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Remodelers honored for design work
By Times Staff Writer
© St. Petersburg Times
published March 1, 2003
The Florida West Coast chapter of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry presented awards Feb. 21 in its annual design competition.
The first-place winners are:
Residential specialty and residential kitchen, $30,000 to $60,000, Armstrong's Kitchen & Bath Ideas.
Residential kitchen, $60,000 and over; residential bath, $30,000 and over; and residential interior, Daniel E. Ashline Inc.
Residential bath, $15,000 to $30,000, and residential universal design, Emerald Contractors.
Architectural design, residential additions under $100,000 and residential historical renovation or restoration, Terry G. Perkins Construction.
Residential additions, $100,000 to $250,000, Mueller Remodeling.
Commercial interior, Herr Contracting Co.
Residential exterior and entire house remodel, Strobel Building.
Avatar to build in Tampa
Avatar Properties, developer of the Solivita retirement community in Central Florida, has purchased 620 homesites at Cory Lake Isles, off Bruce B. Downs Boulevard in New Tampa.
The purchase marks Avatar's entrance into the Tampa Bay market. Its other holdings are in Central and South Florida and in Arizona. The $15.6-million purchase includes 370 developed single-family homesites and an undeveloped townhome site for 250 multifamily residences.
The company expects to start presales this spring, and a model should be completed by summer. Avatar is both builder and developer.
Avatar's Poinciana, which includes Solivita, ranked fourth in sales among master-planned communities nationwide last year. Avatar also developed Bellalago, just south of Kissimmee.
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