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FIVE YEARS LATER ‘What’s the deal with the Colony?’ is a question local tourism officials hear frequently.

Five years after the resort’s closing, there are no easy answers.

KURT SCHULTHEIS SENIOR EDITOR

The Colony Beach and Tennis Resort — a landmark for 41 years that gave many permanent residents their first glimpse of Longboat Key — closed its doors for good Aug. 15, 2010.

Five years later, the 18-acre beachfront resort remains locked up and vacant. A town building official reported during 2013 assessments of conditions at the resort: “It’s slowly collapsing upon itself.”

Efforts to redevelop the property have also collapsed.

Two agreements the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association signed with developers to resurrect the resort failed. There are more legal disputes and bankruptcy hearings than those following the process can count.

And the buildings at 1620 Gulf of Mexico Drive are nowhere close to being razed and rebuilt on the prime piece of Gulf-front real estate.

The impact of the dilapidated eyesore on Longboat Key is felt each and every day, according to officials and those involved with years of Colony legal disputes.

“When the Colony closed, the economy was going south, and other businesses on the Key and in the community were also trying to survive,” said Mayor Jack Duncan. “In my mind, the negative impact of the Colony is felt more today than it was five years ago because the economy has rebounded. We have new condos and hotels being built, and this eyesore continues to sit here and look worse and worse every single day. Now, it’s more aesthetics than economics.”

Katie Moulton, former Colony Beach & Tennis Resort general manager, says those aesthetics make her sick to her stomach.

“It’s like an old, shuttered ghost of a place that’s supposed to be alive full of happy memories for generations of people to come,” Moulton said. “In its current state it reminds me of a combination of greed, egos and unreasonable people unwilling to compromise gone terribly wrong.”

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Where are they now?

Find out what the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort’s famous fatherdaughter hotel management team is up to five years after the Colony shuttered its doors.

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The slow collapse

The Colony questions

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TOURISM LOSS

Longboat Key Chamber of Commerce President Gail Loefgren said she’s still shocked the Colony is closed every time she drives by it.

“It’s a terrible sight for visitors and residents to witness on what’s otherwise one of the most premier communities in the country,” Loefgren said.

Loefgren still gets visitors dropping in who ask about the Colony and why it has not reopened at the beginning of each season. And some are returning for the first time and had no idea the Colony has since closed.

“People connect with places they stayed on Longboat Key and don’t forget what brought them joy and made them want to come back to visit again,” Loefgren said.

“People still miss and ask about the Holiday Inn, so they ask about the Colony tenfold.”

Visit Sarasota County President Virginia Haley cites the Colony’s closing as “the beginning of some of the worst couple economic and tourism months this area has ever witnessed,” which was compounded by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill that led many visitors to cancel reservations, even though local beaches never saw any oil wash ashore.

To this day, Haley said she gets more people asking what happened to the Colony than any other hotel or tourism property that was lost to the recession.

“Many people came to be just not Longboat Key residents but Sarasota residents after visiting the Colony,” Haley said. “We lost that cache the day we lost the Colony.”

Although Haley is quick to point out the economy has rebounded, and new hotels are being built on the island and the mainland, she said she won’t be satisfied until a resort is back on the Colony site.

“There’s not a lot of other opportunities to get another beachfront resort in this area,” Haley said. “It’s my No. 1 on a tourism wish list for the Sarasota County area.”

PROPERTY VALUE IMPACT?

Loss of tourism isn’t the only impact the resort’s closure five years ago has had on the Key. Geographically, no one has been more impacted by the resort’s

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Why is the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort closed?

The Colony closed in August 2010, after U.S. Bankruptcy Judge K. Rodney May converted the Colony’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization with its unit owners to a Chapter 7 liquidation.

Ultimately, the rulings forced the Colony to close by dissolving the partnership that ran the Colony (led by Dr. Murray “Murf” Klauber) and converting the Colony from a hotel resort to a condominium association.

As a result, unit owners received possession of their units.

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closure from a visual and property value standpoint than next-door neighbors at the Aquarius Club.

Greg Van Howe told the Longboat Observer the resort next door was an asset and a major selling point because of its restaurants and shops when he bought his unit in 2003.

Fast forward to Aug. 15, 2015, and the dilapidated resort is an eyesore and a nuisance.

What once was a vibrant and bustling resort is now a broken down mess that includes the occasional rat scurrying around the boarded up wooden buildings, neighbors say.

“There’s a slum on Longboat Key, and I live next to it,” Van Howe said.

The Colony, some say, is now a deterrent for buyers interested in Aquarius or the 10-unit Tencon property, which sits just south of the Colony.

But the effect is difficult to measure because the Colony closed in 2010 during the slowest years for Longboat Key real estate and at a time when other businesses and hotels such as the Holiday Inn were already closed.

Another unknown is how many guests would have stayed at the Colony over the past five years and eventually purchased Longboat Key property.

Barbara Ackerman, a Realtor with Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate’s The Barbara Ackerman Group said she misses the Colony every day.

“There isn’t any question that not having the Colony as a destination for tourists, who are our future buyers, has been missed tremendously,” Ackerman said.

“The Colony was part of our heritage, and people began living here after staying at the Colony,” said Cheryl Loeffler, of Premier Sotheby’s International Realty.

Loeffler’s first introduction to the island was also via a visit to the resort.

“Now (Longboat) has to be more of a buying destination,” she said.

TOWN TAKES PASSIVE STANCE

In April 2013, the Longboat Key Town Commission held several Colony workshops to encourage the parties to reach an agreement.

And in December 2013, the commission came close to reviewing a building-by-building assessment of the property to consider condemning the property before canceling the hearings.

Today, Duncan said the commission has taken a much more passive approach because the town realizes there’s nothing that can be done other than ensure the property is boarded up and not violating any ordinances that violate the health, safety and welfare of the island’s residents.

“For years we pushed and tried to help find a positive outcome, and now it’s more of a ‘I give up, just let me know when it happens,’ approach,” Duncan said.

In the meantime, Duncan said it’s hard for him and other residents to drive past the resort without feeling embarrassed.

“Getting all the issues resolved and making that a world-class resort should be the focal point of all interested parties, and it’s a shame we’re still sitting here five years later talking about it and making the same plea,” he said.

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The Longboat Observer recaps why the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort closed and the legal disputes that have prevented redevelopment from proceeding five years later.

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BY THE NUMBERS The vacant Colony Beach & Tennis Resort has required extra police presence since it closed. The following incidents are documented in Longboat Key Police reports from the past five years.

22 Security checks 15 Trespasssing 13 Vandalism 9 Suspicious circumstance 8 Burglary 4 Fire Alarm 3 Property damage 3 Lost property 2 Civil disturbance 2 Larceny 2 Abandoned 911 call 2 Found property 1 Battery 1 Animal nuisance

Why did the parties end up in court?

Klauber’s partnership operated and managed the hotel, while owners of the 232 units had access to their units 30 days a year and allowed the hotel partnership to rent the units for the remaining 335 days a year.

In 2004, Klauber and unit owners became ensnared in a legal dispute over who was responsible for paying for approximately $14.1 million in repairs.

Klauber sued the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association in 2007 in Sarasota County.

How did the case wind up in bankruptcy court?

The dispute landed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court’s Middle District of Florida in 2008, after the association filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing the $14.1 million assessment as its biggest liability. Judge May ruled in favor of the association in 2009, finding that the association wasn’t responsible for the paying the assessment. Klauber’s hoteloperating entity filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October 2009 in a separate case.

