The 100,000-sf, seven-story project, being developed by VeneraHoldings LLC, is slated for a 2.5-acre site on the east side of RedRoad and bordered by San Remo and Venera avenues one block south ofUS Highway 1. Venera Holdings is a partnership of banker andinvestor George Scholl and Ford Gibson, a more than 20-yearcommercial real estate industry veteran and president of bothVenera Holdings and San Remo Developments LLC, which Gibson formedin 2003. Gibson is formerly president of Codina Group.

The office condos range in size from 1,200 sf to 20,000 sf.Twenty-year-old, Miami-based Kenneth Weston & Associates Inc.is handling sales and marketing for Plaza San Remo. Space wasoffered for $285 and $305 per sf, or roughly $350,000 to $6million. Gibson says he expected the success they experienced insales, with the project selling 60% of the space in the first twoweeks.

The anchor retail tenant is Whole Foods Market, which is taking50,000 sf. Other tenants include dentists, plastic surgeons anddermatologists. The project offers five parking spaces per 1,000sf.