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■ Focus on: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE, pages 14-21
Inside:
Editor’s Notebook:
BDP welcomes “return” of partnership
founder George Mirabal … Page 4
The 10-year mission:
Business leaders working with county,
city on plan to create 10,000 jobs … Page 6
Home, temporary home:
New business offers short-term office
spaces in Palm Coast … Page 10
February 2, 2009
The France
family’s
other
project:
Construction underway for first of multi-building
complex along Halifax River … Page 14
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ON THE COVER: The France family’s other project: Construction is
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built on France family-owned property, just south of Sunset Harbor Yacht
Club. The project will also include a second office building, a 13-story luxury
condominium tower and a marina. The family, of course, is also involved in a
much higher profile project, which is also currently under construction: the
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■ Focus on: COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE, pages 14-21
Inside:
Editor’s Notebook:
BDP welcomes “return” of partnership
founder George Mirabal … Page 4
The 10-year plan:
Daytona Chamber unveils goal of creating
10,000 jobs over next decade … Page 6
February 2, 2009
Cover design: John Klipfel
Home, temporary home:
New business offers short-term office
spaces in Palm Coast … Page 10
The France
family’s
other
project:
Construction underway for first of multi-building
complex along Halifax River … Page 14
INSIDE:
Editor’s Notebook: BDP welcomes “return” of partnership founder
George Mirabal..............................................................................................................................................Page 4
The 10-year plan: Daytona Chamber unveils ambitious goal of creating
10,000 jobs over the next decade..........................................................................................................Page 6
BDP opens “westside” office at West Volusia Chamber ..........................................................Page 7
Briefs ..................................................................................................................................................................Page 8
Home, temporary home: New business offers furnished office units
for rent on short-term basis in Palm Coast....................................................................................Page 10
Business Scene: Beach Street Courtyard dedication draws 250+ crowd ........................Page 12
People on the Move ..................................................................................................................................Page 13
Jeffrey Gitomer: What’s your resolve this year? Will you go all out? ................................Page 22
Calendar of upcoming local business events ..............................................................................Page 23
Focus: Commercial Real Estate
The France family’s other project: Construction underway for first
of planned multi-building complex on Halifax River ..............................................................Page 14
Real Estate Roundup: Status uncertain? Company puts site
for future HQ up for sale, while still shopping existing site ..................................................Page 16
Big break for Gateway: Developers of stalled project get verbal
commitment from hotel chain ............................................................................................................Page 18
The List: Area’s largest commercial real estate companies ..................................................Page 20
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February 2, 2009
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Opinions
Chamber, BDP welcome “return” of familiar face: retired chamber exec Mirabal
W
hen George Mirabal retired in January
2007 after 19 years as president of the
Daytona Beach/Halifax Area Chamber of
Commerce, he told a reporter that he just
bought a new set of golf clubs in hopes of finally
getting to hone his skills on the links.
Two years later, Mirabal admits his golf
game hasn’t really improved, noting he has
come to realize “it’s the
archer, not the arrows” that
was the problem.
Of course, he also hasn’t
spent nearly as much time
as he thought he would
using his clubs.
While he no longer gets
up everyday at 5:15 a.m., as
Mirabal
he did when he was chamber president, Mirabal has kept busy in his
“retirement,” serving as a consultant both to the
chamber and to a number of area developers, as
well as campaign manager this past fall for
Nancy Epps in the former Ponce Inlet mayor’s
recent bid to get elected to an open seat on
the Volusia County Council. (Epps narrowly lost
Clayton
Park
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to Josh Wagner in the November election.)
In October, Mirabal accepted an invitation
by his successor, Larry McKinney, to come back
to work for the chamber on a half-time basis as
executive vice president of the Business
Development Partnership, the chamber’s
economic development arm.
Mirabal, who oversaw the formation of the
BDP in 2001, began his new job Jan. 5.
The BDP’s staff includes Sam Goodwin, the
partnership’s longtime economic development
administrator whose primary focus is bringing
in leads on potential new employers to recruit to
the area; Katie Conrad, who does marketing,
promotions and research work both for the BDP
as well as for the chamber; and McKinney who,
in addition to his duties as chamber president,
helps “set the tone” for the BDP in terms of
strategic planning and visioning, and is available
whenever needed to assist in economic
development efforts.
Mirabal, a Port Orange resident who celebrated his 70th birthday in July, “was the first person I had in mind” to take over the role of leading
the BDP on a day-to-day basis, said McKinney.
Mirabal is not only knowledgeable about
and well-respected in the community, but also a
person with “great communication skills” who
has experience in economic development,
having been involved over the years in “a lot
of big pitches” to potential new employers,
said McKinney.
In rejoining the chamber staff, Mirabal
agreed to give up any private consulting work
that might conflict with the chamber and BDP,
said McKinney.
In addition to his skills and experience, Mirabal brings a passion and enthusiasm to the job
that is readily apparent to those who meet him.
“My role is to look at where the BDP is right
now and how we function and help shape the
future direction and future operation (of the or-
ganization),” said Mirabal. One challenge facing
the BDP that was different from when he was
president of the chamber is the current
recession — a time when many companies are
looking to downsize, not expand, he noted.
Mirabal said one of his tasks will be
identifying the silver linings to the economic
downturn that might be opportunities for
creating jobs locally.
Mirabal half-jokingly said his wife is already
yelling at him for getting up at 5:30 in the morning to go to work, when those days were supposed to be behind him. He also has been putting in longer hours at the office so far than his
allotted 20 hours a week – by his own choice —
so he can get up to speed as soon as possible.
“This is the only way I know how to do it,”
he said.
His golf game may not be getting any better,
but Mirabal’s return to the BDP certainly makes
the local economy’s prospects for recovery
seem a little more hopeful.
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The 10-year mission
Area business leaders working with county, city on plan to create 10,000 jobs
By Clayton Park
Business Report Staff
T
alk about setting the bar high.
