Current Trends in Real Estate Investing - Sarasota Meeting - 02/08/18

Jim is a tax attorney.

His background as a CPA and businessman involved in his extended family’s agribusiness enterprises inform his unusually diverse practice experience. He regularly represents family business owners, entrepreneurs, and real estate investors in tax, transactional, financing, operational, succession, and estate planning matters. His experience includes joint venture, partnership, limited liability company, and other co-investment arrangements; mergers and acquisitions; individualized estate and succession planning for closely-held business owners; and tax advantaged real estate and business transactions.

Jim has substantial experience throughout southwest Florida with acquisition, development, operation, leasing, financing (including securitized loans and loan defeasance), sales and tax planning related to commercial real estate, including shopping centers, industrial warehouse and flex-space properties, storage facilities, office buildings, apartments, and agribusiness properties. Of particular note, Jim is known statewide for his representation of developers, owners, and operators of manufactured housing communities and RV parks.

Jim is a fourth-generation Floridian. He was born and raised in Sarasota and joined the firm upon graduating from law school. Jim became a shareholder in 1986.

IN MARCH, Kirk Boylston became president of Schroeder-Manatee Ranch Inc.’s LWR Commercial Realty, responsible for the development of all commercial, multifamily and apartment development in the 31,000-acre, master-planned community of Lakewood Ranch. Improvements are currently being made to include more than 6 million square feet of office, retail, hospitality and light industrial development, and Boylston is reaching out nationally to builders and investment funds. He’s also visiting companies in the Northeast and Canada to find tenants. “We’re trying to target more national tenants—offices and retailers that we haven’t had before, alternative-use types, such as biomedical or technical,” says Boylston, who has extensive contacts from his former position as regional director of EJM Development Co. in Las Vegas. “We want to increase the variety of jobs in Lakewood Ranch and attract a good pay scale range so the people who live here can also work here,” he says.

Angus Rogers is the Founder and President and CEO of Floridays Development Company, a Sarasota headquartered development company founded in 1990. Floridays has focused on the development of multi-family, luxury high-rise condominiums, single family subdivisions, resort and hotel development, assisted living and Alzheimer facilities and Planned Unit Developments.

Under Rogers’ guidance Floridays has grown to become a recognized and trusted leader with demonstrated vision in conceptualizing and executing solutions that shape project concept into marketable solutions.

Stephen B. Stagg is the Commercial Bank Executive for the West Coast of Florida for Regions Bank, which handles all banking needs for companies, institutions, governmental and nonprofit entities with annual revenues of greater than $20 million. Previously, Stagg was the CFO and a development partner with Harrod Properties, a full-service commercial real estate management and development company headquartered in Tampa. He was also with Florida Bank on two separate occasions; first, as the Executive Vice President and Director of Corporate Development from 2003-2006 and then as President of Florida Bank and Florida Bank Group from July 2009 through November 2010. Stagg’s undergraduate degree is from the University of Florida. He is active in local charity and business organizations, currently serving as a treasurer for the Tampa Bay chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) and a member of the advisory council for USF’s Diabetes Center. He was formerly the Treasurer of the Glazer Children’s Museum.