The association then asked Judge May to convert the Colony partnership Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization to a Chapter 7 liquidation, which he did.

Wasn’t Judge May’s ruling overturned?

Yes. Klauber and his entities appealed Judge May’s 2009 rulings in which the judge found the association wasn’t liable for paying the assessment.

U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday ruled in Klauber’s favor in July 2011, concluding that the association had always SEE PAGE 6

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Q+A WITH KATIE MOULTON How much is the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort still a part of your life?

Dad and I talk about it every single day. I manage all of my father’s business affairs, which are still very much tied to the Colony because he still has a vested interest in the final outcome.

Whether it’s businessrelated, lamenting about past legal issues or just laughing and reminiscing, everything seems to relate back to the Colony in some way for us.

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Former Colony Beach & Tennis Resort General Manager Katie Moulton says helping parties achieve settlements as a professional mediator allows her to be with people again, and it just might help her heal from the one legal dispute she couldn’t settle.

Where are they now?

Five years after the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort’s closing, longtime general manager Katie Moulton and owner Murf Klauber still talk Colony every day.

KURT SCHULTHEIS SENIOR EDITOR

Katie Moulton

Katie Klauber Moulton worked “seven days a week with more weekly hours than I could count for 25 years” as general manager of the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort alongside her father, longtime resort owner Dr. Murray “Murf” Klauber.

She was 13 when she started working at the resort, armed with a pitcher of water and coffeepot.

Then, the Colony closed Aug. 15, 2010, amid lawsuits, and the job that consumed most of her waking hours was gone.

“After it closed, I sat at home one day, and it hit me,” Moulton said. “I didn’t know how hard I was working until I wasn’t.”

Moulton took time to relax. She caught up with lifelong friends.

She immersed herself in work for the luxury real estate business of her husband, Michael Moulton — a job she still handles today.

But her epiphany came at the top of the Ringling Bridge during one of her frequent walks.

“I was walking and having a moment of unpleasantness a few years ago about what was happening at the Colony and how we failed to come to a settlement when I had a big ‘Aha!’ moment,”

Moulton said. “I realized we failed in all of our settlement agreements, negotiations, mediations, etc. and in each, there was typically a trained professional third party leading those discussions.”

Those professionals often saw anger, distrust, high emotions and little chance of a resolution.

What they didn’t understand in most cases, Moulton realized, was what was at risk if resolution wasn’t reached.

“I knew I could do better than that and help people,” Moulton said. “So, I worked to become a certified mediator.”

For the two years, Moulton has volunteered for the Sarasota 12th Circuit Citizens Dispute Resolution Program as a mediator.

“I have 60 cases under my belt with a very high settlement resolution rate,” Moulton said.

Moulton says she’s often complimented for achieving a settlement among parties where the judge thought there was no chance for resolution.

“I don’t think there are many people who know better than I do that you don’t want your issues to ultimately get decided before a judge,” Moulton said. “You are better off coming up with and agreeing to something you can all live with.”

Now a Florida Supreme Court certified mediator, Moulton is also a partner and executive

director of Cayuga Hospitality Consultants, a group of global mediators/consultants for the hotel industry made up of fellow Cornell University School of Hotel Administration graduates.

In her spare time — which she now has more of — Moulton enjoys cooking, exercising and “living the downtown life.” She and her husband sold their Bird Key home in 2013 and live in a Sarasota condominium.

Moulton, though, said hardly a day goes by that she and her father don’t bring up the Colony.

“I miss my employees, the guests and helping people have a good time,” Moulton said. “I hope that property can do that again for people as soon as possible.”

“I don’t think there are many people who know better than I do that you don’t want your issues to ultimately get decided before a judge.”

Can the Colony’s existing units be renovated and restored, as some unit owners claim?

Anybody who thinks the property can be renovated is not living in the real world. The project the board proposed back in 2005 and 2006 was a necessary project to meet current codes and keep the buildings healthy. To think you can leave the buildings vacant and the cast iron sewer system unused for five years and then try and turn a switch or do it in an affordable way doesn’t make sense to me.

Would you and your father consider being part of a new resort on the former Colony property?

It would depend on who the new owners are. I would be a part of any project I believe I can add value to and that I believe in.

What did you learn most from your dad during all those years with him at the resort?

I learned how to run a business like a family.

We were all a family. My Dad and I would stop a serious conversation to ask a 6-year-old how his birthday party in the dining room was the night before. That shocked people. To be an independent property and to be recognized globally for a family business on a tiny little island is very unusual, and we created that together. I learned a lot from him, and he learned a lot from me.

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Murf Klauber Dr. Murray “Murf” Klauber still works on sketches for a future resort at the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort.

“The island needs high-tech office space in a high-rise, hightech meeting rooms and new floor plans for units that have more space,” Klauber said. “I can see it.”

Klauber, 88, still lives and breathes the Colony with his daughter and longtime Colony partner Katie Klauber Moulton.

“I miss the fun of running the place with Katie more than anything,” Klauber said. “When I created that, the most important thing was having fun every day.

We succeeded in that.”

Klauber still keeps in touch with famous visitors like Bud Collins and the Smothers Brothers.

He never imagined that a lawsuit he filed in 2007 to assess unit owners for upkeep and damages associated with the hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005 would lead to the resort’s closure.

During season, he and his wife, Susie, stay at The Players Club, not far from the resort he made famous in the 1970s as a tennis destination.

“It’s really a shame,” Klauber said. “When I walk by that place, it can ruin my day.”

Klauber and his wife spend half of the summer in Toronto and the other half of the summer in downtown Sarasota at Katie’s condominium.

Klauber hasn’t attended Colony bankruptcy hearings in Tampa for three years, and he keeps apprised of the legal disputes from Moulton.

“I’m still hopeful I can see dirt turning there for a new project in my lifetime,” Klauber said.

Klauber said he also believes either Ocean Properties or Unicorp “could do a good job with the property.”

Asked if he would like to be involved in a future project, Klauber doesn’t hesitate.

“No one knows the property like Katie and I do,” Klauber said.

“I would be available to help to whoever asks.”

Klauber is also working on a new Sarasota restaurant concept.

“I still function like I did 50 years ago,” Klauber said. “The ideas keep flowing.”

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What legal hurdles remain before a new resort can rise? The Longboat Observer breaks down three major legal issues that need resolution.

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THE $23 MILLION JUDGMENT Four bidders are seeking the $23 million judgment against Colony Beach & Tennis Resort unit owners that U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee William Maloney seeks to sell. Longtime Colony owner Dr. Murray “Murf” Klauber won the judgment on appeal in 2012.

WHY IT MATTERS: Developers need the judgment to assess unit owners for money owed and use the funds to redevelop the resort. The association needs the judgment to bury it and prevent other developers from using it to assess them.

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THE LATEST: The following four bids will be reviewed 10 a.m.

Sept. 8 in May’s courtroom: n Newcomer Bluewater Oceanfront Investments LLC, a new Windermere-based corporation formed July 17 by registered agent Robert Butler, submitted the highest bid at $4 million along with a $400,000 deposit. n The Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association submitted a $3 million cash bid with a

$300,000 deposit. n Unicorp submitted a $3.5 million bid with a $350,000 deposit. n Naeco LLC, a New Hamshirebased corporation controlled by Delray Beach-based Ocean Properties, submitted a $3.7 million bid with a $370,000 deposit.

All offers except the association’s would still allow the winning bidder to assess unit owners for the $23 million judgment they are seeking as part of a redevelopment plan for the resort.