At the Daytona Beach/Halifax Area
Chamber of Commerce’s annual dinner last
month, Ted Doran, as is customary for incoming chairpersons, spoke of the chamber’s
goals for the coming year.
At the top of the 2009 chamber chairman’s to-do list is working with city, county
and community leaders on a plan to create
10,000 jobs along the International Speedway Boulevard corridor, which stretches
from Interstate 95 east to the ocean, over the
next 10 years.
Never mind that fact that the announcement of this goal was being made in the
midst of what many consider to be the nation’s worst economic downturn since the
Great Depression.
The plan, as outlined by Doran, calls for
encouraging the further development of the
several “zones” or clusters, of like businesses, amenities and institutions that have already formed either directly along the sevenmile-long corridor or within the area roughly one mile to the north and south of ISB:
The city, for example, has already identified the beachside area that includes the
newly expanded Ocean Center convention
complex and the Ocean Walk Village retail/restaurant/hotel complex across the
street as an “entertainment zone.”
Other already existing zones along ISB
include the “educational zone” that includes
Daytona State College, Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University, the Daytona Beach
campus for the University of Central Florida
and Bethune-Cookman University; the
“sports/entertainment zone” that includes
Daytona International Speedway, the new
Daytona Beach Kennel Club and the future
Daytona Live! entertainment/retail/office
complex under construction across the
street from the Speedway; and the city’s historic downtown area along Beach Street that
also serves as an entertainment zone with its
collection of retail shops, restaurants and the
News-Journal Center performing arts center.
The area along Clyde Morris Boulevard,
just north of ISB, where Halifax Medical
Center and several medical practices are located has already become a “health zone,”
while the area along Fentress Boulevard,
north of ISB, which is home to companies
such as Raydon Corp. and AO Precision
Manufacturing, has become a “manufacturing zone.”
The corridor is also home to the “world’s
most famous beach,” Daytona Beach International Airport, Volusia Mall and several other
shopping centers, as well as a minor-league
baseball stadium, and the headquarters for
three publicly traded companies in Brown &
Brown, Consolidated-Tomoka and International Speedway Corp., noted Doran.
What’s more, the corridor, which itself is
an eight-lane highway, is connected to two
major interstate freeways: I-4 and I-95.
The one thing that’s missing, said Doran,
is a “seamless” transportation system such as
a monorail, trolley cars or shuttle buses that
can connect these various zones and allow
people to easily get from one “zone” to another along the corridor without having to
drive a car.
Doran, in an interview with the Business
Report following the chamber dinner, said
what he was attempting to do in giving his
speech was not call for some sort of new “visioning study” filled with vague pie-in-thesky aspirations, but to establish a concrete
goal – the creation of 10,000 local jobs in 10
years – which can be measured on an annual
basis as to whether progress is being made
toward achieving that mission.
“I didn’t come up with this. I’m not trying to take credit,” said Doran, noting that ongoing discussions between area business and
community leaders, the city and the county
have already been taking place on how to
encourage economic growth along the
ISB corridor.
The working title for the group is the
“ISB Corridor Coalition.”
Others involved in the coalition include
Daytona Beach City Manager Jim Chisholm,
County Manager Jim Dineen, Larry McKinney, president of the Daytona Beach/Halifax
Area Chamber, Rick Michael, director of the
county’s Department of Economic
Development, Bob Williams, vice president
of economic development for Daytona State
College and the 2009 co-chair of the
Business Development Partnership, and Jack
White, a Daytona Beach developer who has
been active in efforts to revitalize the city’s
historic Beach Street area.
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BDP opens “westside” office at West Volusia Chamber
By Clayton Park
A
year ago at its annual dinner, the Daytona Beach/Halifax Area Chamber of
Commerce announced its decision to expand
the scope of its economic development arm,
the Business Development Partnership, to include all of Volusia County, as opposed to its
previous focus on just the greater Daytona
Beach area.
Last month, the county’s largest chamber
of commerce took a step it hopes will show
cities and businesses in west Volusia that
its pledge of a year ago is more than just
lip service.
On Jan. 16, Larry McKinney, president of
the Daytona Beach/Halifax Area Chamber,
met with Linda White, president of the Chamber of Commerce of West Volusia, to sign a
one-year lease to open a “westside” office for
the BDP in the West Volusia Chamber’s new
building in Orange City. The lease has the option of being renewed at the end of each year.
As part of the agreement, the West Volusia Chamber will provide the BDP with use of
a landline telephone, Internet access, use of
the chamber’s conference room and other
Photo: Georgette Rummel/West Volusia Chamber
Larry McKinney, president of the Daytona Beach/Halifax Area Chamber, and Linda White, president
of the Chamber of Commerce of West Volusia, put their signatures on an agreement by the West
Volusia Chamber to lease a space in its new building to the Business Development Partnership.
amenities, and, White added, coffee and a
well-stocked supply of M&M’s.
The BDP’s new westside office will be
staffed at least twice a week by Sam Goodwin,
the partnership’s economic development administrator, who happens to be a west Volusia
resident. “Sam lives in Deltona so he’s already
familiar with the area,” said White.
McKinney said Goodwin “will use (the
westside office) as a base of operations to host
(economic development) prospects, as well as
to host (west Volusia) city folks.”
McKinney added that both he and George
Mirabal, the BDP’s newly hired executive vice
president, will also use the westside office
from time to time to conduct economic development business on behalf of the partnership.
White said it made sense for the West Volusia Chamber to combine its economic development efforts with the BDP because it “centralizes the processing of leads (for attracting
new employers to the area), rather than fragmenting it.”
The West Volusia Chamber became a
member of the BDP last year.
The new West Volusia Chamber building,
which opened in December, is at 1656 S. Volusia Ave. The building also houses a small
business incubation center and a satellite office for the Small Business Development
Center at Daytona State College.
