Sarasota has lost a longtime civic and environmental advocate as well as a business leader. Robert Allen Richardson died March 29. He was 86.
Richardson was born in Hamilton, Ohio, north of Cincinnati, Aug. 18, 1938.
He moved to Sarasota in 1962 and worked in concrete, then had a traveling job selling boats. Since 1972, he had been involved in the sale and development of commercial real estate in the area, founding Richardson Realty. In the 1980s he became one of the principals of Richardson Kleiber Walter…