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  • Duo’s Banking Connections Facilitate Land Sale

    By David Schull on July 18, 2014
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    Duo’s Banking Connections Facilitate Land Sale Eleazar David Melendez, Daily Business Review July 16, 2014 Thomas Angelo teamed up with Gavin Banta to close on a 2.88-acre St. Petersburg site planned for 358 luxury apartments and parking facilities. Dealmakers: Thomas Angelo and Gavin Banta The Deal: The Fort Lauderdale attorneys helped negotiate a land acquisition and associated financing for a […]
  • St. Regis Bal Harbour sells for $213M

    By Thomas Angelo on January 22, 2014
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    January 22, 2014 Paul Brinkmann Reporter- South Florida Business Journal The St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort, one of South Florida’s best-known luxury resorts, has sold for $213 million to a subsidiary of Qatar’s largest development company. The buyer is Qatar-based Al Rayyan Tourism Development Company. The sale by Starwood Resorts & Hotels is among the largest recent property transactions in […]
  • Big public company drops $54M on South Florida self-storage

    By Thomas Angelo on January 12, 2014
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    January 10, 2014 Paul Brinkmann Reporter- South Florida Business Journal Two self-storage facilities in South Florida have sold for $54 million. The buyer is Sovran Self Storage (NYSE: SSS), which operates 480 facilities under the Uncle Bob’s Self Storage brand. The seller, The Store Room, is an entity managed by Chicago investor Kent Haeger of High Street Capital. The price […]
  • Thomas Angelo named a Heavy Hitter in Commercial Real Estate-Lawyers by the South Florida Business Journal

    By Thomas Angelo on April 19, 2013
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    Commercial real estate stars shine amid rebound As a section, Heavy Hitters in Commercial Real Estate is fun because each person’s story is a piece of the overall real estate picture from 2012. For South Florida, that picture is improving, with retail, hospitality, industrial and residential rebounding. Even office, one of the market’s hardest-hit sectors, is on the mend, with […]
  • Angelo & Banta closes $160 million dollar loan for Mansions at Acqualina

    By Thomas Angelo on February 27, 2013
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    Oscar Pedro Musibay Reporter- South Florida Business Journal February 27, 2013 It could be a game changing kind of loan – the $160 million bank financing of the ultra-luxury, 79-unit Mansions at Acqualina. What it could mean is that banks have the same kind of confidence in the market that developers have had for more than a year. It could […]
  • The Museum of Discovery and Science holds its topping off celebration for the Ecodiscovery Center on April 12 2011

    By Thomas Angelo on April 4, 2011
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    The Museum of Discovery and Science is celebrating its 30th Anniversary with a major expansion – the new EcoDiscovery Center! The new wing will open visitors’ eyes to the global impact of climate change, the promise of alternative energy sources and the vital role of the Everglades in safeguarding Florida’s fragile water supply. In the new EcoDiscovery Center wing visitors […]
  • Midsize law firms pick up clients as companies turn from pricey giants

    By Thomas Angelo on July 6, 2009
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    By Chris Herring, The Wall Street Journal “Bigger is better” long has applied to hiring law firms. Generally, the larger the firm, the greater its prestige and the more likely it was to reel in corporate business. But to cut costs during the recession, U.S. businesses increasingly are handing work to less expensive small and midsize firms, typically those with […]
  • Why I live here by Tom Angelo as seen in the May 2009 issue of Florida Trend magazine

    By Thomas Angelo on May 1, 2009
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    As someone who grew up in New York City, I always wanted to find a place to live that had the vibrancy and culture of New York without the hassles of a long commute and a four-hour drive during the summer to the Hamptons. I have found all of that and more in Fort Lauderdale. My commute to work down […]
  • Angelo and Banta represents Autonation in headquarters relocation

    By Thomas Angelo on October 13, 2008
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    The law firm of Angelo & Banta, P.A. is pleased to announce it recently represented AutoNation in connection with a new lease for the relocation of its corporate headquarters from 110 SE 6th Street, Fort Lauderdale to 200 Las Olas Circle in downtown Fort Lauderdale. AutoNation will lease five floors at 200 Las Olas Circle containing approximately 105,000 square feet […]
  • Angelo and Banta Law Firm closes $67.5 million loan from Regions Bank to Plantation Residential LLC

    By Thomas Angelo on June 17, 2008
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    FT. LAUDERDALE – The firm’s managing shareholder, Thomas P. Angelo, as well as attorneys Philip M. Hanaka and Michael S. Foelster of Angelo & Banta, P.A., recently represented Regions Bank in closing a $67.5 million acquisition and construction loan to Plantation Residential LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, to finance the development and construction of a 481-unit luxury apartment project […]