The chamber’s incubation center recently
welcomed its first tenant: Agility Accounting
LLC, which is run by Michael G. Wright, a
certified public accountant who decided to go
into business for himself on a fulltime basis after
being laid off in November from his job as chief
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in DeBary. Wright lives in Orange City.
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Canadian manufacturer
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Ormond Towne Square, a Publix grocery store-anchored neighborhood shopping center located at 1458 W. Granada
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Daytona Beach, which it built in 1986. Both
shopping centers are anchored by Publix
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serving on the board of directors for the
Ormond Beach Chamber of Commerce.
Commercial real estate brokers Michael
Cleeman and Rick Kaiser of Cohen and Company represented both the buyer and seller
in the sale of Ormond Towne Square.
Cleeman said Ormond Towne Square
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market a “few days” before the seller
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Jaffe “knew that the property would be a
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motorcycles and after-market seats for production
motorcycles plans to open a retail store/warehouse
facility in Ormond Beach that could potentially be
expanded down the road to include a small
manufacturing plant.
Ultimate Seat Company of Toronto plans to open
the facility at the Destination Daytona complex on US
Highway 1, just west of Interstate 95, in late February,
just in time for the start of Bike Week, the company’s
president, Des Hockey, told the News-Journal.
The Volusia County Council in December approved
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company’s goal of creating a minimum of 15 new jobs in
the greater Ormond Beach area.
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office spaces. Each is furnished with a desk,
chairs and a computer. The walls of the
offices are decorated with artwork.
There also is a furnished conference
room, presentation room, and lobby with a
full-time receptionist.
Clients can also sign up to receive mail at
Office Divvy via a private mailbox.
A separately owned business that offers
a similar service can be found in Volusia
County: Cornerstone Executive Suites on
LPGA Boulevard in Daytona Beach.
Office Divvy is the brainchild of business
partners Lisa Ekinci, her husband Kayhan
Ekinci, and Sim Taing.
Lisa Ekinci’s background is mostly as a
business consultant in New York City for
many years.
Kayhan Ekinci, a native and resident of
Turkey until moving to New York City in
1993, worked as the general manager for a
New Jersey-based travel package operator
for several years.
Desiring a change in pace, the Ekincis
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moved to Palm Coast in July 2004. Lisa remains an independent consultant for several
New York City-based companies, while Kayhan has stayed on with the travel package operator as a consultant.
The pair met Taing at The Humidor, a
cigar shop he owns at the European Village
on Palm Harbor Parkway in Palm Coast.
Taing began his career as a consultant for
accounting and auditing firms in Connecticut, before taking a job as a project
manager for Broad Vision, a Redwood City,
Calif.-based
company
that
creates
Web applications.
Taing moved to Palm Coast in 2005 and
remains with Broad Vision today as a
sales executive.
The trio formed Office Divvy last March.
“The three of us all work from home, but
sometimes we wish we had a physical office
to go to every now and then when we need
it. We knew there had to be plenty of other
professionals in the Palm Coast area who felt
the same way,” said Lisa Ekinci.
Today, Office Divvy has 28 clients. Its
clients include attorneys, accountants,
financial advisers, real estate brokers, franchise owners, and construction companies,
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among others.
“It’s catching on,” Kayhan Ekinci said.
“We definitely entered the market at a
go o d t i m e . S e ve ra l b u s i n e s s e s a re
downsizing and might be looking for a
service like this.”
Office Divvy plans to double the size of
its rentable office space by the third quarter.
Taing, who owns the 1,000-square-foot office
suite, also owns a same-size suite next door.
The partners also plan to open a second
location in the Town Center in Palm Coast
by the end of the fourth quarter or by early
next year.
Bates, who rented office space for a couple of hours a day over the course of three
months, said, “It was wonderful. It was
exactly what I needed. It helped me accomplish my goals, as well as make my visitors
feel comfortable.”
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Chris Anderson can be reached at
[email protected] or 386-681-2224.
BRIEFS from p. 8
as national secretary for the board of directors
of the Mobile Self
Storage Association.
Based in Alexandria,
Va., the MSSA is an
industry group that
represents 60 independently owned and
operated mobile (pickup and delivery) storage operators throughTobin
out the country.
Tobin is also active in the local community.
He currently serves as president-elect of the
Daytona Beach Leadership Council, treasurer of
the local chapter for the American Cancer
Society and immediate-past-president of the
Gator Club.
Tobin founded his business, AccuMobile
Storage, in 2002. The company, at 503 S. Nova
Road, employs three people.
Hospital names new
foundation director
Florida Hospital DeLand on Jan. 20
announced the appointment of Jennifer
Lyons as the new director of the hospital’s
foundation. Lyons was previously the
hospital’s director of Cardiopulmonary, Cath
& IR, Rehab, Sleep Disorders and Diabetes.
In her new role, she will be responsible for
promoting awareness,
building relationships
and identifying and
development opportunities for financial
support of the hospital and its efforts,
according to a press
release issued by
the hospital. She
Lyons
is a DeLand resident.
New managing broker for
Watson Realty in New Smyrna
Patsy Bradley was recently appointed
managing broker of the Watson Realty office
in New Smyrna Beach,
following the retirement
on Jan. 6 of long-time
manager Glenis Rogers,
who led the office for
24 years. Bradley has
been an agent with the
office since 1998 and
served four years as
sales manager. In her
Bradley
new role, Bradley
oversees 31 agents and two support
staffers.
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M
ore than 250 people, including city
officials, Realtors and prospective buyers, attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony on
Jan. 9 to mark the opening of the Beach
Street Courtyard luxury loft condominiums
and retail center at 128 S. Beach St., in downtown Daytona Beach.
Chadwick Real Estate Group is the
project’s developer.
Robert Abraham, chairman of the city’s
Downtown-Ballough Road Redevelopment
Area Board, and City Commissioner Sheila
McKay-Vaughan did the ribbon-cutting honors and welcomed those attending the festivities, which included cocktails, hors de oeuvres, music and self-guided tours.
