Practice Areas & Industries: Akerman Senterfitt

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Due to population growth, suburban sprawl, and an extremely sensitive environment, Florida's development laws and regulations are among the most complicated in the nation. The firm offers clients one of the largest and most sophisticated land use and zoning practices in the State.

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Akerman Senterfitt's land use and zoning practice advises and represents real estate developers, businesses, and non-profit organizations in matters including:

• Land use entitlements
• Federal, state, and county incentive programs
• Zoning
• Environmental issues
• Wetlands and wildlife issues
• Archeological issues
• Historic preservation issues
• Transportation and other concurrency issues
• Development of public, quasi-public, and publicly sponsored commercial and residential projects
• Developments of regional impact
• Water issues
• Building code issues
• Brownfields

Our land use and zoning lawyers bring to clients the ability to understand and negotiate governmental processes. Working with the firm's real estate, litigation, corporate, finance (including public finance), and environmental lawyers, as well as with third-party consultants and lobbyists, they constitute one of only two or three practice groups in Florida that is equipped to manage any issue in this area, no matter how complex.

Our lawyers are active in representing various participants in the construction process, including owners, contractors, design professionals, and tenants, and have experience involving the design, construction and renovation of office, industrial, retail, condominium, multi-family, single-family, golf course, hotel, correctional facility, telecommunications, and other projects. Our real estate lawyers often team with Akerman Senterfitt's construction litigators in representing clients in litigation or arbitration proceedings involving construction disputes.

Clients:
Panther Real Estate , Kendall Commons, Inc. , Federated Department Stores, Inc. , J.W. Harris Company , Teachers Insurance Annuity Association , Ryder System, Inc. , Edison Schools, Inc, Baptist Health Systems , Jefferson at Douglas (JPI) , Hines Development Company , Indian Creek Village, Reliant Energy, Engineered Homes of Orlando, Windermere Properties Holding, Inc., CenterLake Properties, Inc., Pineloch Management, The St. Joe Company, St. Joe Hospitality Development, IncArvida Company, WCI, Avatar Property Holdings, Inc., Terrabrook, DeLuca Homes, Inc., Four Seasons Hotel, St. Lucie West Development, Inc., The Rouse Company, Baptist Hospital of Miami, Inc., Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, Ryder Systems, Inc., South Florida Stadium Corporation, Jetport Park (Industrial/Business Park), Sunflower Trail Estates (mixed use PD, Airport Industrial Park of Orlando, Avalon Associates of Delaware, CCC/GBI Keene's Pointe, L.P., Captain D's, Inc, Hard Rock Café International (USA), Inc., Shoney's, Inc., SunTrust Bank, American Automobile Association, Jeff Hanson Management & Promotions, Inc., , Creed, Barron Collier Partnership, The Latt Maxcy Corporation, United States Sugar Corporation, Southern Gardens Groves Corp., Evans Properties, Inc, Graves Brothers Co., Miller Brewing Co, Conoco Oil Co, Paul Davis Restoration, Inc., Pablo Beach Properties, L.L.C., Fletcher Land Corporation, Eagle Creek Development Corporation, Arbor Lake Development Corporation, Great Gulf Group of Companies, Lexington Corporate Properties Trust, Marriott Corporation, BP Amoco, Racetrac Petroleum, Altman Development Corporation, Arbor Lakes Development Corporation, CED Construction Corporation, The Emerson Group, Halvorsen Development Corp., IRT Property Company, NTS Development Company, Richland Properties, Richland Towers, Trycon Associates, Unicorp National Developments, Inc., U-Haul Corporation, The Alter Group