ONE LINERS Palm Beach
► Jeff Zalkin has joined Kaufman Lynn Construction as vice president of development.
► Opustone in West Palm Beach hosted an event for interior designers and fabricators with Laminam, a strong-but-thin porcelain slab product developed in Italy.
► CenterState bank handled the $15 million, 15-year refinancing of Lake Worth Medical at 5065 State Road 7.
► The Gunster law firm, based in West Palm Beach, has added seven new attorneys to its South Florida offices.
► New York-based Vault announced it is offering insurance and reinsurance for high-value homes, art and jewelry in Palm Beach and other areas of Florida.
► Cushman & Wakefield negotiated a deal for BHI Energy’s 100 employees to move to 500 Columbia Drive, West Palm Beach.
► Meridian Capital Group of Boca Raton arranged $19.6 million in acquisition and repositioning financing for the purchase and conversion of an Orlando Comfort Inn into a Crowne Plaza.
► NAI/Merin Hunter Codman has been retained by local investor Belvedere Acquisition to oversee the renovation and rebranding of Palm Beach International Plaza, a 111,000-square-foot office complex at 1601 Belvedere Road, across from Palm Beach International Airport.
► Link & Rockenbach, with name partners Scott J. Link and Kara Berard Rockenbach, has opened a civil trial and appellate law firm in West Palm Beach.
► Hedrick Brothers Construction of West Palm Beach and Kirco have created Hedrick Kirco Properties to offer development, construction and property management of corporate-driven real estate.
► ESPN Events, a division of ESPN, announced Cheribundi Tart Cherry as the new title sponsor for the Boca Raton Bowl.
► The Florida Small Business Development Center Network has teamed up with Florida Atlantic University to open a location at FAU.
►Call 4 Health, headquartered in Delray Beach, has added the following staffers: Alex Karanau, chief information officer (above); Lissette Ferro-Lloret, director of operations; and Victoria Rodriguez, marketing specialist.
►Construction management and general contracting firm Kaufman Lynn Construction has moved into an ultramodern building designed by RLC Associations at 3185 S. Congress Ave., Delray Beach.
► Bonaventure Equity founder and CEO Ross O’Brien, left, honors SFBW Chairman and CEO Gary Press as the group’s Top Innovator in Media.
► NAI/Merin Hunter Codman has completed 144,000 square feet of leases at Colonnade Centrepark East and Colonnade Centrepark West within Colonnade’s first year of ownership.
►New York-based accounting, tax and advisory firm Marks Paneth hosted a cocktail reception to celebrate the opening of its office at 2255 Glades Road, Boca Raton.
►Richard Douglas, a second-level sommelier formerly with MGM International, has joined Louie Bossi’s Ristorante as general manager in Boca Raton.
Photo by Aaron Bristol
