucks and engines to the U.S.,” Wood explained. MBM trucks use German-designed technology that meets U.S. standards for cleanliness and fuel economy. “As more and more trucking companies convert to CNG technology, RenuEn will be positioned to offer expanded CNG services to all of our clients,” he said. “This sales agreement and the relationship we have now forged is the most significant component of our business plan,” Wood said. RenuEn Corp. is a client company of the UCF Business Incubation Program in St. Cloud.

NAI Realvest Negotiates Lease for a New Crossfit Gym across from Rollins College in Winter Park

Orlando, Fla. – NAI Realvest recently negotiated a lease agreement for a new 3,960 square foot Crossfit Gym in the former Loco Motion space at 125 W. Fairbanks Ave. in Winter Park. NAI Realvest Associate Mitch Heidrich, negotiated the lease representing the tenant Winter Park Training Consultants, LLC d/b/a Crossfit Winter Park, which will open this October. Crossfit Winter Park, a direct affiliate of Crossfit.com, provides accredited training seminars worldwide and at this location the company will also sell health foods, supplements and massage services, Heidrich said. More information regarding Crossfit Winter Park can be found on their website, crossfitwinterpark.com. The landlord, RCJ of Winter Park No. 3, LLLP was represented in the transaction by Brenda Carey of Great American Land Management, Inc.

Winston James Development Leases 937 Square feet to Aviation Parts Firm at Aloma Commerce Center

WINTER PARK, Fla. -- Winston James Development recently completed a new lease agreement for 937 square feet at its Aloma Commerce Center off Aloma Avenue in Oviedo. Winston Schwartz, a president of Winston-James Development, based in South Daytona, said the new tenant is Rush Aviation Systems, a firm that sells new and reconditioned aviation parts. Bob Winters of Dunhill Properties is the leasing agent for Aloma Commerce Center at 2781-2789 Wrights Rd.

Nine ready-to-move-in homes now under construction at Villages of Royal Palm in Port Orange

PORT ORANGE, Fla. — Winston James Development, the developer of the Villages of Royal Palm, the upscale community on Coconut Palm Circle in Port Orange, has nine homes under construction, slated to be completed and move-in ready by the end of the year or in early 2014. Jamie Allen Adley, president of Villages of Royal Palm, said the move-in ready homes range in size from 1,500 square feet of living area to 2,400 square feet. Prices of the homes, according to Adley, range from $174,000 to $300,000.

Lennar Homes will have more than 260 homes ready for immediate move in by October in Tampa Bay region

TAMPA, Fla. --- Lennar Homes will have 262 new move-in ready homes completed by October throughout the Tampa Bay region. Mark Metheny, president of Lennar’s Central Florida Division, said the homes are located throughout its active communities in Hillsborough, Pasco and Polk counties and are priced from the $130s to $300,000. The move-in ready homes include both single family and townhomes that range from 1,300 square feet of living area to 4,000 square feet and 123 homes were completed and move-in ready starting in September at Lennar’s Tampa Bay area communities. Lennar’s Central Florida Division currently builds new single family, villa and town homes priced from the $100s to $400s at its 15 active communities in the Tampa Bay market. Visit www.LennarTampa.com.

Organizational Development Consulting Firm Wightman & Associates Founder Invited to Participate in U.N. Forum on Disaster Preparedness

ORLANDO, Fla. --- Gina Wightman, founder and president of Wightman & Associates LLC in Orlando, will participate in a U.N. forum on Sustainable Training Initiatives for Resilience (STIR) September 11-13 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Wightman, a noted expert on disaster resilience training for communities, states and national governments, said the forum will focus on capacity building to help emerging nations benefit from new international commitments to sustainable development. The forum is sponsored by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) and the Global Education and Training Institute at Incheon, South Africa. “The STIR Forum is an important initiative that will stimulate dialogue and catalyze action to reinvigorate and sustain training initiatives for resilience,” Wightman explained. “Many stakeholders have called for more focus on the development and implementation of national training strategies that support higher education, facilitate knowledge-brokerage and promote innovative approaches,” she said. Wightman & Associates LLC, a Women Owned Small Business (WOSB), is a full service organizational development and training firm dedicated to helping clients achieve excellence through a qualified and synchronized workforce. Wightman & Associates is a member of the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program in the Central Florida Research Park in East Orange County.