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Parties will explain to Judge K. Rodney May why their offers should be approved and can raise cash bids at the auction.

THE RECREATIONAL LEASE JUDGMENT Future development of the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort requires settlement of a longdisputed recreational lease, along with a $2.5 million recreational

WHY IT MATTERS: To develop the entire 18-acre Colony site, a developer needs approximately three acres of tennis courts, walking trails and other amenities that sit mostly in the middle of the property. When the resort was operational, Klauber collected $650,000 a year from unit owners for their right to use the amenities. The 99-year lease has approximately 60 years remaining, but payments haven’t been made in nearly a decade. The judgment for rec lease payments and the rights to use the property are crucial to future development. Unicorp already has an agreement in place with Colony Lender LLC, which has agreed to give Unicorp rights to the 95% interest it owns on the property it acquired from Klauber’s collateral on overdue bank loans and Carolyn Field.

THE LATEST: Menchise was bringing forward a $600,000 settlement he reached with the

Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association to Judge May at 10 a.m. Aug. 28.

But the settlement offer won’t be presented to May as planned because Menchise filed a motion last week to withdraw the offer.

Menchise noted in his Aug. 6 motion to rescind that the agreement expired and contained a mutual mistake of fact.

WHY IS HE RESCINDING IT? Unicorp President Chuck Whittall announced Aug. 7 he’s reached an approximately $1.4 million cash settlement agreement with Menchise that acquires the rec lease judgment and provides more cash for Menchise to settle claims. The settlement also releases the liability of all claims involved with the rec lease estate.

Judge May will review the settlement Unicorp has reached with Menchise 10 a.m. Aug. 28.

Colony Beach & Tennis Resort Association President Jay Yablon, though, said the association will attempt to enforce its agreement.

“We already signed an agreement that’s scheduled for approval,” Yablon said. “Behind the scenes, Whittall interfered with that and he’s trying to reach a separate agreement.”

PAYING ALL CREDITORS The key to resolving the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort bankruptcy case, at its core, involves paying myriad creditors owed money when the resort closed its doors in 2010. Only after creditors are paid can the bankruptcy case be closed to pave the way for a future resort.

WHY IT MATTERS: Becoming the largest affected creditor in the Colony bankruptcy case settles yet another legal issue because another party that expected a large payment has been paid and resolved. Settling all disputes and claims is what will end the bankruptcy case.

So who’s the largest affected creditor owed money in the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort bankruptcy case? It was Sarasota law firm Icard Merrill, which is owed $1,047,000 for legal fees involved with the case over the years.

Whittall filed a motion last week confirming that he paid Icard Merrill its amount owed, which now makes Unicorp the largest affected creditor in the case. The association intends to fight the settlement, though, because it says it reached its own three-way settlement with Icard Merrill and Menchise for the rec lease.

An agreement the association had in place to purchase the Icard Merrill claim, though, expired July 30. Icard Merrill filed an objection to the former association settlement of its claim because the amount listed it was owed was incorrect.

There are a variety of other claims from parties still seeking to be paid as part of the bankruptcy case.

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WHAT DOES IT MEAN? It depends on whom you talk to.

All eyes are on Whittall to see if his settlement offer with Trustee Menchise for the rec lease is considered and approved.

If it’s approved and Whittall is able to put up enough cash at the all-day auction in September for the $23 million judgment controlled by Trustee William Maloney and convince Judge May that his offer comes along with resolving outstanding claims, Unicorp will have the pieces in place to resolve the bankruptcy case. Colony Lender has also agreed to settle litigation, damages and claims it believes it has if Unicorp controls the rec lease judgment.

“We’re excited,” Whittall said.

“If Judge May approves our settlement with Menchise and awards the $23 million judgment to us, we will have all the pieces in place to turn dirt at the Colony, get the economic engine there going and eventually get people back on that beach.”

Yablon, though, said if Whittall acquires the two judgments instead of the association, the legal dispute will drag on.

“If he (Whittall) gets those two judgments, then unfortunately we go full force on litigation,” Yablon said. “We will fight him right through appeals and try to turn the judgments into zero.

More time will be wasted, and lots of money will be spent on attorneys who will profit from it.”

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been required to maintain the property’s common elements.

He remanded the case back to bankruptcy court and directed Judge May to determine whether the association should return possession of units to the hotel partnership bankruptcy trustee and pay more than $7.7 million in damages or pay damages that are now estimated at $23 million to the partnership with no return of units.

Judge May chose the latter in October 2013. He also recommended a $2.2 million judgment for owners of a recreational lease.

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Colony Beach & Tennis Resort units are boarded up and gated.

What is the town’s role in this mess?

Commissioners have discussed

the possibility of taking away the 134 nonconforming units in the past, as well condemning the property if the parties don’t reach an agreement. But Mayor Jack Duncan said those discussions aren’t held by commissioners any longer. A tourism extension deadline to preserve the units expires in December 2016.

“We’ve learned at this point that all we can do is wait for the legal mess to resolve itself,” Duncan said.

What is the recreational facilities lease?

Until October 2008, unit owners paid $650,000 annually for use of the tennis courts and other recreational facilities at the property to Klauber and other leaseholders. Unicorp

Development President Chuck Whittall and Colony Lender LLC principal David Siegal have argued that the 99-year lease came with the property Colony Lender foreclosed upon and that unit owners owe $5.1 million for unpaid taxes and rent and could face future liabilities of $42.3 million. The association disputes that claim.

What is the role of Colony Lender and Unicorp National Development?

Colony Lender previously purchased overdue bank loans on the Klauber-controlled properties, including an 80% interest in a 2.3-acre recreational property, from Bank of America for a rumored $4.5 million, followed by a 15% interest in a 2.3-acre recreational property.

It won a judgment of more than $14.3 million in a foreclosure trial, then placed the winning bid of $15,200,001 in a July 2014 auction to become 95% owner of the recreational property and 100% owner of the other properties. It has argued that a disputed 99-year recreational facilities lease comes with the purchase of the 2.3-acre property.

Orlando-based Unicorp National Development Inc. has an agreement to purchase all Colony Lender resort assets.

Why were Colony Lender and Unicorp National Development sanctioned?

Colony Lender and Unicorp sought more than $5 million in damages for unpaid rent plus interest on a disputed recreational facilities lease last year through demand letters and lawsuits against each unit owner.

Judge May ruled last month that those actions violated an automatic bankruptcy stay in April.

What does longtime unit owner Andy Adams currently own at the Colony?

Approximately 70 units and a 5% interest in the recreational property.

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Another appeaser In spite of the American people’s overwhelming opposition to the Iran nuclear deal, Florida Sen. Bill Nelson claims there is ‘no other available alternative.’ He’s voting for it.

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Donald Trump, the debate, the rain and the plans for a new Shore restaurant in the Village aside, let’s recap last week’s news about another hot summer topic: Monday, Aug. 3:

AMERICAN VOTERS OPPOSE IRAN DEAL 2-1, QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY NATIONAL POLL FINDS American voters oppose 57%28%, with only lukewarm support from Democrats and overwhelming opposition for Republicans and independent voters, the nuclear pact negotiated with Iran, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today.

Voters say 58%-30% the nuclear pact will make the world less safe, the independent Quinnipiac University Poll finds.

Opposing the Iran deal are Republicans 86%-3% and independent voters 55%-29%, while Democrats support it 52%-32%. There is little gender gap; men oppose the deal 59%-30%, and women oppose it 56%-27%.

