Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. purchased the 47,300-square-foot DeSears Appliance, Furniture & Mattress Store building at 1998 Fiesta Drive in Sarasota for $4.4 million from Rodney Dessberg. Chuck Palmeri of Re/Max Alliance Group represented the seller; Ashley Furniture was self-represented.

 

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R. Deborah, Stephen and Lisa Simone of Duck Key purchased 12.16 acres of land east of I-75 for $1.38 million from Timberlane, Inc. The property is approved as an RV or mobile home park. John Wentz of KW Commercial, a division of Keller Williams Realty, handled the sale.

 

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Publix Super Markets purchased the Lakewood Walk Shopping Center at 11215 E. S.R. 70 for $26.3 million from North American Properties of Cincinnati.

 

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The Posh Plum, LLC leased the approximately 7,600-square-foot building located at 4625 S Tamiami Trail from Martin Realty Investments, Inc. John B. Harshman of Harshman & Company, Inc. represented the landlord and Steve Cunningham of Land Quest Commercial represented the tenant.