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We’re happy to announce that we completed another acquisition for Fund VI on September 1st! This 40K SF industrial building at 2650 Jewett Lane in Sanford, Florida, is home to Brew Theory, Orlando’s first contract production brewery. Special shout out to V 3 Commercial Advisor, Solomon Attaway, for bringing us the deal, and to our stellar legal representation, JJ Johnson with Fishback Dominick. Congratulations to all involved in this exciting transaction!

Winter Park law firm Fishback Dominick to represent City of Ocoee Richard Geller, a board-certified specialist in city, county and local government law from Fishback Dominick, is Ocoee's new city attorney.

TOMORROW IS THE DAY - RIDE DAY 🤩🚴 We would like to give a huge THANK YOU to our 2023 JDRF Northern Florida Team Sponsors: CROM, The Voorhees Family, The Bonn Family, Diane Meiller & Associates, NV Massages, and Fishback Dominick 💙

Thank you for supporting our amazing riders as they take off on a 100-mile trek this weekend at the Burlington Ride to raise money for breakthroughs that transform the lives of those living with T1D until a cure is found. We are so grateful for your commitment to turning type one into type none!

John and Anne Bennett with paralegal Cheryl Mills.

Thank you to our bronze sponsors, Fishback Dominick, HDR, Consulting Engineers, Inc. and & Associates, Inc.! Your support helps create momentum for more bike-friendly areas in . It was nice to see some familiar faces out riding the 28 miles!

Fishback Dominick is proud to support Bike/Walk Central Florida, a non-profit dedicated to improving safety for people riding bikes and on foot. A few photos from the organization’s Bike 5 Cities ride, through Winter Park, Eatonville, Maitland, Casselberry, and Orlando, including a chat with Commissioner Bob Dallari in Casselberry.

Member Spotlight: Fishback Dominick Law Firm Celebrates Its 85th Year – Fishback Dominick August 20, 2020 Member Spotlight: Fishback Dominick Law Firm Celebrates Its 85th Year Winter Park Weekly e-blast from Winter Park Chamber of Commerce – August 20, 2020 As one of the oldest law firms in Central Florida, Fishback Dominick hasn’t just watched Central Florida grow and evolve but has...

Orange County Bar Association Law Day 5K breakfast and running crew benefiting the Orange County Law Foundation.

Thank you Fishback - Dominick , Attorneys and Counselors at Law for your donation that provided this outdoor bulletin board! Your generosity is appreciated!

Chuck and Marie Stepter with Mary Anne De Petrillo, Orange County Legal Aid Society, at Ms. De Peteillo’s retirement party. (Photo: OCBA’s ‘The Briefs’)

Kurt Ardaman to Head Florida Municipal Attorneys Association | Orlando Political Observer (Orlando Politics) Kurt Ardaman, municipal attorney for Belle Isle, DeBary, Longwood, Winter Garden and Winter Park, was recently named president of the Florida Municipal Attorneys Association (FMAA) at the organization’s 38th Annual Seminar. Ardaman will serve a one-year term as the association’s president. “Th...

Congratulations to Rick Geller...

Rick Geller | People on The Move - Orlando Business Journal Rick Geller, a partner with Fishback Dominick, achieved The Florida Bar’s recognition as board-certified in City, County and Local Government Law. Florida Bar board certification requires a rigorous evaluation of knowledge, experience, competency, and professionalism. Geller, a litigator for 27 ye...

Congratulations to Kurt Ardaman...

Kurt Ardaman | People on The Move - Orlando Business Journal Kurt Ardaman, partner in the Fishback Dominick law firm, has been elected President of The Florida Municipal Attorneys Association (FMAA), an organization of attorneys representing over 400 municipalities throughout Florida. In practicing municipal law for 35 years and being Florida Bar board certif...

Municipal attorneys across the State of Florida elected Fishback Dominick partner Kurt Ardaman chair of the Florida Municipal Attorney’s Association at their annual conference in Palm Beach. The conference was the largest in the organization’s history.

Partner Rick Geller addressed a breakout session at the 27th Congress for the New Urbanism in Louisville, Kentucky on the topic of school siting. Rick argued that high schools embedded in neighborhoods with multiple access points are safer for teens, promote healthy walking and biking to school, and handle motorist traffic more efficiently than high schools along major arterial highways, isolated from neighborhoods with a single point of entry.

Fishback Dominick attorney Eric Jontz is President of the Orange County Bar Foundation, which educates citizens about the judicial system.

We are so thankful to have such a generous Orlando community and legal community here in Central Florida. The Orange County Bar Foundation continuing to strive each day to create legal awareness and support those who support us. Thank you OCBA!

Partner Kurt Ardaman (on the right) playing cards with actress Rachel Harris (‘Suits,’ ‘Lucifer’) to benefit United Cerebral Palsy. Fishback Dominick is proudly a principal sponsor of UCP’s mission to provide treatment and care for special needs children.

Dan Akroyd as Elwood, singing “Born in Chicago” with two convincing Blues Brothers impersonators, at last night’s United Cerebral Palsey Gala.

