Hendricks-Berkadia and Dowd Properties, Inc. Negotiate $3 Million Price in Sale of 80.96-Acre Callawalk Reunion Development Site on Polk-Osceola Border

ORLANDO, Fla. --- Hendricks-Berkadia Real Estate Advisors, one of the nation’s largest multi-family property investment advisors, recently negotiated the $3,000,000 sale of an 80.96-acre development site located on State Road 532 across from Reunion, straddling the border between Osceola and Polk counties. Cole Whitaker, Orlando based partner, who heads Hendricks-Berkadia in the Southeast, and Jim Dowd of Jim Dowd Properties, Inc. based in Celebration, negotiated the sale representing the seller, Capstone Resdev, LLC. Gene Lanton at Coastal Bay Realty LLC represented the buyers, Clarkwood Callawalk LLC, GCIW-Callawalk LLC and First American Exchange Company LLC.

Centex Homes opens new phase with 45 single-family home sites at Magnolia Park in Riverview

Tampa, Fla. --- Centex Homes has opened a new phase with 45 single-family home sites at Magnolia Park, the popular, gated family community off Progress Blvd. and Falkenburg Rd. west of U.S. 301 in Riverview. Sean Strickler, vice president of sales and marketing for PulteGroup in the North Florida region, said the new phase includes a variety of options including waterfront home sites, oversized home sites and many with nature preserve views. Strickler said Centex is building one and two-story single-family homes in the new phase in 11 distinctive floor plans priced from $164,990. New three, four, five, six and seven-bedroom single-family homes at Magnolia Park range in size from 1,405 square feet of living space to 3,476 square feet with two-car garages and low maintenance lawn care. Two of the single-family home designs are decorated models and available for daily tours. Magnolia Park is a CDD debt-free community and features three tropical pools with cabanas, playgrounds, a basketball court and walking trails. The community is convenient to downtown Tampa, Brandon shopping centers and MacDill Air Force Base.

Lennar opening new phase at Independence in Winter Garden

WINTER GARDEN, Fla. --- Lennar is opening a new phase of homes at its community, Independence, located on Independence Parkway off Ficquette Road and SR 535 in Winter Garden. Mark Metheny, president of Lennar’s Central Florida Division, said homes in the new phase at Independence will range in size from 1,700 square feet of living area to 4,200 square feet with prices starting from the mid-$200s. One model home has been completed and ready for viewing, Metheny added. All Lennar homes at Independence feature the homebuilder’s “Everything’s Included” pledge: a wide range of GE energy smart appliances, special features and upgrades at the one Lennar “everything’s included” price, Metheny said. Independence is convenient to major highways and the shopping and entertainment at Winter Garden Village at Fowler Groves. Visit www.lennar.com.

Park Square Homes has 10 Ready-To-Move-in Homes in five Central Florida Communities

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Park Square Homes has 10 move-in ready luxury homes priced from the $200s to more than $500,000 in five Central Florida communities in Mount Dora, Davenport, Harmony in Osceola County, Ocoee in West Orange County and in Southeast Orlando’s Lake Nona area. Anthony Rouhana, sales and marketing coordinator for Park Square Homes, said several of the homes have already opened and some are under construction, scheduled to open by October. The move-in ready homes include five at Solterra Resort in Davenport priced from the high $300s; one in Harmony, the unique master-planned community near St. Cloud in Osceola County, two luxury townhomes at Prairie Lake Reserve in Ocoee, two single-family homes at Summerbrooke in Mount Dora and two at Waters Edge by Lake Nona. For more information, visit www.parksquarehomes.com

Lennar Opens Unique Neighborhood Amenity Center at Twin Eagles Golf Community in Naples

Naples, Fla. --- With only 600 golf members, the Twin Eagles community offers new home buyers something most golf communities can’t match: 36 resplendent holes of golf, and none of it crowded. Now Twin Eagles has a unique new 47,000-square foot neighborhood amenity center to match. Matt Devereaux, director of sales and marketing for Lennar Homes in the Southwest Florida Division, said the new "Exclusively Inclusive" neighborhood amenity center includes a full outdoor chickee bar and restaurant, a state-of-the-art fitness facility and pro shop. “The Twin Eagles community is surrounded by a nature preserve so it is not uncommon to see deer on the golf course and beautiful eagles in the trees,” Devereaux said. Lennar builds two, three and four bedroom Executive Homes at Twin Eagles that range from 1,649 square feet of living space to 2,246 square feet, priced from $349,990 Twin Eagles ranks as one of the area’s premier golf communities and Twin Eagles home owners enjoy gorgeous preserve and golf course views along with miles of hiking, jogging, and walking paths. Lennar’s limited membership in the Twin Eagles Golf Club appeals to new and seasonal residents from the north. “At most golf courses up north, and at many golf courses all over Florida , during the season you have to reserve tee times a week in advance,” Devereaux said. “Twin Eagles was designed to take advantage of its environment and the developers planned a superlative golf course with 36 holes,” Devereaux said.

Unified Software Technologies hosting free Monthly Forum on Parallel or Distributed Applications and Systems Starting Sept. 24

ORLANDO, Fla. --- Unified Software Technologies LLC (UST) will host its next free monthly forum for software developers, IT managers and other IT professionals interested in multi-core, multi CPU, parallel or distributed computing systems on Sept. 24 at 6 p.m. in Room 211 of the University Tower Building, 12201 Research Parkway in the Central Florida Research Park adjacent to UCF. Ken Pierce, vice president of business development at Unified Software Technologies, said the forum will explore new methods and technologies that "unlock" the processing potential of modern computer hardware. “New technologies utilizing multi-core, multi CPU, parallel or distributed computing systems can significantly maximize performance, efficiency and stability of large-scale IT systems in the finance, healthcare, defense, gaming and simulation industries,” Pierce explained. On Sept. 24 Layton Perrin, chief technology officer of Unified Software Technologies, will present a demonstration of UST’s new Lock Free Library and Web Server Software “Speed.” Pierce said the monthly forum, which launched in June, has 16 members. For more information, visit http://www.meetup.com/Orlando-Lock-Free-and-Parallel-Computing/ or telephone Pierce at 407-796-2990. United Software Technologies is a member of the University of Central Florida Business Incubation Program in the Central Florida Research Park in East Orange County.

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.