Tuesday, Aug. 4 …

Reporting on Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., speaking on the Senate floor, The Hill newspaper in Washington posted:

BILL NELSON BACKS IRAN DEAL WASHINGTON — Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., on Tuesday [in a 22-minute speech on the Senate floor] threw his support behind President Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran, joining a string of Senate Democrats backing the deal ahead of a five-week recess.

“I acknowledge that this had been one of the most important preparations and will be one of the most important votes that I will cast in the Senate,” he said. “Unless there is an unexpected change in the conditions and facts before the vote is called in September — and it will be called on the very first day that we return in September — unless there is an unexpected change, I will support the nuclear agreement.”

Nelson added there is “no other available alternative” that keeps

HOW TO REACH BILL NELSON Washington office: United States Senate 716 Senate Hart Office Building Washington, DC 20510 202-224-5274 Tampa office: 801 N. Florida Ave. 4th Floor Tampa, FL 33602 Phone: 813-225-7040 Email: https://www.billnelson.senate. gov/contact-bill

Iran from getting a nuclear weapon for at least the next 10 to 15 years …

Nelson … called the deal the best option available to Congress … … Nelson warned that if Congress rejected the agreement, it could help quicken Iran’s ability to get a nuclear weapon, adding that “without this deal, Iran’s breakout time could quickly, quickly shrink from months to a handful of weeks or days.” … He added that if his colleagues reject the deal, the sanctions against Iran likely won’t be reinstated.

Nelson said it is “unrealistic to think we can force the foreign banks” of China, India, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan “to hold on to their cash if “we threaten them with U.S. banking sanctions.

“How will those threats be taken seriously when they hold nearly half of the United States’ debt?”

Nelson said the U.S. cannot get a better deal with less economic support and less international support.

“That is a fact that we are having to face,” he said. “Under a deal, we keep most of the world with us.”

(You can watch Nelson’s speech on YouTube: https://www.youtube. com /watch?v=JXxyN3ssLaE) Throughout his 43 years as a state and federal career politician, Sen. Bill Nelson has always been a good, loyal Democrat.

The Club for Growth, one of

those Washington think tanks that fights for less government and more freedom on economic issues, gives Nelson a lifetime score of 11% on his voting record. That ties him with the liberal-of-liberals’ standard bearer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste, a taxpayer watchdog, consistently has ranked Nelson “hostile” to taxpayers over a 12-year period.

So it really comes as no surprise that Nelson would fall in line behind Barack Obama on the Iran nuclear deal.

But why? Why do so in the face of such overwhelming opposition from the American electorate? Nelson, after all, often has portrayed himself as a populist — a defender and voice of the people.

Nelson himself acknowledged in his speech this vote will be one of the most difficult in his career. On the Senate floor, he said his support for the deal came after talking to colleagues, constituents, armscontrol experts, foreign experts on the Middle East and Asia and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, a nuclear physicist.

As you listen to him, Nelson recites the Obama administration’s talking points. He virtually admits and accepts that the U.S. has no world influence to maintain sanctions if the U.S. rejects the agreement. Instead, he buys the argument that with the agreement in place, if Iran violates it, the world will unite to reimpose sanctions.

He said he doesn’t like it, but he accepts that with the agreement Iran will still be a state sponsor of terrorism.

By the time you finish listening to Nelson’s rationale, he reinforces what most Americans know: Obama and his aides violated the fundamentals of negotiating a good deal. In business, a good deal is when everyone walks away feeling good. Everyone may have given in here and there, but everyone walks away feeling as though the deal is fair for both sides.

A majority of Americans certainly don’t feel that way at all. They feel we gave far more than we got. Sadly, Sen. Bill Nelson, rather than be a fighter (as he often claims), Nelson has joined the ranks of the wimpy appeasers.

If the Senate rejects the deal, Nelson says, the sanctions against Iran likely won’t be reinstated. ‘Under a deal, we keep most of the world with us.” SEN. BILL NELSON

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LEGALLY GONE 1:54 a.m. — 500 block of De Narvaez Drive Vehicle Repossession: A woman called police to report her white Nissan was stolen. After investigating, police informed her that the car wasn’t stolen. It was repossessed and taken off the island legally by a tow truck.

FAILED GETAWAY 3:49 a.m. — 2400 block of GMD Traffic Violation: A woman was cited for failing to drive within a single lane at 2:30 a.m. She blamed the weaving on texting.

Police discovered her driver’s license was suspended and confiscated it. She parked her car and waited for a ride. But at 3:49 a.m., police saw her driving her car again and arrested her after she sped into a condominium parking lot to avoid being pulled over. Police found a trace amount of marijuana in her car before it was towed away.

JULY 30

COSTLY VISIT 4:10 p.m. — 3300 block of GMD Public Service: A man told police he thinks his truck was towed from a Key condominium parking lot while he was visiting a friend. A condo management employee confirmed the truck was towed to Bradenton. Police told him it was a civil matter.

POWER PROBLEM 7:37 p.m. — 1000 block of Bogey Lane Fire: Firefighter/paramedics informed police that a power line running through the top of a tree was arching and caused the top of the tree to burn.

Crews stayed on scene until the power company arrived to repair the line.

JULY 31

BAGGED IT 6:29 p.m. — 2900 block of GMD Found Property: A man turned over an orange backpack containing a GoPro camera he found while walking along Gulf of Mexico Drive. The owner of

the backpack called an hour later looking for the bag, and police turned it over to him after he described the bag and its contents.

BUMPER CAR 10:14 p.m. — 200 block of Sands Point Road Disturbance: A man reported that someone deliberately hit him with his vehicle when he blocked off a parking space with a traffic cone. When he placed the cone in front of the space, a man driving a white Lexus wagged his finger at him and then hit him with his car as he drove into the parking space, knocking the man to the ground. A restaurant witness also observed the incident and told police the driver was laughing about it as he got out of the car with a passenger and entered the restaurant. The suspect was gone when police arrived, and the employee declined to press charges.

AUG. 1

JOINT 9:11 a.m. — 200 block of Sands Point Road Narcotics Violation: A hotel employee told police a guest was walking on the beach and found “a brick of marijuana weighing several pounds” on the beach near some blue cabanas. The package was waterlogged and appeared to have been in the water for some time. It was placed into evidence at the police station.

SURFER RESURFACING 11:42 a.m. — 100 block of North Shore Road Boat: A woman reported she saw a kite surfer go under water who didn’t come back up. Marine patrol conducted a search of the area and didn’t find anyone.

AUG. 2

HAND IT OVER 10:21 p.m. — Intersection of Bay Isles Parkway and GMD Traffic: A license plate recognition camera alerted police that a man with a suspended

driver’s license drove onto the island. The man handed over his license and told police he wasn’t aware it was suspended for failing to pay traffic fines. He was issued a ticket for driving with a suspended license and failing to dim his high beams.

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TAG TROUBLE 11:20 p.m. — 200 block of Sands Point Road Recovered Property: A license plate recognition camera alerted police that a black car drove onto the island with a tag reported as stolen. The tag was on a rental car, and police advised the person renting the car to contact the company to get another car with a valid tag.

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From June 29 through Aug. 7, students in third through fifth grades attended the weeklong camp that taught students how to design and build their own aquatic robots with Legos.

VIDEO EVIDENCE 5:32 p.m. — 200 block of Sands Point Road Altercation: A man told police he got upset at his brother’s friend for yelling vulgar words toward everyone in a hotel room, including his elderly grandmother. Police, though, observed a cellphone video taken by a witness in the room that revealed he was the one being confrontational and using vulgar words. No one wanted to press charges, and police told the parties to stay in separate hotel rooms.