McKay-Vaughan said the project – 12 lux-
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Shown left to right: Aswin Suri of Exit Realty Central; Robert Abraham, chairman of the DowntownBallough Rd. Redevelopment Board; Sheila McKay-Vaughn, Daytona Beach city commissioner and
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“We [city officials] tried for 15 years to
make this a commercial community and it
just didn’t work,” stated McKay-Vaughan in a
press release. “So, instead of building new
skyscrapers, we add a couple of floors across
from a beautiful park and hope that families
will come here to live and shop.”
Aswin Suri of Exit Realty Central, the
project’s marketing agent, said Beach Street
Courtyard, with its intimate setting and close
proximity to restaurants, shops, theaters and
other event venues, is designed to appeal to
both retirees and young professionals.
“We recently marketed mainly to young
professionals who now might be living in areas like Winter Park,” said Suri. “But, we’re
finding that the lofts are just as appealing to
retirees and second home buyers who would
like to be within walking distance of downtown activities.”
The one- and two-bedroom lofts – which
include garage parking, elevators, terraces and
river views – range in size from 1,304 to 2,135
square feet of living space. The townhomes
range in price from $399,000 to $599,000.
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People on the Move
Chalifour
Webster
Banking/Finance
James Moore & Co. in Daytona Beach has
promoted Zach Chalifour from staff
accountant to semi-senior accountant.
The company also recently promoted
Jennifer Webster from office network
administrator to office manager.
Healthcare
Florida Hospital DeLand has hired one
Piazza
Bautista
employee and promoted another:
Joel Bautista, M.D., has joined the
hospital as a general surgeon. In addition to
joining the hospital, Bautista has opened a
private medical practice at Victoria Park
Village Center in DeLand. He previously
worked as a general surgeon for a hospital
system in Missouri.
Jill Piazza has been promoted from
rehabilitative services manager to
rehabilitative and orthopedic services
director.
Gardinal
Real Estate
RE/MAX Oceanside in Flagler Beach
announced recently that two of its agents have
Millhollin
earned the title of accredited buyer representative, a designation given by the National
Association of Realtors: Annette Gardinal and
Jimmy Millhollin. Both are broker associates. ■
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The France family’s
other project
Construction underway for first of planned
multi-building complex on Halifax River
By Chris Anderson
N
ASCAR’s France family is planning to
develop a large mixed-use riverfront
project in Daytona Beach, the Business
Report has learned.
The France family has plans to build
a 200,000-square-foot multi-building office/residential/marina complex along the
Halifax River on Ballough Road, just south of
the Oakridge Boulevard Bridge, according to
a source close to the situation.
The France family plans to build a fivestory office building, 13-story luxury condominium high-rise, a separate office building
that will be reserved for private use by the
family, and a marina on the 12-acre chunk of
land it owns between Sunset Harbor Yacht
Club and Caribbean Jacks Restaurant &
Marina, according to the source.
The family is developing the project
under the name White River Investment
LP, according to Volusia County
property records.
The property records list White River Investment’s address as 1801 W. International
Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach – the same
address as International Speedway Corp. and
Daytona International Speedway.
ISC is currently involved as a joint-development partner with Baltimore-based The
Cordish Companies in developing a highprofile mixed-use complex called Daytona
Live!, on International Speedway Boulevard,
across the street from Daytona International
Speedway.
The first of several planned buildings for
the $437 million Daytona Live! project is
currently under construction: an eight-story
office building that will become the future
headquarters for ISC, NASCAR and
Grand-American Racing. Future phases will
add 200,000 square feet of restaurants, retail
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This architect’s rendering shows a proposed five-story, 26,855-square-foot office building the France
family plans to build on Ballough Road in Daytona Beach. The building would be part of a proposed
200,000-square-foot mixed-use complex.
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Construction is already well under way for the office building.
shops and live entertainment venues, a 14- France, Lesa France Kennedy, and Betty Jane
screen movie theater, a 160-room hotel, and France, widow of Bill France Jr., the former
450 residential units. ISC is a publicly traded NASCAR chairman who died in June 2007 at
company led by members of the France fami- age 74.
The remainder of the building will either
ly, including Jim France, chairman, and his
be leased or sold out to businesses, accordniece Lesa France Kennedy, president.
County records show the France family ing to the source.
The family also plans to develop a 13has owned the undeveloped property on
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be beneficial to the area.
tona Beach.
After hearing about the France family’s
Coleman Goodemote Construction is
the project’s general contractor. Ormond plans to develop a large project on their
Beach architect Benjamin Butera is the property that would include a 13-story condo
tower, Upton said, “I’m surprised to hear
project’s designer.
The office building is being built at the about the condo, but I’m really excited and
happy about the construction. It’s great that
north end of the France family property.
Upon the office building’s completion, a the Frances are investing in this area.”
Upton said he has “no plans at the mofew members of the France family will
temporarily use the building’s top floor until ment” for developing his parcel, but added:
the France family’s private office building is “Something nice will be there someday.”
It isn’t clear whether the France family’s
built on the property at a later date, the
source said.
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Status uncertain
Company puts site for future HQ up for sale, while still shopping existing site
A
n Ormond Beach-based beverage
distributor may be backing out of
plans to move to a new facility on the north
end of town.
S.R. Perrott — currently at 4 Perrott
Drive, on the north side of Granada Boulevard, just west of US Highway 1 — recently
decided to put up for sale a vacant parcel it
owns four miles to the north where it
planned to build its future headquarters.
Company officials did not return calls
seeking comment on whether this means
that plans to build the proposed 130,000square-foot building on US Highway 1, just
west of Hull Road, have been scrapped.
The proposed building, which would be
near the plant for suncare products maker
Hawaiian Tropic, was originally slated to begin construction this year and would have
been nearly twice the size of S.R. Perrott’s
present facilities.
