After just a year of marketing, the HuB Building on Fruitville Road and its namesake business incubator are full. Owned by Sarasota entrepreneur Jesse Biter, the 40,000- square-foot building is primarily occupied by the HuB collaborative workspace, which occupies the third floor and half of the four-story building’s second floor. With the arrival of the Economic Development Corp. of Sarasota County and the leasing of some remaining second floor incubator…
Read MoreSoftware entrepreneur plans pub next to the HuB
Software entrepreneur Jesse Biter wanted a place downtown to have a beer after work with friends and co-workers, but the 36-year-old just couldn’t seem to find the right hangout. Mattison’s on Main Street often is too crowded for him. The Sports Page is closing to make way for condos. Smokin’ Joes is, well, too smoky. So Biter decided to build his ideal place himself. Biter, a multimillionaire who has acquiring…
Read MoreHuB Opening Illuminated with Building Projection by Ringling College Student Motion Design Team
The HuB of Sarasota recently highlighted the grand opening of their new space with projected animation on the front façade of their newly renovated 40,000 sq. ft. building at 1680 Fruitville Road. Visually overwhelming over 1,200 attendees, the projection was the result of 24 students in The Department of Motion Design, at Ringling College of Art and Design, working over 5 weeks to generate the resulting animations. Direct output of…
Read MoreGod, Politics and Business
At age 34, Jesse Biter could have moved anywhere, done anything. It was December 2010, and AutoTrader, the online car sale behemoth, paid tens of millions to acquire the online inventory software company he had built up over the previous 14 years. Biter could have spent his time flying around in his single-prop Cirrus SR22, spear-fishing with buddies, floating on a yacht. Instead, he stayed in Sarasota and went back…
Read MoreHuB moving into new home: Century Bank Building
It’s been one of the most ill-kept secrets in Sarasota, but the HuB — the downtown-based, self-described “incubator for creative minds” — is moving to new digs at 1680 Fruitville Road. The group said Monday it expects work on the former Century Bank building to be completed by October. The HuB’s familiar green logo already is atop the building, which remains surrounded by scaffolding. The bank building was sold about…
Read MoreSarasota entrepreneur buys Century building
BUYER: Biter Idea Vault LLC (Jesse M. Biter Revocable Trust), Sarasota SELLER: Century Bank FSB PROPERTY: 1680, 1700 and 1711 Fruitville Road, Sarasota PRICE: $2.8 million PREVIOUS PRICE: $2.55 million and $150,000, August 1993 and $172,000, October 1995 FILING FIRM ON DEED: Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Dallas PLANS, DESCRIPTION: Sarasota businessman Jesse Biter purchased the 41,617-square-foot former Century Bank building on Fruitville Road for $2.8 million. The price equated to…
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