Technology Empowers Northern Virginia Residents to Aid Their Community After a Disaster

Orlando, Fla. --- Residents in Northern Virginia can now help their community’s emergency response agencies by submitting information about damage to their home or business after a storm. The Northern Virginia Damage Reporting Tool (NOVA DRT) software system was unveiled on Sept. 1, at the start of National Preparedness Month. The system includes smart phone apps, available for free to residents, which can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store or the Google play store. For residents who do not own a smart phone, NOVA DRT can be accessed on the Internet at www.novadrt.org. Ken Rudnicki, Emergency Management Coordinator for the City of Fairfax and Immediate Past President of the Virginia Emergency Management Association (VEMA), said NOVA DRT elevates disaster preparedness efforts by making it easier to learn when and where a disaster is occurring. The system allows emergency managers to view a map of the damage reports, with validation from the resident photos, and download reports of damage totals. “This application will allow local jurisdictions to identify the resources needed to assist residents quicker and more accurately,” Rudnicki said. “In addition, it will provide the higher levels of government a more accurate picture of what it’s like when disaster strikes,” he said. Geocove, Inc. (www.geocove.com), the Orlando, Florida firm that develops GIS-based technology solutions that help government agencies and non-profit groups coordinate responses to disasters and emergencies, was awarded the contract to develop the proprietary NOVA DRT software system. “With NOVA DRT, residents can provide a rapid, eye-on-the-ground look at problems that authorities can then use in their decision making activities,” Karyn Tareen, Geocove’s President said. Using the NOVA DRT app, a resident can create a damage report by tapping on pictures that most closely identify damage and flood levels, record their precise location and even include a photo of the damaged building. Behind the scenes, the NOVA DRT system leverages the participating communities’ address and property databases to build accurate reports for emergency managers. These reports are crucial for requesting aid in an emergency. Esri’s GIS software was selected as the technology platform for the NOVA DRT system as most communities in the region are already using it for their mapping platform. “Without creating complicated new databases to maintain, we are able to reference the existing community databases to provide added intelligence to the system,” Tareen said. “Quick access to damage reports and information allows emergency managers to request and deploy the right resources, enabling the communities to recover more efficiently,” she explained. For stability and scalability, especially for a large scale event, the NOVA DRT system is hosted in the cloud by ROK technologies. NOVA DRT was funded by a grant from FEMA's Grant Programs Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. For more information about the NOVA DRT system, including participating communities, please visit www.novadrt.org Geocove is a member of the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program in the Central Florida Research Park in East Orange County.

Patriots Day Golf Tournament at Golden Bear Club in Windermere Raised more than $500 for Folds of Honor Foundation

WINDERMERE, Fla. --- More than 60 members and guests participating in a Patriots Day Golf Tournament recently raised $540 for the Folds of Honor Foundation, which supports the families of service men and women killed or wounded in the line of duty through scholarships and other assistance. Matthew Allen, general manager and director of golf at The Golden Bear Club at Keene's Pointe, said Golden Bear Club member Dave Corbett aced the fifth hole during the tournament for his second lifetime hole-in-one.

NAI Realvest Negotiates Two Lease Renewals totaling 10,200 Square Feet at Hanging Moss CommerCenter in Orlando

ORLANDO, Fla. – Michael Heidrich, principal at NAI Realvest recently negotiated two lease renewals at Hanging Moss CommerCenter in Orlando that total 10,200 square feet of industrial space. Heidrich, who brokered the transactions on behalf of landlord COP-Hanging Moss, LLC of Maitland, said the two local tenants are: Apex Imaging, who was formerly called Florida Injury and Rehabilitation, renewed the lease of 6,200 square feet in Suite 100, 6148 Hanging Moss Rd; The Cast Stone Factory LLC renewed its 4,000 square feet of space in Suite 470 at 6112 Hanging Moss Rd.