Re Town Center Project Update (2)Fantastic news
I look forward to getting this project going!
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On May 10, 2016, at 4:38 PM, John W Gurney
<johng@okeechobeebusiness.com> wrote:
Conference call this afternoon with Duffy’s, attorneys, Brian
West and Steve Dobbs. Only a few changes to the contracts were required.
Those will be made today and final contracts will go to West and
Brantley tomorrow or Thursday for signing.
All parties are now fully on board and Steve answered all the
engineering questions as well. The Duffy are setting up a meeting in
Vegas where the committed tenants will gather to sign their contacts and
deliver their individual site plans. The Duffy’s will be building the
structures to suit and the tenants will handle the insides. The four
outparcels will be slab ready for whichever restaurants make the cut and
sign contracts first.
Once the land contracts are signed the Duffy’s will have a
total of 19.8 acres and the money needed to start moving forward with
the project. They couldn’t obtain the entire 22 acres originally
designated as the “Sisters” jumped the price way up too high for what
the property is worth. Steve will just design around that missing
corner. Once the properties have been secured they will be combined as a
unit and annexed into the City.
They have begun the site plans and will be saving as many of
the Live Oak trees as possible. Tree Locators may assist with moving a
few as they said they can handle the large trees.
So, the bottom line is we are getting very close to hitting
the GO button. Everyone on the call was very excited about the project,
which is always a good sign…. John
John W. Gurney, CWP PHR
Economic Development Director
Okeechobee County and City of Okeechobee
Cell: 863-532-2026 johng@okeechobeebusiness.com
<mailto:johng@okeechobeebusiness.com>
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