► CTO17 Sarasota sold an 18,120-square-foot retail property, at 1900 Fruitville Road, in downtown Sarasota, for $4.65 million to an undisclosed buyer. (pictured above)
► The University of South Florida appointed Deborah Stevens as director of the Office of Early University Programs, which is based on the Sarasota-Manatee campus.
► The Bay Park Conservancy, the nonprofit organization responsible for overseeing the redevelopment of 53-acres of city-owned land along Sarasota Bay into a public park, announced Charles D. Hines has joined its board of directors.
► Icard, Merrill, Cullis, Timm, Furen and Ginsburg, named lawyer Todd D. Kaplan as a shareholder.
► Michael Cuffage, the former president and CEO of CAN Community Health in Sarasota, will return to the organization as a board member.
► The Manatee County clerk of the circuit court and comptroller and Manatee County government earned a triple-crown medallion from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada.
► Save Our Seabirds, a bird rescue center in Sarasota, appointed Aaron Virgin as its new chief executive officer.
► Sarasota-based Roper Technologies, which designs software, will sell its subsidiary Zetec to Quebec-based Eddyfi/NDT in a $350 million deal.
► Tim Self, an investment adviser for LPL Financial and director of Gulfside Wealth, was named to the board of directors of First Step of Sarasota.
► The Sarasota County Economic Development Corp. named Erin Silk as vice president of business development services, and Lisa Krouse as CEO.
► GTE Financial opened a new Community Financial Center in Lakewood Ranch, making it the first Community Financial Center in the area.
► Mademoiselle Paris, a French bakery, will be adding a second location in the Wells Fargo Advisors Building on Main Street, in Sarasota.
► The board of directors of Step Up Suncoast named Amy Yount Tittle as the agency’s next president and CEO.
► Sarasota Bradenton International Airport president and CEO, Rick Piccolo, was named to the University of South Florida board of trustees.
► Connecticut-based William Raveis Real Estate, Mortgage and Insurance acquired Sarasota-based Key Solutions Real Estate, a family-owned brokerage with 44 professional sales associates.
► Seacoast Banking Corp. of Florida acquired Sarasota-based Sabal Palm Bancorp, parent company of Sabal Palm Bank, in a deal valued at $53.9 million.
► Firmo Construction, a commercial construction management firm, headquartered in Sarasota, is expanding its operations in southwest Florida with the opening of a new office in downtown Fort Myers.
