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Ken and Linda McGurn through their various companies have redeveloped award-winning projects since 1978. They are considered the proud parents of Gainesville’s downtown renaissance that took off after their successful national award winning 1986 Southeast Quadrant Redevelopment Project that included the Sun Center, Arlington Square Apartments, the Star Garage Legal Center, the Downtown Parking Garage and 14 blocks of city streetscape. Most recently they completed the 140,000 square feet mixed use Union Street Station in downtown Gainesville that combines retail on the first floor, offices on the second floor and 51 residential condominiums on the upper floors. An innovative skyway bridge connects the building with a parking garage developed, managed and owned by McGurn Investment Company.

Construction on the $30,000,000 mixed-use Main Street Landing downtown redevelopment in New Port Richey, Florida has also begun by Main Street Landing, LLP. This Tuscan-themed project with 55 residential units and ground-floor restaurants and retail stores will wind along the Pithlachascotee River on a once blighted site in New Port Richey. Port Orange Riverwalk, LLP, is the master developer for the Port Orange Riverwalk redevelopment project consisting of 38 acres and frontage along the Halifax River just south of Daytona Beach. This 12-year, $750-million project will include six condo towers, street-level mixed use commercial and residential development, a new downtown center, and a boardwalk.

KENNETH R. MCGURN

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES AND SERVICE

State Certified General Contractor - Inactive
State Registered Real Estate Broker
State Certified Community Association Manager
Chair Alachua/Bradford Region 9 Workforce Board
Secretary - Alachua County Housing Finance Authority
Treasurer - Alachua County Early Learning Coalition
Director University of Florida Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Board
Executive Board Emergent 1 - Tech Start-Up Company Investment Group
Member Florida Green Building Coalition
Member 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness - Chairing Two of Seven Committees
Past Chair Gold Standard Multi-Media (Medical Software Company)
Past Chair University of Florida Real Estate Advisory Board
Past PAC Chair State Home Builders Association
Past President Board of Directors Florida State Museum of Natural History
Past President Gainesville Apartment Association
Past Chair Alachua County Community Development Block Grant Board
Past Chair Downtown Redevelopment Agency
Past Chair Downtown Redevelopment Authority
Past Chair Downtown Redevelopment Advisory Board
Past Chair Alachua County Housing Finance Authority
Past Chair Boy Scouts North Florida Council Finance Champaign Committee
Past Chair Gainesville Builders Association PAC Committee
Past Chair Chamber of Commerce Sign Ordinance Committee
Past Chair of Chamber Government Budget Watch Committee
Past Vice-President Alachua County Arts Council
Past Director Gainesville Builders Association
Past Director National Home Builders Association (1994-2004)
Twice Past President Gainesville Chamber Orchestra Board
Twice Past President Gainesville Real Estate Exchangers
Past Owner and Publisher of The Business Journal

EDUCATION

1981
Ph.D. Real Estate and Urban Land Planning with Minors in Finance and Economics from the University of Florida. Thesis: Seasonal Fluctuations in the Price of Existing Single Family Houses.
1973
M.A. Real Estate and Urban Land Planning from the University of Florida. Thesis: The Cost of Growing (A Study of Municipal Services), showing the costs of urban sprawl.
1972
B.S.B.A. in Management with Honors from the University of Florida.

MILITARY SERVICE

1963 to 1970
Captain - U.S. Army

Foreign Service:
Viet Nam and Europe

LINDA C. MCGURN

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES AND MEMBERSHIPS

Director and Chair University of Florida Foundation Board
Member Florida Bar Association
Member Eighth Judicial Circuit Bar Association
Certified Public Accountant State of Florida
Director and Chair of the Audit Committee Florida Capital Group
Director Florida Capital Bank of Gainesville
Director University of Florida Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Board
Treasurer Gainesville Downtown Owners and Tenants, Inc. Board (Past Chair)
Member Class XVII Leadership Florida
Past Chair Gainesville Downtown Redevelopment Advisory Board
Past Chair Gainesville Downtown Redevelopment Agency
Past Vice-Chair Gainesville Annexation Commission
Past Treasurer Sustainable Alachua County, Inc.
Past Chair Gainesville Local Grace Commission
Past Chair Downtown Owners' and Tenants' Association Board
Past President Planned Parenthood of North Central Florida, Inc. Board
Past President Thomas Center Associates, Inc. Board
Past President Gainesville Women's Forum
Past Vice-President Florida Women's Alliance
Former Member Prevent Blindness Florida Board
Former Member University of Florida Fisher School of Accounting Steering Committee
Former Member Keep Alachua County Beautiful Board
Former Member Gainesville Civic Ballet (DANCE ALIVE!) Board
Former Member United Way Cabinet
Former Member Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Former Member Matheson Historical Center Board of Directors
Member Order of the Coif Law Honorary Association
Member Phi Kappa Phi National Honorary Fraternity
Member Beta Alpha Psi National Accounting Honorary Fraternity
Member Beta Gamma Sigma National Honorary Fraternity

EDUCATION

1978
J.D. in Law with High Honors from the University of Florida.
1974
Attended University of Florida Master's Program in Accounting.
1973
B.S.B.A. in Accounting with High Honors from the University of Florida.
1970
Attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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