Sarasota developer Sadek Omar has been to many places, but he says one stands out above the rest.
“I personally feel like the sky’s the limit for Sarasota,” says Omar, a partner at Ore Development, which is a portfolio company of Sarasota-based developer Jebcore. A native of Qatar who has lived in Pennsylvania and Virginia, Omar adds that Sarasota is “the most beautiful market I’ve ever seen.”
Before coming to Florida about six years ago, Ore developed more than $1 billion in assets outside the state, Omar says, primarily in the Mid-Atlantic area, including a more than two-acre redevelopment project called Central Armature Works in Washington, D.C., that included apartments, a hotel, retail and pocket parks…