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CA Ventures buys Boca Raton apartment complex for $80M
Investcorp bought the apartments in 2016 for $70M Miami / Share via Shortlink
Investcorp co- CEOs Hazem Ben-Gacem and Rishi Kapoor, Ventures CEO Tom Scott and 135 Northwest 20th Street in Boca Raton (Investcorp; Ventures; Google Maps)
A Chicago-based real estate investment firm paid $80 million for a 159-unit student housing complex in downtown Boca Raton near Florida Atlantic University.
CA Ventures, led by Thomas Scott, bought the complex at 135 Northwest 20th Street, according to records. The 228,000-square-foot complex, built in 2015 and known as “University Park,” is on about 11 acres. The price equates to $503,145 per unit.
Dr. Thomas G. Carpenter, the University of North Florida s founding and first president has died on Wednesday, Jan. 6 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was 94.
Devan Patel, Naples Daily News
Published
11:21 am UTC Feb. 6, 2021
Devan Patel, Naples Daily News
Published
11:21 am UTC Feb. 6, 2021
This story was updated on Feb. 5, 2021, to reflect that while former FDLE Commissioner Gerald Bailey’s name was on a letter stating why a Florida agency declined to punish an officer who was forced out at the Sunny Isles Police Department in 2006, the letter was sent by the then-chairman of the Probable Cause Panel of the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission.
Joseph Floyd turned Florida’s Crestview Police Department into a criminal enterprise, the judge said at his 2013 sentencing, but his willingness to break the rules didn’t start there.
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‘Hail to the queen’: Saving the Caribbean queen conch
[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Gisele Galoustian (Florida Atlantic University) highlights Dr. Megan Davis’s extensive research into the science and art of growing queen conch and her collaboration with Conservación ConCiencia in Puerto Rico to assist with stock enhancement fisheries of the conch.
With an estimated lifespan between 25 to 40 years, the queen conch (
Strombus gigas) is a prized delicacy long harvested for food and is revered for its beautiful shell. Second only to the spiny lobster, it is one of the most important benthic fisheries in the Caribbean region. Unfortunately, the species faces a challenge of survival: how to endure and thrive, as populations are in a steady state of decline from overfishing, habitat degradation and hurricane damage. In some places, the conch populations have dwindled so low that the remaining conch cannot find breeding par