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WET BANDIT 9:37 a.m. — 5400 block of GMD Assist Other Agency: A Public Works employee reported a water theft. He told police a water meter he shut off was turned back on in the last month and 5,000 gallons of water was used. The water valve was turned back off and a lock was placed on it to prevent the theft of more water.

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YOU O B S E RV E D Christ Church dresses up summer Members of Christ Church of Longboat Key, Presbyterian enjoyed an evening of salad July 24, at the Beach Harbor Club.

More than 60 church members attended the Summer Salad Social, during which attendees brought their favorite salads to share.

Former Longboat Key tennis pro Del Shoenberger, 57, died July 29.

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Del Shoenberger, 57, died July 29.

sense of humor and, along with Aviles, frequently played practical jokes on other tennis pros.

Off the court, Shoenberger wrote tennis how-to columns for the Longboat Observer in 2005.

He maintained friendships with many of his clients and became well-known among Key tennis players.

“Really, a lot of people on the island knew him because he had been here for so long,” Thayer said. “He was just a nice guy and a good person. He truly cared about his clients and was very wellliked all the way around.”

But despite his aptitude as a tennis player and coach, Shoenberger’s clients and co-workers will remember him more for his personality than his tennis skills.

“He was just that type of person,” Key Club pro shop employee Polly Githler said. “He was a super nice person and was warm and friendly. He was a good, solid person and really down to earth.

Many, many people will miss him.”

Shoenberger is survived by his sister, Linda Iribarren, and many good friends.

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A Sarasota native, Shoenberger began playing tennis at a young age and played on his high school team in Venice. He joined the Colony Beach and Tennis Resort in 1980, where he served as a tennis pro.

It was at the Colony that Shoenberger earned the nickname “Teddy Bear.”

“He was very sweet and very caring,” Longboat Key Club tennis pro Sammy Aviles, who also worked at the Colony, said. “He was always smiling, and he was a person who would never say no to you. The thing I remember is, every time we had a get-together, he was the first one volunteering to get things to help you.”

Shoenberger worked at the Colony for eight years. In 2002, he returned to the Key and worked as a tennis pro at the Longboat Key Public Tennis Center until 2009.

He also freelanced his skills and worked at the Key Club on an asneeded basis in recent years.

During his many years as a tennis pro, Shoenberger became the kind of coach people adored.

“He was just a really, really good pro,” Tennis Center Manager Kay Thayer said. “When you took a lesson from him, it was like he could read people. He knew what kind of lesson they wanted.

He kept up with a lot of people and was friends with a lot of his clients.”

In addition to his kind demeanor, Shoenberger was known for his

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Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art opens new exhibition The Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art gallery held its opening reception for the second part of its series examing abstract artists in the Sarasota area and throughout Florida. Work included expansive triptychs and statue work.

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Principal dancers Ricardo Rhodes, Victoria Hulland and Ricardo Graziano rehearse at Jacob’s Pillow for Sarasota Ballet’s weeklong residency.

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Pillow Talk On the verge of its 25th anniversary, the Sarasota Ballet begins this season with a weeklong residency at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the oldest American dance festival.

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R

icardo Graziano is an audiophile.

When the resident choreographer and principal dancer for the Sarasota Ballet is choreographing a new ballet, he will spend up to four hours a day listening to various pieces of music. He’s dogged in his search for the perfect blueprint for his next piece — something that will inspire him and his fellow dancers.

Usually Graziano, 28, who is in his sixth season with the ballet, has months to prepare an original piece. But he’s only had one month to polish his newest work, “In a State of Weightlessness,” which will premiere at the longestrunning dance festival in the country: Jacob’s Pillow. PAGE 12

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Pillow Talk Founded in 1931 in Becket, Mass., by Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis, the festival has grown into a dancing mecca where some of the most acclaimed and upand-coming companies and artists perform.

In December, Sarasota Ballet Director Iain Webb received a call from Ella Baff, the festival’s executive and artistic director, informing Webb that the Sarasota Ballet would be making its company premiere at the festival with seven performances from Aug. 12 through 16.

“I think it’s an incredible honor that Jacob’s Pillow invited the company up to perform,” says Webb. “I think that, from the dancers’ point of view, this is something they will remember for years after they’ve hung their pointe shoes up. It’s one of the oldest and most important dance events in America.”

Performing in front of a new audience is always a challenge, but performing in front of people who are extremely knowledgeable of the dance world comes with extra pressure. These high

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The campus of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival was originally fields of farmland. The area was settled by puritanical New England farmers who likened the zig-zag road in the area to that of Jacob’s ladder from the book of Genesis.

The farm itself was named Jacob’s Pillow after an oddly shaped boulder behind the barn, in which festival founders Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis rehearsed. The name was a Biblical reference to the rock Jacob used as a pillow on which he had a spiritual vision.

expectations are especially felt

by Graziano, whose new piece will round out the company’s triple bill along with Sir Frederick Ashton’s “Monotones I and II” and Christopher Wheeldon’s “The American.”

“It’s going to be a new crowd for us, so it’s going to be very exciting for us dancers,” says Graziano.

“As a choreographer, it’s a great honor to have a ballet that’s being performed up there. It’s the first time I’m getting something of mine shown outside of Sarasota.”

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THE CREATION PROCESS

At the end of the ballet’s season in May, Graziano and a few friends were ruminating on the oftenmysterious names of ballets. He became fixated on the idea and sound of a title he devised: “In a State of Weightlessness.” Just as he was giving it serious thought, Webb and the company leadership gave him the opportunity to present a new work at Jacob’s Pillow.

The only problem? Rehearsals started July 6, meaning Graziano had just a few weeks to conceptu-

Sarasota Ballet members rehearse Tuesday, at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in Becket, Mass. The dancers rehearsed in the space that was originally a barn on the farm’s property.

alize his piece. Set to the second movement of the Tirol Concerto for Piano and Orchestra by composer Philip Glass, Graziano’s piece is modern in form and style.

“Ricardo’s stuff is contemporary, and we do some contemporary dance in the company but more classical,” says Victoria Hulland, principal dancer who is entering her ninth season with

the Sarasota Ballet. “It’s always a different rehearsal process when it’s being created on you. You can play around a little more. A lot of the rehearsals are just trial and error, and it’s fun.”

For most of the 20th century, choreographers either drew sketches, jotted down notes on the musical score or wrote down steps using one of ballet’s hiero-

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glyphic notation systems. But in the modern world, Graziano uses his iPhone and iPad to record every move.

“Most of the time I try to create the work ahead of time in my mind before I present it to the company,” says Graziano, who is still working out small details the week leading up to the festival. “Then I come to the studio by myself and try to play around.

I ask a few dancers to come and help me, even if it’s not their part.”

During a recent rehearsal session, Graziano, Hulland and Daniel Rodriguez, coryphée dancer, go over a series of moments in the new piece. As Hulland and Rodriguez take their positions in the studio rehearsal space at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts, Graziano studies them. The young choreographer approaches his dancers and asks them to

repeat a movement he just witnessed. He tells them to freeze in a photograph of a moment.

“Can you raise your arm a little higher?” he asks Hulland and Rodriguez.

The two nod and record the change in their mind and body — fast-acting muscle memory. The two then take off to practice a new part of the piece. Rodriguez lifts Hulland in the air.

“Could you do that again but slower this time?” Graziano asks.

