PROJECTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Here are some recent projects
and opportunities reported by
Florida Construction News online
and in our weekly eletter. You can
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news.com. Summit has built 36 charter
schools in Florida, South Carolina
and Michigan. the two-storey,
70,000 sq. ft. structure will be fol-
lowed by a future development
phase, including a 14,000 sq. ft.
gymnasium. Work begins on $106
million Miami
redevelopment Related Group and Miami-Dade
County have broken ground on
Three Round Towers B&C/Brisas del
Este in the Allapattah neighbor-
hood. The 383-unit project involves the
rehabilitation of two existing towers
and the creation of an adjacent new
construction building, reports Multi-
Housing News Online.
The existing Three Round Towers
development was built in 1970 on a
roughly 7-acre site at 2920 NW 18th
Ave. For the $106 million affordable
housing redevelopment project,
Miami-Dade County partnered with
Related Urban Development Group,
the affordable housing arm of de-
veloper Related Group.
Summit Construction to
start work on $20 million
North Naples charter
school Construction will start soon on a
new $20 million charter school in
North Naples.
Summit Construction Manage-
ment Group will build the Naples
Classical Academy (NCA) at 10270
Immokalee Rd., just east of Collier
Boulevard in North Naples. The proj-
ect is currently in the permitting
stage, Naples Florida Weekly has
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The 17-acre property is the cur-
rent location of Fogg’s Nursery,
which is relocating. The site was se-
lected for its proximity to the high-
growth intersection of Immokalee
Road and Collier Boulevard, which
includes Founders Square, a 55-
acre mixed-use development that is
currently under construction.
“We’re thrilled to launch Naples
Classical Academy in North Naples,
an area that is experiencing strong
residential and commercial growth,”
said Erika Donalds, president and
founder of The Optima Foundation,
the nonprofit charter management
organization that is helping estab-
lish and manage NCA. “This new tu-
ition-free public charter school’s
location offers the opportunity for
families in the surrounding areas to
choose a high-quality classical edu-
cation for their children.”
FDOT buying land for $40
million I-95 exit at Oslo
Road State officials are trying to ac-
quire 122 acres of property for a
new $40 million Interstate 95 exit at
Oslo Rd., reports TCPalm.
The Florida Department of Trans-
portation wants to begin construc-
tion in 2025 and has a budget of
about $11.5 million to buy about
122 acres of right of way adjacent
to I-95 for the project.
The project includes building a
new I-95 exit 5.5 miles north of the
Indrio Rd. exit and 3.8 miles south
of the I-95 exit south of State Rd.
60. Construction has been budgeted
for the 2025-2026 budget year, and
will take about three years.
Planning underway on
surfing complex and
mixed-use project in Fort
Pierce Developers are planning to build
a multi-million surfing complex and
a mixed-use development project in
the city of Fort Pierce.
Willow Lakes is a 200-acre com-
munity development that will in-
clude at least 800 residential
homes, 600 hotel rooms, 400,000
sq. ft. of retail space and 125,000
sq. ft. of office space, reports
Inman. The project is anticipated to cre-
ate about 3,400 jobs during the con-
struction phase. The first phase will
feature the WaveGarden simulated
surfing park, food and beverage fa-
cilities, and possibly a 150-room
hotel. Ash Grove to upgrade
cement import terminal in
Florida Cement supplier Ash Grove, a
CRH company, (formerly Suwannee
American Cement in Florida), says it
is undertaking a major transforma-
tion project at its Port Manatee
deep water import terminal. The
company says the project will im-
prove Ash Grove’s capacity to im-
port cement, cement slag and
flyash to meet the existing and fu-
ture needs of customers in the
Florida and South Georgia markets.
The upgrade project includes the
addition of a high capacity FLS/Ko-
vako ship unloader at the terminal,
PROJECTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
together with the upgrade of exist-
ing material transfer and electrical
systems, and the addition of self-
loading capabilities. Construction is
scheduled to begin in early 2021,
with the improved facility in full op-
eration by the end of that year.
“The infrastructure improve-
ments and new technology will also
increase efficiency and improve en-
vironmental performance at the
strategically located Port Manatee
terminal, leveraging its existing silo
capacity and complementing the
capabilities of Ash Grove’s cement
plants in Sumterville and Branford,”
the statement says.
“The underlying fundamentals in
the Florida market are positive with
good population and employment
growth. The upgrade of the Port
Manatee import terminal will ex-
pand our capabilities and
strengthen our ability to meet grow-
ing demand in the region,” said Ash
Grove regional president, Monica
Manolas. CanAm Enterprises invests
$50 million in Hialeah
warehouse park
CanAm Enterprises has invested
in a Hialeah warehouse project.
The EB-5 investment firm in-
vested $50 million into the County-
line Corporate Park project in
August. The money will fund con-
struction of 1.2 million sq. ft. of
warehouse space, reports the
Miami Herald.
Flagler Global Logistics is devel-
oping the 8.4 million-sq.-ft. indus-
trial park running from Northwest
154th to 170th streets and North-
west 97th to 107th avenues in
Hialeah. CanAm is expected to invest an-
other $125 million before the sum-
mer 2021.
prenticeship opportunities in con-
struction and technologies in the
Upper Keys.
Ground broken for 167-
room hotel near Tampa
Daniel Corporation begins
work on high-rise near
Tampa Bay’s massive
Water Street project
Moss Construction says it has
broken ground on J.W. Marriott
Clearwater Beach, a 167-room
beachfront hotel that will also fea-
ture 31 residential units in Clearwa-
ter. The 391,059-sq.-ft. building will
have a pool, bar, spa, meeting
rooms, ballrooms, fitness center, a
beachfront restaurant and about
250 feet of private beach.
Designed by Baker Barrios, the
project is situated on Clearwater
Beach at 691 S. Gulfview Blvd. The
developer is Kiran Patel.
A timeline for completion of the
project was not disclosed.
Construction begins on
new college building in
Upper Keys
Construction is underway on a
new building at the College of the
Florida Keys in the Upper Keys.
The new Category 5 facility build-
ing will allow the college to expand
programs in the Upper Keys that in-
clude nursing, emergency medical
technician, marine environmental
technology and public safety, re-
ports Keys Weekly.
The building is expected to be
completed in August 2021.
With a grant from the state De-
partment of Economic Opportunity,
the college is also expanding ap-
Birmingham, Alabama.-based
Daniel Corporation has purchased
land in Tampa Bay for a new resi-
dential development near the city’s
expansive Water Street project.
The 324-unit rental high rise
begin construction in the next few
weeks, with work to be completed
by the fall of 2022, the developer
said in a news release reported by
the Tampa Bay Times.
The project’s site is land at the
corner of E. Twiggs Street and
Channelside. The project is separate from the
Water Street project, a joint venture
of Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff
Vinik and Microsoft founder Bill
Gates, that is expected to be com-
pleted in 2026 or 2027 and is the
biggest real estate project in the
city’s history, the newspaper re-
ported. “With pedestrian access to
some of Tampa’s most exciting new
developments — including Water
Street Tampa ... we are thrilled to
have the opportunity to transform
Tampa’s most desirable undevel-
oped block,” the developer’s execu-
tive vice-president Justin Weintraub
said in a statement.
Daniel spokeswoman Burgoyne
McClendon told the newspaper that
the company will name the project
and launch a website with more in-
formation in the next few months.
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