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Published on: 11/21/2004
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"We're covering an awful lot of the bases," said Ernie Euler, president of Matthew Development LLC, the development company behind the Shoppes at Lake Andrew, and a development partner of The Avenue Viera.
"It would be foolish to pretend that the retail patterns are not going to change," he said.
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But what now seems like a no-brainer for retailers was actually the result of considerable lobbying by The Viera Co., Euler and Mike Renfro, , Euler's partner at Viera-based Matthew Development.
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Euler and Renfro, are former competitors who had shepherded many commercial land deals in the area.
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Euler said they finally were able to convince Bob Painter, executive vice president of Dallas-based Rave Motion Pictures, to visit Viera and study the area's demographics.
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"As the better retailers committed first, the rest started to come in very quickly after that," Euler said.