The pair resets. Hulland and Rodriguez offer suggestions so that they can be more comfortable while still maintaining the aesthetic vision in Graziano’s mind. It’s a series of trial and error until both choreographer and dancers are satisfied.

Graziano records the adjusted parts of the piece on his iPhone.

“Let’s keep that,” he says.

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Webb’s dedication and focus on raising the Sarasota Ballet’s profile in the dance world has paid off. With performances in June 2013 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., a Sir Frederick Ashton Festival in May 2014 and closing performances at the New York City Center’s 11th annual Fall for Dance Festival last October, Webb is slowly checking off to-dos from his dance bucket list.

“I have my secret wish list of my hopes,” says Webb. “We just have to not be too big for our boots and appreciate what we can do. I think we’ve got a unique product in the dance world.”

A successful run at Jacob’s Pillow will elevate the ballet company to new heights alongside some of the country’s premiere organizations. Earlier in the month two of the most prestigious and oldest companies in America, the American Ballet Theatre and the New York City Ballet, performed at the festival. The invitation to perform couldn’t have come at a more perfect time for the Sarasota Ballet, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this season.

Two more things to mark off the list.

“It’s quite funny,” says Webb, “Because they just had Daniil Simkin up there from the American Ballet Theatre and then they had Daniel Ulbricht from the New York City Ballet. And if you remember it was only a year ago that those two came down here and performed with us before the Ashton Festival. It just shows what a small world that the dance world is. It’s like we’re all following each other around.”

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“This is something they will remember for years after they’ve hung their pointe shoes up.

It’s one of the oldest and most important dance events in America.”

Since its start in summer 1933 when Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis began holding dancing talks and symposiums, the festival has become a mecca for American dance practitioners and innovaters.

Influential dancers and choreographers such as Martha Graham, Jack Cole, Alvin Ailey, Mark Morris, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Margot Fonteyn and Mikhail Baryshnikov have all called the Pillow home.

Jacob's Pillow was declared a National Historic Landmark District by the federal government in 2003, and in 2010 it was given the National Medal of the Arts by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the highest artistic honor an individual or organization can receive.

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Thirty-five students were selected from a pool of 87 applicants. The scholarships ranged from $1,500 to $5,000.

The club introduced two new scholarships this year: the $5,000 Edith Barr Dunn Scholarship, the highest scholarship offered, and the $2,000 Frost Foundation Technical Scholarship.

“These students are all the best and the brightest,” Scholarship Committee Chairwoman Susan Phillips said. “Not only do they have academic success, but they have great civic engagement and awareness of what it is to give back to the community.”

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5054 GULF OF MEXICO DRIVE

Plan and proportion are the hallmarks of any well-designed house, but it’s the details that make the difference.

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lenge can produce extraordinary results. This threebedroom bayfront home on Longboat Key sits on an extremely narrow lot. But inspired planning has produced a jewel box of elegant design.

The main living area occupies the middle level with a cofferedceiling great room that is enclosed in glass and which offers views of tropical vegetation and the bay. Upstairs is the master suite, with treetop views and a balcony. There’s even a view from the marble bathtub. The home is set on a third of an acre and has deeded beach access.

home into something special.

Some are there from the beginning; others are added during renovations and remodeling.

Here are three area homes currently on the market that illustrate the enormous difference attention to detail can make.

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30TH FLR CITY & WATER VIEWS! 2Br/2.5Ba Office Nook/2CG w/Italian tile flrs, built-ins, granite, European cabinets, gourmet kitch. w/ high-end SS appls., automatic window trtmts, AV syst., open-air terrace, premium storage and pkg w/extra rm in Signature St Pete w/amenities! MLS#A4120843 ..............$745,000

Priced at $1.65 million. For more

information, call Lynne Koy, of Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate, at 544-5117.

TOWLES COURT! Veratile comb. RES/COMM property w/2BR/2.5Ba/1CG+, built 2001, open flr plans, tile, hardwood flrs, SS appls., French doors, built-in office, volume ceil., storage, track & rec lights w/the visibility to flourish in a top ten rated artist colony at Downtown’s edge!

MLS#A4126011 ........................................$509,000

DOWNTOWN BAYFRONT VIEWS! 1Br/1Ba great rm plan w/tile, white cabinets, neutral finishes, kitch.w/bkfst bar, mirrored walls & plantation shutters in bldg w/amenities; on flr laundry, fitness ctr, & lg heated pool, across from Marina Jacks & close to cultural activities!

MLS#A4113568......................................$225,000

UPDATED W/DIRECT BEACH VIEWS! 2Br/ 2Ba/1CG open plan, wood look tiles, eat-in kitch w/granite, modern cabinetry, Gaggeneau & Sub Zero, pvt laundry, wraparound balcony, in secure bldg. w/amenities; htd pool/spa, fitness & more on Lido!

MLS#A4115541 ......................................$700,000

DOWNTOWN SAN MARCO! 3-4Br/2.5Ba/1CG+1 w/extended terrace, city views & peek of the bay, granite, wood cabinets, diagonal tile & wood flrs, crown moldings, pvt laundry & newer a/c in a secure bldg. w/amenities; fitness ctr, pool & sauna in heart of cultural district!

MLS#A4118575 ......................................$550,000

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OUT OF THE PAST 1041 INDIAN BEACH DRIVE DOWNTOWN SAN MARCO! 3Br/2.5Ba/2CG w/balcony & flex room, city views & peek of the bay, granite, wood cabinets, diagonal tile, crown moldings, walk-ins & pvt laundry in wellmanaged bldg. w/amenities; pool, fitness ctr & more in the heart of Downtown Sarasota!

MLS#A4122341 ......................................$500,000

MODERN W/FULL BAY VIEWS! FUR ground flr 2-3Br/2Ba/1CP end res., open plan w/full remodel, Lr, Dr, den/study, sunroom, lg MBr w/ sitting rm, bamboo flrs, marble, tile, SS appls., laundry, hurricane shutters, balcony w/pvt bay access in gated comm. w/amenities near IMG! MLS#A4113439......................................$455,000

BEACHFRONT VIEWS ON SIESTA! Upgraded end residence 2Br/2Ba open plan, diagonal tile, granite, furn quality cabinets, SS appls., den or 2Br w/Murphy bed & built-ins, master w/walk-in, pvt balcony, cov pkg, in Whispering Sands 55+ designated w/amenities!

MLS#A4113198 ......................................$650,000

Original details in an older home are crucial to its charm and character. This 1940s home near Ringling College is loaded with features that have been carefully maintained and preserved. In the living room you’ll find an overscaled flagstone fireplace, plus a beamed ceiling and terrazzo floors with tile borders. Many of the rooms are paneled in wood, and the kitchen retains its original period cabinets and shelving, plus a black-and-white tile floor.

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DOWNTOWN BAY PLAZA! 2Br/2Ba/1CG + den/ flex room, nearly 2,000SF w/2 pvt balconies & upgrades; marble flrs, mirrored walls, builtins, detailed ceil., crown moldings, walk-in, pvt laundry & hurricane shutters in full service bldg. w/amenities close to heart of cultural scene!

MLS#A4122128.............................$615,000

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This gated Oyster Bay estate was originally designed by famed architect Tim Seibert back in 1957 but has been substantially updated and enlarged over the years. What makes it special is the dramatic living/dining area enclosed in glass and overlooking the pool and .83-acre waterfront lot, complete with a dock.

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fireplace, vaulted ceilings and oak floors. It’s a large, expansive family home, with a total of six bedrooms and 5,615 square feet.

