Business Briefs

Local lawyer suspended

Local lawyer Harold George Uhrig, 370 Lake Seminary Circle, Maitland, has been suspended for 60 days, effective May 1, following an April 16 court order. Uhrig created another law firm, outside of his criminal law practice, to assist his non-lawyer son’s company, which assisted timeshare owners who felt they’d been scammed by timeshare resale companies and wanted refunds. The new firm provided form letters to customers that were misleading and implied that the law firm was available to litigate against timeshare resale companies, if necessary.

Expanding Women’s Care

Karen R. Charron, ARNP-BC, RNC-OB, has recently joined Winter Park OB-GYN, a division of Women’s Care Florida, located in Winter Park, Oviedo and Waterford Lakes. Karen will serve patients in all three locations.

Sanford sellers

NAI Realvest recently negotiated the sales of two industrial properties totaling $686,400 in Sanford. Michael Heidrich, a principal at NAI Realvest negotiated both transactions representing the sellers.

McWeeney-Smith Real Estate Partnership of Orlando sold a 12,000 square foot office-warehouse building at 751 Central Park Drive in Sanford’s Central Florida Industrial Park for $600,000 to Space Port USA Inc. The buyer was represented by David Hammett of CRE Advisors.

Royal Oak promotes

Royal Oak Homes, based in Orlando’s Baldwin Park, has promoted Steve Shackelford to construction manager and appointed Tim Tassone financial analyst.

United Arts gets grant

United Arts of Central Florida announced it has received a $35,000 grant from the PNC Foundation for pre-kindergarten educational arts programs designed to teach, inspire and expose children to cultural opportunities not readily available to them.

Going wireless

Craig Katterfield of Crossman & Company, one of the largest Southeast providers of commercial real estate services, along with co-broker Janet Galvin of Liberty Universal Management signed a new lease for 1,050 square feet at 400 S. Orlando Ave. in Maitland. The landlord of Shoppes at Maitland leased the space to Avant Wireless.