Jebco Ventures set to debut Embassy Suites, start on Hampton Inn & Suites nearby in Sarasota

Sarasota developer goes all in with a pair of new hotels despite a crowded field

  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • | 6:00 a.m. June 8, 2018
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LORI SAX Jim Bridges is developing a pair of new hotels in Sarasota — an Embassy Suites and a Hampton Inn & Suites — that together will add more than 300 new rooms to the city's inventory
LORI SAX Jim Bridges is developing a pair of new hotels in Sarasota — an Embassy Suites and a Hampton Inn & Suites — that together will add more than 300 new rooms to the city's inventory
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It began with a sketch.

The year was 2014, and Jim Bridges was trying to figure out what to do with the piece of property he owned at U.S. 41 and Fruitville Road in downtown Sarasota.

 

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