You’ll even find a pecky cypress guest cottage, said to be brought over from Siesta Key years ago.

Beautiful North Tower residence - Cambridge floor plan with sweeping Gulf and City views. $1,795,000

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MILLION DOLLAR VIEWS and waterfront living without the price. 1BR/1BA with full views of Sarasota Bay and Durante Park and room for a dock/ boat lift. Private deeded beach access. Low maintenance fee. Pets welcome. $275,000

BIRD KEY - Located on one of Bird Key’s finest streets, this beautiful 3BR/4BA residence overlooks gorgeous canal views of Dolphin Waterway. Renovate or build new, the possibilities $ are endless!

1,650,000

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BAY - Rarely available 2BR/2.5BA with den overlooking the lagoon with $ partial Bay views. 2-Car Garage.

849,000

“ACQUA VITA - Water of Life,” a masterful collaboration of the award-winning firms Perrone Construction, Clifford M. Scholz Architects & Rowntree Enterprises. $8,400,000

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www.WagnerRealty.com FABULOUS MOVE-IN CONDITION turnkey furnished 2BR/2.5BA, pet friendly townhome. Partial bay views and lush serene greenery provides a quiet escape to paradise. $285,000

DESIGNER FURNISHED PENTHOUSE with 2BR/2BA and views of the Intracoastal AND the Bay! Deeded beach access, beach cabana, two heated pools and more. Pets welcome. $379,900

BEAUTIFUL BAY VIEWS 2BR/2BA condo is turnkey furnished. Roomy MBR, walk-in shower & cedar lined closet.

Heated pool, tennis, boat ramp, boat dock & clubhouse. Includes carport & deeded beach access. $289,000

FANTASTIC GULFSIDE COMPLEX offering many activities for all! This lovely 2BR/2BA, first floor unit has a view of the tennis courts. Plenty of space for families & entertaining. $549,000

3BR/3.5BA pool residence with large master bedroom, gorgeous outdoor space, cathedral ceilings, and 2-car garage. $799,000

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he following residential real estate transactions took place between July 27 and July 31. A home in John Ringling Estates tops all transactions in this week’s real estate. Charles and Geraldine Topp sold their home at 431 S. Washington Drive to Timothy and Tina Watkins, of Sarasota, for $2.1 million. Built in 2001, it has three bedrooms, three and a half baths, a pool and 3,062 square feet of living area.

Conrad Beach Triple J Eldred Realty LLC sold the home at 433 Firehouse Court to Craig and Julie Stacy, of Longboat Key, for $892,500.

Built in 2014, it has three bedrooms, three baths and 2,600 square feet of living area.

Irwin and Sandra Silverberg, trustees, sold the Unit 534 condominium at 3080 Grand Bay Blvd. to Richard Keck and Elise Fortin, of Seattle, for $642,000. Built in 1996, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,329 square feet of living area.

Grand Bay Amy Kaslow, trustee, of Potomac, Md., sold the Unit 235 condominium at 3040 Grand Bay Blvd. to Michael Gotthainer and Khaled Ibrahim, of Grans Saconnex, Switzerland, for $825,000. Built in 1996, it has three bedrooms, three and a half baths and 2,143 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $440,000 in 1996.

Windward Bay Brian and Deborah Foster, of Westhampton Beach, N.Y., sold their Unit PH-1 condominium at 4540 Gulf of Mexico Drive to William and Kathleen Colantano, of Lebanon, N.J., for $429,000. Built in 1975, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 1,337 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $390,000 in 2014.

Gulf Front James Bilotta and Debbie Schaefer, trustees, of Encinitas, Calif., sold the Unit 201 condominium at 5201 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Joshua Korth and Sarah Webb-Korth, of Mason, Ohio, for $370,000.

Built in 1980, it has two bedrooms, one bath and 1,296 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $261,000 in 1999.

Fairway Bay Thomas Livingston, of Presto, Pa., sold his Unit 1404 condominium at 1928 Harbourside Drive to Juli Russell, trustee, of Green Cove Springs, for $350,000. Built in 1982, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,375 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $162,000 in 1985.

McCall’s Beach Castle B&H Investments LLC sold the Unit 16 condominium at 5310 Gulf of Mexico Drive to Kim Christiansen, of Fort Lauderdale, for $317,500. Built in 1973, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,014 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $250,000 in 2008.

Longboat Pass David and Audrey Valentine, of Longboat Key, sold their Unit 2 condominium at 380

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The home at 431 S. Washington Drive has three bedrooms, three and a half baths, a pool and 3,062 square feet of living area.

N. Shore Road to Timothy and Jennifer Clark, of Winter Park, for $265,000. Built in 1969, it has one bedroom, one bath and 727 square feet of living area.

It previously sold for $180,000 in 2003.

Longboat Harbour William R. Colton, William M. Colton, John Hausmann and Frederick Hausmann Jr., trustees, sold the Unit 204 condominium at 4320 Falmouth Drive to Kenneth Harrigan and William Collins, of Goshen, N.Y., for $230,000. Built in 1969, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 667 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $90,000 in 1988.

LIDO KEY

Lisa Schinnow sold her home at 1241 Center Place to Roger and Pamela Foulks, of Sarasota, for $789,000. Built in 1953, it

455 Longboat Club Rd # 508 A3996566 $1,395,000 Michael Moulton

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3563 Fair Oaks Lane A4109427 $1,200,000 Brigitte Von Kessel

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535 Sanctuary Drive A102 A4126070 $1,135,000 Maureen Horn

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560 Wedge Lane A4111450 $859,000 Jonathan Fox

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6051 Gulf Of Mexico Dr A3983113 $3,950,000 Ann Martin & Joanna Benante

541 Chipping Lane A4121363 $825,000 Jonathan Fox

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711 Binnacle Point Drive A4107147 $815,000 Ian Addy Pa

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695 Marbury Lane A4109609 $798,000 Jenine Meyer

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1145 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 402 A4119959 $789,000 Jenifer Schwell

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5201 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 204 A4114306 $749,000 Beth Pheney

has two bedrooms, two baths, a pool and 2,226 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $485,000 in 2000.

Lido Beach Club Terigi Ciccone and Wei West, of Sarasota, sold their Unit 308 condominium at 1212 Benjamin Franklin Drive to Charles and Geraldine Topp, of Sarasota, for $560,000. Built in 1974, it has two bedrooms, two baths and 1,421 square feet of living area. It previously sold for $599,000 in 2004.

BIRD KEY

Robert and Betty Norwine, trustees, of Sarasota, sold their home at 405 Pheasant Way to Jonathan Mitchell, trustee, of West Hollywood, Calif., for $640,000. Built in 1961, it has four bedrooms, three baths and 2,112 square feet of living area.

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2425 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 14E A4128843 $710,000 Mel & Jan Goldsmith

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2350 Harbour Oaks Drive A4118606 $689,000 Beverly St Hilaire

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5393 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 210 A4128346 $649,900 Maureen Horn

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1212 Benjamin Franklin Drive 306 A4128927 $595,000 Marcia Frost

Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-812-8493

2525 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 5B A4116689 $585,000 Tom Delaney

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-387-3990

1000 Longboat Club Road 603 A4121022 $549,000 Catherine De’Ath

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1770 Benjamin Franklin Drive 402 A4106941 $525,000 Marianne Lebar

Lido Key 941-951-6660 941-650-0337

615 Dream Island Road 308 A4110859 $475,000 Sylvia Zimmerman

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-350-5022

2000 Harbourside Drive 1504 A4119984 $475,000 Tammy Mast

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TOP BUILDING PERMITS These are the largest building permits issued by the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Department for the week of July 30 through Aug. 5, in order of dollar amounts.