The asking price for the vacant 13.5-acre
parcel is $3.95 million. S.R. Perrott paid $1.9
Chris
Anderson
Real Estate Roundup
million to acquire the property in 2005 from
Tomoka Holdings, according to county
records.
The company, which already had its current building up for sale in anticipation of
moving to the new digs, continues to market
its existing location with an asking price of
$7.25 million. The listing agent for S.R. Perrott’s current building and property is Ty
Wilson of TW Realty in Ormond Beach.
The Business Report was unable to
contact Wilson for comment.
With both its present location and its
would-have-been future home now up for
sale, is the company trying to see which
The property where S.R. Perrott planned to build its future headquarters is now up for sale.
would have a better chance of fetching a
buyer before deciding whether to move
or stay put?
One local observer believes that might
be exactly what’s happening.
The observer, Erik Poole, an associate
commercial real estate broker with CB
Richard Ellis in Orlando, said it will be tough
for S.R. Perrott to sell its vacant parcel at the
asking price it is seeking, but added it might
have a better chance of selling than the
company’s existing location.
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“Right now, given the market, unless you
bought at a really good price and held onto it
for several years, it will be hard to sell raw
land and expect to get much in return,” said
Poole, who specializes in the Volusia-Flagler
area commercial real estate market.
S.R. Perrott was founded in 1962 by
Samuel Perrott. Today, the company is led by
Perrott’s daughter, Michele Connors.
The company distributes nearly three
million cases of Millers, Coors, and imported beer to retailers in northeast-central
Florida. Among the company’s clients are
local Publix supermarket stores and ABC
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S.R. Perrott employs about 135 workers,
making it one of the area’s largest
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Palm Coast medical office building — A
North Carolina developer will soon begin
building a medical office building in
Palm Coast.
Cary, N.C.-based Oaks Development
Group is building a two-story, 20,400square-foot building across the street from
Florida Hospital Flagler, off State Road 100,
just east of Seminole Woods Boulevard.
Rendering courtesy Oaks Development Group
Architect’s sketch of the proposed medical office building in Palm Coast.
Construction is slated to begin in March,
and is expected to be completed by the end
of the year, said Charles Barker, a partner in
Oaks Development.
MJ Harris Construction of Maitland has
been hired as the project’s general contractor, while Thomas Miller & Partners of
Brentwood, Tenn. has been tapped as the
project’s architect.
The company initially planned to start
construction late last summer and open the
facility before the end of the first quarter of
this year, but it “ran into a few problems with
the city with easement issues and other site
plan details,” Barker said.
The estimated cost to build the medical
office building is $7.5 million.
Oaks Development paid $2 million in
It’s not where you bank…
it’s who you bank with.
January of last year to acquire the 1.13-acre
parcel from Seminole 100 Developers Inc.,
according to Flagler County property
records.
The company chose Palm Coast as the
site for its planned
medical office building because of the
area’s appeal and
growth, said Charlie
Hughes, Oaks Development’s project
manager, referring to
the fact that Flagler
County led the naHughes
tion in percentage of
population growth for several years during
the housing boom.
The close proximity of the project site to
the Florida Hospital Flagler campus is also a
big plus, he said.
Oaks Development already has sold fractional ownership shares for spaces in the
planned building to several businesses, including a dentist, pediatrician, and a physician’s lab. To date, approximately half of the
available spaces in the building have been
snapped up by future tenants, Hughes said.
The company offers what it describes as
“a hybrid ownership structure” at its
development properties in which tenants
buy their spaces and essentially lease them
to themselves at an average cost of $26
a square foot.
A single-purpose limited liability corporation is established for the building. Tenants
buy fractional ownership stakes in the building, which is divided based on how much
space each tenant occupies. Oaks Development will retain a 25 percent ownership
stake in the property.
The company has developed more than
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Big break for Gateway?
Developers of stalled mixed-use project get verbal commitment from hotel chain
By Chris Anderson
T
Architect’s rendering of the proposed Gateway Daytona project.
he developers of a stalled hotel/condo/marina development in
Daytona Beach, who recently received
an 18-month extension of the building
permits for the project, may have
finally gotten the big break they were
waiting for.
An official with the project’s developer, Fort Lauderdale-based Blue
Water, said his group recently received
a verbal commitment from a major
hotel chain, which has agreed to
operate a full-service hotel at the
proposed $200 million Gateway
Daytona project.
The agreement, which was made
in early January, “means we are
halfway there” to making the project a
reality, said Mike O’Leary, a partner in
Blue Water. “Now, we have to get the
Rendering courtesy Blue Water
funding (for the project).”
O’Leary declined to identify the
hotel chain, but described it as a “flag
hotel,” meaning that it is a major brand
name.
Blue Water has been working to
develop its Gateway Daytona project
since early 2007.
The project calls for the development of a 16-story, 300-room hotel,
a 16-unit condominium complex,
and 153-slip marina on a 5.5-acre
parcel along the Halifax River. The site
is near the northwest corner
of the International Speedway
Boulevard/South Halifax Avenue
intersection.
On Jan. 7, the city commission
granted the developers’ request for an
extension of the deadline for beginning construction of the Gateway
Daytona project, which if it had not
been extended would most likely have
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permits for the project.
The reprieve came shortly after Blue
Water received the verbal agreement from
the hotel chain, which should greatly aid the
developers’ efforts to secure the financing
needed to complete the project.
Local observer Gary Brown, owner of
the Sun Viking Lodge hotel in Daytona
Beach, speculated that the mystery hotel
chain could be Marriott, since the Washington, D.C.-based chain doesn’t have a fullservice hotel in Volusia County. “Marriott
also likes to have waterfront resorts,”
he said.
The only Marriott hotel in the county is
a Courtyard by Marriott, located off of
International Speedway Boulevard in
Daytona Beach. The nearest full-service
the Business Report say the Gateway project
has the potential to change the face of the
greater Daytona area’s beachside area.
