Town Center Project Update 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
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