L O N G B OAT K E Y ADDRESS PERMIT APPLICANT AMOUNT

New single 531 Birdie Lane family home Igor Neyman $738,000 545 Sanctuary Drive No. B-204 Kitchen alterations Thomas Costello $150,000

Interior alterations 5881 GMD and roof renovations LB Key LLC $129,347

Alan Jerome Rosenfield 2525 GMD No. 2-A Interior alterations Revocable Trust $110,959 536 Yawl Lane Lift, dock and seawall Steven Newman $57,702

Sliding glass doors 380 GMD No. 512 and windows William Kimbell Jr. $57,000 813 Spanish Drive N. Interior alterations Cathy Higginbotham $50,000

Kitchen and bathroom 360 GMD clubhouse renovations Tangerine Bay Condo Assoc. $28,000 3401 Bayou Sound Pool fence Alexander Fine $20,000 5970 Emerald Harbor Drive Re-roof Andrew Aitken $14,000

Motorized hurricane 1975 GMD No. 311 shutters Tom Michaelides $13,449 1050 Longboat Club Road No. 805 Sliding glass door Mert Aksu $12,841 2525 GMD No. 2-B Sliding glass door James Kew, trustee $9,184 2525 GMD No. 3-D Sliding glass door Charles Moore $9,184 2525 GMD No. 2-C Sliding glass door James Kew, trustee $9,184 2525 GMD No. 14-F Sliding glass door John Rogan $9,184

Harrison E. Easop 2525 GMD No. 8-B Sliding glass door Revocable Trust $9,184 2525 GMD No. 14-C Sliding glass door John Wiley $9,184 2525 GMD No. 10-C Sliding glass door Buikema Enterprises Ltd. $9,184 2525 GMD No. 5-A Sliding glass door Janet Foisie $9,184 2525 GMD No. 2-E Sliding glass door Charles Cahn II $9,184 2525 GMD No. 13-E Sliding glass door Dorothy H. Carlson Trust $8,864 2525 GMD No. 11-A Sliding glass door Simon Greenman $8,864 2525 GMD No. 15-E Sliding glass door Victor De Poalo $8,384 2525 GMD No. 15-D Sliding glass door Warren Wyatt $8,384 Source: Town of Longboat Key

7125 Gulf Of Mexico Dr # 12 A3998052 $449,000 Richard Perlman

2055 Gulf Of Mexico Drive G2-104 A4122832 $396,000 Sharon Freeman

4360 Chatham Drive 108 A4119415 $299,000 Maruta Miluns

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4900 Gulf Of Mexico Drive PH3 A4128584 $429,000 Sharon Freeman

845 Benjamin Franklin Drive 105 A4128276 $349,900 Jessika Arman

527 Sutton Place A4119419 $292,000 Anna Kaminski

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Sarasota 941-388-4447 941-587-4202

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4621 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 9F A4117915 $397,500 Rory Jaret

740 Fox Street A4109613 $343,500 Bruce Meyer

3806 Gulf Of Mexico Drive C210 A4115590 $244,900 Stephen Harris

6695 Gulf Of Mexico Drive A4128398 $3,995,000 Bobbi Banan

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-356-2659

4975 Gulf Of Mexico Drive 303 A4123393 $3,450,000 Debra Lee Rugh

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-320-0677

625 Dream Island Road A4126153 $3,000,000 Rinat Sikdar

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741 Hideaway Bay Drive A4103504 $2,695,000 Saint Cacchiotti

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3060 Grand Bay Boulevard PH 1101 A4109140 $2,600,000 Michael Moulton

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501 Harbor Gate Way A4115384 $2,150,000 Ian Addy Pa

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535 Sanctuary Drive A801 A4114806 $1,995,000 Carol Cohen Pa

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-356-3829

6540 Gulf Of Mexico Dr A3997271 $1,895,000 Saint Cacchiotti

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435 L Ambiance Drive H202 A4113356 $1,795,000 Klaus Lang

Longboat Key 941-383-7591 941-320-1223

705 Jungle Queen Way A4128784 $1,699,000 Jenifer Schwell

Longboat Key 941-388-4447 941-780-0968

572 Gunwale Lane A4112296 $1,599,000 Jenifer Schwell

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VA C AT I O N R E N TA L S 1560 Harbor Cay Lane A4128433 $5,495,000 Ian Addy Pa

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New on the market! This breathtaking, bay-front estate is a showcase of beautiful details and designer embellishments. The lavish, open layout is ideal for entertaining. The generous master suite is located on the first floor, while the guest level features spacious suites, loft-style reading nook and media room. The remarkable exterior offers an array of entertaining areas, summer kitchen, heated swimming pool/spa, deep-water dock and multiple lifts.

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List price: $869,000 Website: www.511PuttingGreenLane.com

560 Putter Lane

Southern exposure! This 3BR/2BA home can be a boater’s retreat, renovation project or homesite to build your dream getaway.

List price: $849,000 Website: www.560PutterLane.com

2550 Harbourside Drive #321

Secluded 3BR/3BA, bay-front residence lives like a single-family home. Offering an expansive layout with living, dining rooms and den, plus east and west-facing terraces.

List price: $999,000 Website: www.MarinaBay3321.com

3060 Grand Bay Boulevard #123

Direct bay views at every turn from this updated Cayman residence. Offering custom built-ins and a beautiful new kitchen. This residence is a must see!

List price: $899,000 Website: www.GrandBay123.com

Charming, waterfront home is ready for you to begin a renovation project or to build your dream home. New dock and seawall cap.

List price: $699,000 Website: www.524HalyardLane.com

1211 Gulf of Mexico Drive #108

Beautiful southern Gulf views greet you from this 2BR/2BA beach getaway, offering lovely updates and a generous layout. Furnished.

List price: $749,000 Website: www.Promenade108.com

2071 Gulf of Mexico Drive #106

Lovely townhome-style, 2BR/21/2BA beach home at Seaplace with its own private onecar garage. Features a spacious floor plan and a garden coutryard. Furnished.

List price: $549,000 Website: www.BeachplaceT1106.com

SARASOTA

7655 Donald Ross Road West

1281 Gulf of Mexico Drive #801

Panoramic Gulf views! It is a rarity to find a high-floor, direct Gulf-front Arlington residence in the southwest location of the second building at The Water Club!

List price: $3,495,000 Website: www.WaterClubNorth801.com

Gorgeous 4BR/3BA home on estate-sized, preserve lot in Laurel Oak, a wonderful golf and tennis community. Welcomes you with lush landscaping and wooded views.

List price: $719,000 Website: www.7655DonaldRossRoadWest.com

609 Halyard Lane

Wonderful waterfront value. This 3BR/2BA home offers a new seawall cap, new roof and deep-water dockage. Easy beach access.

List price: $789,000 Website: www.609HalyardLane.com

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201 Gulf of Mexico Drive Suite 1 Longboat Key, Florida 34228 office: (941) 387-1840 cell: (941) 586-6668 fax: (941) 827-9444 website: longboatrealestate.com e-mail: roger@longboatrealestate.com

171310

530 Harbor Gate Way

Completely updated home, situated behind the secure gates of Bay Isles. This secluded residence features an open layout, cathedral ceilings, newer kitchen and baths. Also includes private beach access.

List price: $899,000 Website: www.3260BayouSound.com

511 Putting Green Lane

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