“From an aesthetic and development
standpoint, the project would be a tremendous thing for the city,” said Charles Lichtig-
“We’re very excited about the
project. It’s in a great location.
Daytona Beach has a great future.”
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has developed projects similar to the one
planned here in Fort Lauderdale, Deerfield
Beach and Fort Pierce.
In addition to O’Leary, Blue Water’s
other partners are Kash Patel, Damaso
Saabedra and Philip Schuman.
“We’re very excited about the project. It’s
in a great location. Daytona Beach has a
great future,” said O’Leary.
Local businesspeople who spoke with
man, chairman and chief executive officer of
Charles Wayne Properties in Daytona Beach.
“It could really spark other development.”
Dwight Selby, owner of Selby Realty
in Ormond Beach, echoed Lichtigman’s
thoughts: “It’s a great project in a great location. If you go anywhere in the state, you’ll
see a building similar to the one planned
here that is the premiere facility on the main
drag of that area. We need something like
that here.”
“That sort of project is long overdue,”
said Claude Gardner, managing partner of
Prudential CRES Real Estate in Daytona
Beach. “We currently have an appalling way
of welcoming visitors beachside. I think this
project would be a catalyst to a renaissance.”
Claire Hunter of Claire Hunter Realty in
Ormond Beach, said, “It could be a viable
project that would bring some light to the
downtown area. This project would be a step
in the right direction.”
That’s not to say the coast is now clear
for the project, even if the hotel chain does
sign on as a tenant.
Hunter said she’s concerned about Blue
Water being able to sell the project’s 16
condo units. “It would take some time to sell
them because there are so many empty
condos in the area.”
Lichtigman echoed those comments.
“Things are so uncertain with condos and
hotels right now,” he said. “It’s just not a
guarantee that (the planned condo units)
would sell.”
Selby wondered if the project would get
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Top Local Executive
Address,
Phone and Web site
No. Properties Sold/Leased
Value of Properties
Sold/Leased
1
Charles Wayne Properties, Inc.
Charles S. Lichtigman
444 Seabreeze Blvd., Suite 1000
Daytona Beach, 32118
(386) 238-3600
www.charleswayne.com
118
$90,873,648
2
Prudential CRES Commercial Real
Estate
Claude Gardner
120 S. Palmetto Ave.
(386) 253-8565
www.daytonacommercialrealestate.com
175
$56,479,040
3
Coldwell Bank AI Group
John Wannamaker
1019 Town Center Dr. Ste 200
Orange City, 32763
(386) 775-8833
www.cbcaigroup.com
34
$29,813,452
4
Selby Realty Inc.
Dwight C. Selby
200 E. Granada Blvd., Suite 200
Ormond Beach, 32176
(386) 238-4456
www.selbyrealty.com
25
$25,504,000
5
The Baumgartner Company
Roger Baumgartner
101 N. Woodland Blvd., suite 100
DeLand, 32720
(386) 734-1665
www.thebaumgartnerco.com
17
$12,100,000
6
Martin Daytona Realty
Robert Martin
1440 N. Nova Road, Ste. 301
(386) 238-5577
www.martindaytonarealty.com
12
$11,000,000
7
Prudential Warren Real Estate
Chuck Warren
1 Florida Park Drive South, Suite 1
Palm Coast, 32137
(386) 446-2900
www.prudentialwarren.com
17
$5,030,000
8
Commercial World Inc.
Rob Robinson
One Hargrove Grade, Suite 1
Palm Coast, 32137
(386) 445-9494
www.commercialworldre.com
25
$5,000,000
9
Ocean Properties
Tom Alcorn
3500 S. Atlantic Ave.
New Smyrna Beach, 32169
(386) 428-0975
www.oceanprops.com
7
$4,500,000
10
Tri-Square Realty
Ron Nowviskie
275 Clyde Morris Blvd.,
Ormond Beach, 32174
(386) 671-4900
www.trisquarerealty.com
13
$3,340,000
11
Tyler Property Management LLC
Steve Tyler
1034 Ridgewood Ave. #1
Holly Hill, FL, 32117
386-255-8585
www.tylerpropertymgmt.com
8
$1,870,000
12
Realty Capital B
Bob Lovelace
495 South Nova Road, Suite 101B
Ormond Beach, 32174
(386) 673-0280
www.RealtyCapitalFl.com
8
$526,000
13
Commercial Properties of Volusia
County
Bob Rhein
402 Seabreeze
(386) 615-1400
8
$500,000
14
Edwards Realty & Inv., Inc. C
Carole Edwards and Johnny Edwards,
Owners
320 Sanchez Ave.
Ormond Beach, 32174
(386) 672-7773
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requested that companies report gross sales counting the list side at full volume and the sale side at full volume if the company was involved in both and that a cobroker deal would count
as full volume only once. Only companies that responded to our email survey request for information are included. This list includes companies that sell commercial real estate and have
an office in Volusia or Flagler counties. For more information, contact the Business Report via email at [email protected].
B The majority of sales and lease volume for Realty Capital occured outside Volusia/Flagler counties in Orange, Seminole, Osceola and Lake County markets.
C Edwards Realty is commercial only, based in Volusia County but sales in 08 were in Orange County, Seminole, and Escambia Counties.
February 2, 2009 21
ROUNDUP from p.17
The France family’s Ballough Road property, as seen from the Halifax River.
FRANCE from p.15
plans to build a new marina will result in the
demolition of their existing private marina
or whether the older marina would be incorporated into the larger project.
The source couldn’t provide a timeline
for when the family hopes to begin construction of the condo high-rise, private
family office building, or marina.
Local business leaders applauded the
France family’s plans to develop a portion of
the Halifax River waterfront, upon learning
of the project.
Claire Hunter, who owns Claire Hunter
Realty in Ormond Beach, said the riverfront
project is “a very positive move. ... Although
it is a very ambitious project, (the Frances)
are smart people and will do very well.”
