Thornton Park gets medical-supply firm

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purchased a six-story office building with integrated parking at 622 E. Washington Street in downtown Orlando’s Thornton Park area for $7.9 million.

With 36,426 square feet and a 14,000-square-foot parking garage, the property fetched $200 a square foot. managed by Orlando residents John Paul Taylor and Brian Carwile, purchased the building and plans to occupy half the space as headquarters for its medical equipment company.

Vice President Jeff Bloom represented the buyer. John Worrell, of represented Craig Ustler’s Thornton Park Central LLC in its sale of the 2001 building. new project is being called 520 East and planned for 12 stories with 364 units on the southwest corner of East Church Street and South Eola Drive. Plans call for 7,000 square feet of groundfloor retail and a dozen studios that would combine retail/live/work uses. Amenities for what is being billed as a $100 million project include 630 parking spaces, pool and fitness center.

A Miami group with a Central Florida name purchased Winter Garden Regional Shopping Center, with 128,973 square feet at 14001 West Colonial Drive in Winter Garden for $11.4 million. David Donnellan, Daniel Baker and Patricia Friend represented the seller,

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and the Orange County Tax Collector. Donnelly said the property includes out parcel that could be developed on Colonial Drive. remodels in Florida and three in North Carolina. Locally, the work includes the Altamonte Springs store at 886 State Road 436, plus stores at 3343 Daniels Road in Winter Garden and 17450 U.S. Highway 441 in Mount Dora.

Sentencing for Orlando developer Lee John Maher has been delayed until July 20 at 9 a.m. before Judge Mark E. Walker in U.S. Courthouse in Tallahassee. Following a six-day hearing in December, his sentencing had initially been set for March 9. Maher was convicted of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and with retaining and concealing federal funds. Maher had been an officer in a biodiesel company named Clean Fuel Lakeland. He and another defendant fraudulently obtained funds under a federal grant, according to United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Florida. Maher helped develop Baldwin Park and Uptown Altamonte.