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Beach Club, a luxury, master-planned community in the coastal village of Perdido Key, located a half-hour west of Pensacola.
» Jennifer Barrett and Matt Newcomer have joined Synovus/Coastal Bank and Trust as commercial bankers, located at the bank’s Pensacola office.
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» Coastal Bank and Trust, a division of NEWCOMER Synovus Bank, recently announced the appointment of Cyndi Warren to its local advisory board. Warren is managing member of the Pensacola office of Warren Averett CPAs and Advisors. » CBRE Group Inc., the world’s
largest commercial real-estate services firm, has officially opened the company’s new office in Miramar Beach. The company, which currently has seven offices across the state, entered this regional market in December 2015.
» First Partners Bank has expanded its loan production office into a full-service office. This is the first location in Florida for the Birmingham-based based bank and was originally intended to focus primarily on business lending and consumer mortgages. To meet growing market demands, the location will now function as a full-service office of First Partners Bank. The Destin office began servicing clients on July 11, 2016. » Chris Baker has joined Birmingham, Alabama-based First Partners Bank as branch manager of the Destin office. PHOTOS PROVIDED BY PROFILED INDIVIDUALS
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» Cindy Cole and Nikki Nickerson of Keller Williams Emerald Coast Realty were nationally named as most productive sales associates as a part of REAL Trends America’s Best Real Estate Agents for 2015 in a recently issued ranking report produced by REAL Trends and sponsored by Zillow Group and Trulia.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
» Nemours Children’s Specialty Care, a nationally ranked pediatric specialty care practice, is proud to wel- DESMANGLES come Jean-Claude Desmangles, M.D., to the endocrinology department in Pensacola. » Bill Mertins has joined First Florida Bank as a financial adviser with First Florida Wealth Group, which now has an office in Pensacola. » Charleigh Kennedy, of Pensacola-based marketing agency Ideawörks, has passed her Google Analytics KENNEDY Individual Qualification (IQ) Exam. » National home design and fur-
nishings retailer Pottery Barn will open shop at Grand Boulevard at Sandestin next spring. The Grand Boulevard Town Center is the first location in Northwest Florida to welcome the popular national retail innovator.
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Bill Fletcher of Freeport was recently sworn in as the new president of the Emerald Coast FLETCHER Children’s Advocacy Centers. Other new board members sworn in for the upcoming year were Shaun Eubanks, Maurice Stouse and Janine Pyle. Tom Cooper was sworn in as vice president and Alan Wood as treasurer.
» The University of West Florida Office of Economic Development and Engagement has awarded a $150,000 grant to Props Craft Brewery LLC, which will allow the company to expand into the mass manufacturing and distribution market by opening a new facility in Fort Walton Beach. » RE/MAX Commercial Brokers Inc. recently announced that the New Orleans-based equity investment group Five R Investments LLC has acquired the four-story Class B Office Building (One University Plaza) at 7282 Plantation Road and the neighboring retail and theater complex at 7280 Plantation Road in Pensacola for redevelopment. —COMPILED BY JASON DEHART
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