Fishback Dominick is proud to serve as one of the UCP Gala’s principal sponsors each year. UCP provides education and therapy to special needs children across Central Florida, allowing them to return home to their loving families every evening.

Fishback Dominick breakfast crew at the Orange County Bar Association 5K race.

Judicial panel rules Windermere golf course can’t be turned into homes

Another win for Fishback Dominick and the residents of Windermere Country Club...

digitaledition.orlandosentinel.com The once prestigious Windermere Country Club might never again host a golf tournament, but its owner also can’t turn the ragged links and weedy fairways into single-family homes as he had hoped, a judicial panel has ruled.

Court sides with county in appeal by Windermere Country Club developer | Windermere Observer | West Orange Times & Windermere Observer

A huge win for Fishback Dominick and citizens of Windermere Club in Orange County...

orangeobserver.com A circuit judge ruled Orange County had not denied due process to golf course owner Bryan DeCunha.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Fishback Dominick.

Fishback Dominick is proud to sponsor Law and Government Day for Winter Park youth leaders...

Law and Government Day is off to a great start! Thank you to Krispy Kreme Winter Park for the awesome breakfast, and to our sponsor Fishback Dominick for making today possible!

Lake commissioners approve controversial Cemex sand mine

By Stephen Hudak Staff Writer, Orlando Sentinel

Lake County commissioners cleared the way Tuesday for a controversial sand mine in south Lake that will provide tons of building material for new roads and bridges.

Commissioners ended years of fiery debate over Cemex Construction Materials’ proposed mining operation by approving a permit to dig on property near Lake Louisa, south of Clermont, and by accepting on a 4-1 vote a settlement to end litigation with the company.
Headquartered in Mexico, Cemex plans to mine about 526 acres of the 1,200-acre site, located about a mile southeast of U.S. Highway 27 and Schofield Road. Critics worried the sand mine would increase truck traffic and cause environmental damage to surrounding properties.

Commissioner Leslie Campione cited compromises by Cemex that improved the company’s original sand-mine proposal, calling many changes “big wins.” She pointed out the company has agreed to changes that will shield adjacent properties, protect a nearby U-pick blueberry farm and save clay trails preferred by runners and triathletes in training.

“There was so much discussion in the past that this was going to be a giant sand mine that left a hole,” she said.

The company also agreed to pay for an east-west road to ease traffic fears and donate 100 acres for a county park.

Cemex touted its mission in a statement praising the decision.

“Today’s action by the County Commission will allow Cemex to move forward and provide a much-needed sand resource to support infrastructure and other construction projects in Florida,” company spokesman Walker Robinson said in an email. “The mine will provide additional jobs and tax benefits to Lake County.

Unlike earlier public meetings on the proposed Cemex operation, there were no protesters waving anti-sand mine signs and no raucous debate.

A previous board narrowly rejected Cemex’s request, 3-2, in March 2015, but two commissioners who voted against it — Welton Cadwell and Jimmy Conner — were ousted in the 2016 elections. Both Cadwell’s successor, Josh Blake, and Conner’s, Wendy Breeden, sided Tuesday with Cemex.

Conner said he was convinced his opposition to the sand mine sparked more than $100,000 in anonymous political-action committee money in an effort to defeat him.

Commissioner Sean Parks, the third “no” vote in 2015, had been concerned about several issues, including the mine’s potential to harm nearby farms and the “Wellness Way” project, a 16,000-acre area envisioned as an employment center with high-wage jobs in health care, fitness and wellness-related businesses and shopping, recreation and entertainment opportunities.
Cemex challenged the county’s 2015 decision, and an administrative judge sided with the company in a decision in August.
Parks opposed the project again, saying he wanted about two more weeks to work with Cemex on a “sticking point.” He hoped to persuade the company to provide 40 or more acres for a commerce center in the area.
Still, he said he has had “significant and lengthy and extensive and sometimes a little bit contentious” talks with the company to iron out differences.

“I do see a lot of positives with what happened today [Tuesday],” he said. “Overall, I think we’ve come a long way in the last two years from what we had with the original application.”

In addition to land for a park, Parks said the settlement allows Cemex an around-the-clock mining operation but requires the company to build a road from its site on U.S. 27 to the Orange County line. The road is estimated to cost more than $10 million.

Commissioners also received letters of support for the mine Tuesday from former opponents, Thomas J. Karr, Rex Clonts and other owners of large-tract properties adjacent to the Cemex site.

Attorney Kurt Ardaman, who represented owners of 2,500 acres near Cemex’s Lake Louisa property, said he believes the settlement protects the planning vision represented by “Wellness Way.” He also said communities in Lake and Orange counties would benefit from the new road Cemex will pay for.

The company said in a statement that it strives to be a good neighbor and will work to ensure the sand mine upholds Cemex’s “commitment to environmental excellence.”
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We aim to take clients to great heights. Kurt Ardaman at Base Camp, Mt. Everest.

City Attorney Kurt Ardaman distributing sand bags in the City of Winter Garden in preparation for Hurricane Irma.