At S-One Holdings Corporation, knowing how to collaborate from afar has always been part of the job.
Before the pandemic, the digital imaging company had about 120 employees physically working at its Sarasota headquarters on Main Street in Sarasota. It also, however, had people in Milwaukee, Belgium and Barcelona offices and others working remotely. We’ve never been a you have to be in an office type of place, Executive Vice President of Culture Angie Gruss said. We’re more about, if you’re an asset to the company and the team and you re growing and getting work done then you ll fit in.
The bowling alley closed because of COVID-19 in March 2020, then shut down permanently in September.
Linda Emery and Nick DeVito II of Ian Black Real Estate represented the church in the transaction. Max Krzyminski of JLL Capital Markets represented the seller, iStar Bowling Centers 1 LP.
CoastLife Church currently worships from a 14,336-square-foot building that sits on its three-acre campus at 2235 Seaboard Ave., Venice, in unincorporated Sarasota County.
The church has struggled for years to accommodate the number of people who attend its three service times at 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m. and noon on Sundays.
The new location will nearly triple the congregation’s footprint. The 42,792-square-foot former bowling alley sits on a 5-acre lot with ample parking for the growing congregation.
Kojo to open in downtown Sarasota
A new Asian restaurant, featuring the same ownership as a popular Sarasota-Manatee dining destination, will take over a prime location in downtown Sarasota.
Kojo has moved into the 1289 N. Palm Ave. space that formerly housed Lemon Tree Kitchen on Palm Avenue Parking Garage’s ground floor, with hopes to open by late February, said co-owner Natalia Levey. She is also an owner of Speaks Clam Bar, a New York-style Italian clam bar with Lakewood Ranch and St. Armands Circle locations.
Levey said Kojo was inspired by time she spent in Asia as well as traveling with her husband, and will incorporate cuisines from across the continent in its menu.
“As (Alzheimer’s) progresses, what you often get is reminiscing, people talking about the past,” said Dr. Michael Mullan, executive director of the Roskamp Institute, a Sarasota research center focused on diseases of the mind. “They might talk about what they did in the 1950s, or even in the 1990s and 1980s and so on. It’s an interesting feature of the disease.”
A new type of senior center coming to Sarasota this summer uses a 1950s aesthetic to help seniors struggling with cognitive decline find joy through those easily recallable memories.
The facility, called Town Square, is a day center for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia designed with a 1950s theme. Florida TS1 LLC, a franchisee of Town Square, announced last week that it is bringing an 11,120-square-foot location to the Oaks Plaza shopping center at 3880 Central Sarasota Parkway. Construction will begin this month, and the center is expected to open over the summer.