Investor group, family buys Plantation Road vacant land

BUYER: Plantation 37 LLC (principal: Randy Thibaut), Fort Myers
SELLER: Richard L Richards PA as trustee for the First Horizon Loan Corp.
PROPERTY: 12197 Plantation Road, Fort Myers
PRICE: $816,320
PREVIOUS PRICE: $8.5 million, June 2005
LAW FIRM ON DEED: Akerman Senterfitt, Tampa

BUYER: L.B. Andersen & Co. Inc. (0.54% interest), Wade Light (2.42%), Emma Light (1.21%), Kate Light (1.21%), Shannon Pirron (2.42%), Abigail Pirron (1.21%), Cassidy Pirron (1.21%), Jake Pirron (1.21%), Daniel Light (44.29%) and Leah Rae Light (44.29%), Barrington, Ill.
SELLER: Richard L Richards PA as trustee for the First Horizon Loan Corp.
PROPERTY: 12197 Plantation Road, Fort Myers
PRICE: $783,680
PREVIOUS PRICE: $8.5 million, June 2005
LAW FIRM ON DEED: Akerman Senterfitt, Tampa

PLANS, DESCRIPTION: An investor group, led by broker Randy Thibaut, and the Light-Pirron family purchased 38.76 acres of vacant land north of Daniels Parkway for a combined $1.6 million.

The price equated to $41,280 per acre.

“At this point that property was just purchased for a long-term hold,” says Kelli Eastman-Billings, sales manager for Thibaut's Land Solutions Inc. She says the buyers were primarily attracted by the location.