Charles Lichtigman, chairman and CEO
of Charles Wayne Properties in Daytona
Beach, said, “It would be a good thing for the
area. … Overall, in recent years, waterfront
property has been underutilized. I’m sure
the Frances will do a terrific job.”
Sheila McKay-Vaughan, a Daytona
Beach City Commissioner, called the France
family’s plans “exciting.” “I’m definitely in
favor of developing that area,” she said.
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Health recently completed the construction
of a hospice patient care center in Edgewater.
The 17,000-square-foot, 12-bed facility
will be operated by
Hospice of Volusia/Flagler, which is
part of the Halifax
Health hospital system. The Southeast
Care Center is located at 4140 S. Ridgewood Ave., across
the street from the
Fran Davis
assembly plant for recreational boat maker
Boston Whaler.
Construction of the $5 million center
started last February and finished in
November, said Fran Davis, CEO of
Hospice of Volusia/Flagler. The center
started taking patients in mid-January.
Hospice hired MJ Harris Construction
of Maitland to build the center.
The center employs about 40 people,
including 10 registered nurses, seven
licensed practical nurses, and nine
nursing assistants.
Hospice opened a $6 million patient
care center on Veterans Memorial Parkway
This is the inside of the newly-constructed
17,000-square-foot, 12-bed Southeast Care
Center in Edgewater.
in Orange City in late 2007. The West
Volusia Care Center is a 28,000-squarefoot, 18-bed facility.
Hospice has three other care centers in
Port Orange, New Smyrna Beach, and
Palm Coast.
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What’s your resolve this year? Will you go all out?
I
t’s another year. Good riddance 2008.
This year can’t be much worse. Or can
it? The good news is we’re at a point of
fresh start, new beginnings. New president.
New regime. New ball game. New ideas.
New hope.
What’s going to be new about you? What
“new” are you committed to?
One thing is for sure. I’m not waiting to
see what happens. I’m taking massive action
today. My hope is that my actions match or
exceed the economy’s progress.
Historically, business reacts faster than
government. I don’t know about you, but I
want to be on the leading edge, not the waitand-see edge.
When the economy begins to return, I
want to be right in front of it, not reading
about it in the paper, or watching some talking head tell me about it.
This is not a resolution; it’s a resolve –
and a game plan.
Maybe if I tell you what I plan to do, it
will inspire you to do more.
Below are my objectives for the first 100
days of 2009. Not all will be completed in
BIZSCENE from p. 12
Suri said several potential buyers are in
the process of being pre-approved by local
lenders after more than 100 people toured
Beach Street Courtyard at a soft opening in
December. He said he expects the remaining
units to sell within 90 days.
As incentive, Chadwick has reduced the
price of each loft by as much as $125,000, will
pay the buyers’ closing costs and is offering
that timeframe, but all will be implemented
and in full motion.
• All out sales campaign. Contact every customer we have ever done business with – offer them help, ask them where the most help
is needed, and ask them for more business.
• All out improvement of customer service.
Faster shipping, faster turnaround of training
modules, faster response to needs and questions, and memorable recovery for the rare
mistakes we make. More proactive customer
communications – thank you’s and confirmations are the order of the day. Every day.
• All out branding. My writing, my column,
my e-zine, my Web site, and all my promotions will reflect the value my customer can
relate to, and want more of.
• All out relationship building. “Value first” is
the key. Consistent communication is the
a free membership at nearby Sunset Harbor
Yacht Club.
Like the developers, Commissioner
McKay-Vaughan said she is excited to see
Beach Street Courtyard welcome new residents and hopes that developers will create
more redevelopment projects like it.
“I hope that this is just the beginning of
this kind of re-development,” said McKayVaughan. “It’s a really good example of the
new urbanism.” ■
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secret. Increase the value of my Web site and
weekly e-zine.
• All out internal education with a focus on
attitude and trust. In order to offer the best of
everything, my team (actually my family) will
have to be their best. I have hundreds of
hours of sales, customer loyalty, attitude,
trust, and personal development training
available, and my inside team will be the
first to take advantage of it.
• All out self-education. More student, less
TV. Read more. Study the history of sales
and personal development more. Write
more philosophical discoveries and
understandings.
• All out work my hardest. I will complete
three books this year. I will give 100 presentations. I will make certain all my content,
whether in books or in seminars, is the most
relevant, real world, and transferable as I am
able to make it.
• All out work my best. Own my time. Invest
my time. Be more organized and more
productive in my early hours of the day.
• All out be my best. Increased focus on personal excellence, both at work and at home.
MISSION from p. 6
jobs in 10 years is not only possible, but a
goal that is well within the community’s
ability to achieve if it works together.
He’s not the only one.
“From the city’s perspective, it (the goal
of creating 10,000 jobs) is absolutely do-able
and the county agrees,” said Hardy Smith,
government relations administrator for the
City of Daytona Beach.
Smith said Chisholm and Dineen began
discussions two-and-a-half years ago about
how to tap the potential for economic
growth along the ISB corridor.
“The ISB corridor … has the opportunity
to be a mega-generator of jobs,” said Smith,
“but it going to have to have the infrastructure (in place) to do that.”
White, in an e-mail to the Business
Report, stated that coalition members have
Be the best dad, best granddad, best friend,
best boss, and best person I can be.
The key words are “all out.”
This is not a time for waiting. This is a
time for DOING. What are you going “all
out” to achieve this year?
At this time of year, most people write
down a few namby-pamby resolutions or
goals. Lose 10 pounds, read more books, exercise more, join a health club, keep a clean desk,
and other dead-end wishes that will fade in
less than a month. Don’t let this be you.
Why not add “all out” to whatever you
write down so you are determined to take some
real action, and commit to an all out effort to
achieve for yourself ? Seems pretty simple –
challenge yourself to become the best.
