U.S. Tent Rental owners consolidating and expanding

BUYER: Boyle Ventures Inc. (officers: Timothy, Clifford and Brian Boyle), Sarasota
SELLER: R&J 7600 LLC, Matoaka Investments LLC and Mary Keels as personal representative of the Estate of Charles M. Keels deceased
PROPERTY: 7600 Matoaka Road and a portion of East 28th Street Court, Sarasota
PRICE: $2.45 million
PREVIOUS PRICE: $2.2 million, December 2002

BUYER: R&J 7600 LLC (manager: Robert Waechter) and Matoaka Investments LLC (managers: John Patterson and Gary Schmidt), Sarasota
SELLER: Boyle Ventures Inc.
PROPERTY: 7190 and 7192 E. 21st St., Sarasota
PRICE: $200,000
PREVIOUS PRICE: $215,000, September 2011
LAW FIRM ON DEED: Williams Parker Harrison Dietz & Getzen, Sarasota
PLANS, DESCRIPTION:
The Boyle family, owners of U.S. Tent Rental Inc., purchased the 73,820-square-foot former Berry Plastics industrial building and an adjacent 16.85 acres for $2.45 million.

The price equated to $33 per square foot for just the existing building. That figure is less than the two-year average price per square foot for industrial space ($41) in the Tampa Bay area, according to the CoStar Group.

Located northeast of the Sarasota Bradenton International Airport, the large warehouse/manufacturing building features eight dock-high loading areas and six overhead doors, three-phase power and ceiling heights that range from 16 feet up to 24 feet. The building sits on two acres of land.

Roughly half of the vacant land to the north is wetlands, leaving about eight acres of developable land. The purchase also included a cell phone tower leased to Verizon.

Brian Boyle, CEO of U.S. Tent Rental, says the goal of the purchase was to consolidate and expand the company's space. The business was previously operating from a 20,858-square-foot warehouse/distribution building in Centre Park Industrial Park and two condominium units.

“We were really tired of moving and buying more space,” Boyle says. “Hopefully this will last us forever, but it should at least meet our needs for the next 10 years. We don't need all the warehouse space now, but we think with the economy, we are going to need it pretty shortly. Our business is picking up again, and we were doing pretty well during the recession.”

The company plans to remodel the building and office space and add loading docks in the back before relocating.

Joe Hembree of Hembree & Associates Inc. represented the seller, and Carl Wise of Preferred Commercial Inc. represented the buyer.

Further reducing its purchase cost, the Boyle family sold two 1,950-square-foot flex space condominiums to the sellers of the larger building and land, R&J 7600 LLC and Matoaka Investments LLC, for $200,000.

The purchase entity, Boyle Ventures Inc., mortgaged the property to JPMorgan Chase Bank NA for two loans totaling $3.57 million.