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Starting next year, Westfield Siesta Key mall in Sarasota will no longer be a Westfield property. The 435,000-square-foot mall, at U.S. 41 and Siesta Drive in the city of Sarasota, is now owned and operated by O’Connor Capital Partners, a real estate development, investment and management firm with offices in New York, Palm Beach and Mexico City. Unibail Rodamco Westfield and O’Connor previously owned the mall in a joint-venture partnership in which O’Connor owned 49% of the property, but...

It almost felt like being at Disney: Sarasota mall reimagines holiday light shows Haley Hinds reports SARASOTA, Fla. - A holiday light show in Sarasota is stopping people in their tracks. A local company spent thousands of hours dreaming up how hundreds of thousands of twinkling lights would dance with the music, pushing the limits of technology and imagination. "We kind of trick you into thinking its just normal white Christmas lights," said Justin Stancil, owner and CEO of Stancil Entertainme...