■
Jeffrey Gitomer is the author of “The Sales
Bible” and “The Little Red Book of Selling.”
President of Charlotte, N.C.-based Buy
Gitomer, he gives seminars, runs annual sales
meetings, and conducts Internet training
programs on selling and customer service. He can
be reached at [email protected] or at
704-333-1112.
started referring to the stretch along ISB,
between I-95 and the ocean, as the “Creative
Corridor.”
“If planned properly, this could be a huge
push for the future of Daytona Beach as a
‘healthy city,” wrote White. “When I say
healthy, I mean one that has put in the
planning to secure (its) future.”
White added: “It is important to have as
many people at the table as possible to get
as much buy in as possible. That will be the
only way to succeed with any plan.”
McKinney said the coalition’s efforts to
work collaboratively “is really just good, effective planning. What’s great about this, is
this is not just a feel-good exercise – it’s
about taking a leadership position” to make
the goal of creating local jobs a reality.
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[email protected] or at 386-681-2470.
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Calendar Upcoming local business events
February
Friday 6
Commerce, breakfast meeting, 7:45 a.m. Location TBD.
Tuesday 3
Ormond Beach Chamber of Commerce, Expo
committee, 1 p.m. at chamber, 165 W. Granada Blvd., Ormond
Beach. RSVP: 677-3454.
Wednesday 4
Commerce, power lunch leads group, noon at UNO
Chicago Grill, 1798 W. International Speedway Blvd., Daytona
Beach. Info: 255-0981, ext. 228.
Small Business Development Center, seminar
on how to start your own business, 6-9 p.m. at Daytona State
College’s Daytona Beach campus, 1200 W. International
Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach, building 110, room 249. Info:
506-4723.
Thursday 5
Holly Hill Chamber of Commerce, after-hours, 5
p.m. Location TBD. Cost: $5. RSVP: 255-7311.
Small Business Development Center,
seminar on how to start your own business, 6-9 p.m. at
Daytona State College’s DeLand campus, 1155 CR 4139.
Info: 506-4723.
Small Business Development Center, work-
shop on how to use QuickBooks software, 6-9 p.m. at Daytona State College’s Daytona Beach campus, 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach, building 110, room
248. Info: 506-4723.
Info: 255-0981, ext. 228.
Port Orange/South Daytona Chamber of
Commerce, breakfast, 8 a.m. at Port Orange YMCA, 4701
City Center Pkwy., Port Orange. Cost: free to members; nonmembers pay $10. RSVP: 761-1601.
sources division meeting, 7:45 a.m. at Daytona Beach International Airport, 700 Catalina Drive, Daytona Beach. Topic:
How to effectively handle terminations/layoffs. Cost: $17.
RSVP: 673-0505.
Daytona State College’s Daytona Beach campus, 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach, building 110,
room 248. Info: 506-4723.
Wednesday 11
on business financing, 6-9 p.m. at Daytona State College’s
DeLand campus, 1155 CR 4139. Info: 506-4723.
Flagler County Chamber of Commerce, meet-
and-greet breakfast, 7:30-9 a.m. at Taste of Portugal, 15A
Palm Harbor Village Way, Palm Coast. Speaker: Ned Harper,
director the Small Business Development Center. Topic: navigating financial stability. Cost: $7. RSVP: 437-0106.
Saturday 7
Beach. Info: 255-0981, ext. 228.
Valentine’s Day charity ball, 6-9 p.m. at Brannon Center, 105
S. Riverside Drive, New Smyrna Beach. Proceeds go to Edgewater Fitness Center, Senior Fitness Program, and the Bert
Fish Medical Foundation. Cost: $50 per person; $75 per couple. RSVP: 428-3697.
Southeast Volusia Chamber of Commerce,
Monday 9
Beach. Info: 255-0981, ext. 228.
Commerce, small business council, 4 p.m. at chamber,
3431 S Ridgewood Ave., Port Orange. Info: 761-1601.
Tuesday 10
on business financing, 6-9 p.m. at Daytona State College’s
Daytona Beach campus, 1200 W. International Speedway
Blvd., Daytona Beach, building 110, room 249. Info: 506-4723.
Commerce, business women’s council, noon at chamber,
3431 Ridgewood Ave., Port Orange. Info: 761-1601.
Thursday 12
Commerce, executive board meeting, 8 a.m. at Bob
Evans Restaurant, 1711 Dunlawton Ave., Port Orange. Info:
761-1601.
Volusia Home Builders Association, 2009 eco-
Commerce, new member reception, 8:30 a.m. at cham-
nomic outlook breakfast, 8:30 a.m. at Pelican Bay clubhouse,
350 Pelican Bay Drive, Daytona Beach. Cost: members pay
$18.99; non-members pay $28.99. RSVP: 226-1414.
Volusia Manufacturers Association, human re-
Small Business Development Center,
workshop on how to use QuickBooks software, 6-9 p.m. at
ber, 3431 Ridgewood Ave., Port Orange. Info: 761-1601.
Friday 13
Ormond Beach Chamber of Commerce,
breakfast, 7:30 a.m. at Oceanside Country Club, 75 N. Halifax
Drive, Ormond Beach. RSVP: 677-3454.
Commerce, economic and government affairs commit-
tee, 8 a.m. at chamber, 3431 Ridgewood Ave., Port Orange.
Info: 761-1601.
Daily
Service Corps of Retired Executives
(SCORE): free counseling for startup businesses by ap-
pointment on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays; free
counseling for existing businesses on Tuesdays. A free twohour workshop is offered Fridays in Daytona Beach, New
Smyrna Beach, Orange City, and Palm Coast. Info: 255-6889.
Small Business Development Center: offers
startup guides, business plan packets, and counseling sessions for entrepreneurs at Daytona State College, 1200 International Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach, building 110, room
224. Info: 506-4723.
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E-mail notices of upcoming business events for
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