 folks is Brian Andrus. Brian is the president of Andrus Development Group. Andrus Development Group is the is a trademark and brand of Stone Ridge real estate company. They are currently renovating an abandoned 380,000 square foot condominium in Clearwater, Florida into top line luxury residence. You can visit them at Marina Bay 880.com. And I can tell you a flat out folks, okay? If you're looking for the St. Pete Clearwater area, you got to check this out. This is one of the most beautiful places in the world. Yes, I'm prejudice, okay? Because we're St. Pete now, but I was actually right on clear on Cleveland Street. So I know this project very well. And when you see what you're looking out at, it's pretty amazing. There's no doubt about it. Brian, welcome to TFNN. Thank you very much, Tom. I appreciate it. Thanks for having me. Absolutely. So first off, you have a great space and you can Google this on Google Earth folks, okay? And Google it, do a 33 North Garden Avenue. And you'll pull this up and you'll see what this looks like. So tell us what I'd love to get into first. Tell us the challenges of taking over, you know, a development that basically was stalled. Well, it goes like this. Let me give you a little historic and give you the context of this, Tom, if I may. Yes, please. What it was and what we actually aren't, even though there was an article saying we're rehabbing it, what I inherited and what I purchased was dirt, was grass, was a lot surrounding a marina. And the in 2006, if we all remember that, it was a tough time, but there was a project going here, this here being 880 North Oceola Avenue in Clearwater. Okay. I had leased and sold a very small property next door and the first said, hey, listen, the guy who did the marina here, he did a very nice job, put in new seawalls, lifts, water, electric, very nice. He was trying to build a high and dry here and it wasn't going. So I ended up buying the property from him. But that's 2000, that's moving back to 2019. Now, going back to 2006, there was a large project here envisioned by somebody else. And that did not take off, but they had piles in the ground, Tom, 300 or so piles in the ground. We're able to use some of those. We took all this dirt and then we built brand new. We just finished this 308,000 8 to 8 story buildings, 87 condos. And what I realized is that having met a lot of very sharp people here in the Bay Area that includes Larry Feldman and Jeff Finick and just a lot of different people. And people you know, people you've never seen, Steve, Gene, there's a lot of potential here in this area. And when I remember when I was speaking with Jeff Finick and he said, excuse me, with Kevin down in Sarasota developer, he said, where are you developing? I said, well, Clearwater, you know, and I kind of said it in a way I wasn't sure how to say it. He goes, well, no, hang on. He goes, I was asked to go up to St. Petersburg 12 years ago. And I said, forget it. That place is dead. Yeah, look at it today. So he said Clearwater. This goes back about three years ago. He goes Clearwater. It's just you've got Tampa doing its thing. You've got St. Pete taken off like it is Clearwater is natural next. And it's true. There's a lot going on here. You mentioned some things we're doing 33 North Garden Avenue is happens to be a 12 story office building that we did rehabilitate. And that building is now home to a billion dollar company, unicorn company called know before. So that's gone very well. We've done a little projects in the area. But it as you know, although you're in the financial markets for the main, what we have to do here in this county and Pinellas is really make lemonade out of lemon because a lot of the stuff that we're doing now is transforming the environment or taking something that was there and making it something brand new or renovating something we have. There's no doubt. And, you know, for all the folks out here, as Brian just mentioned, a very large company know before. Okay, Stu and Lars. Okay, they started this company. Okay, this is a very big security company. I was actually right next to them. And I remember at first off, I remember when Stu sold, you know, the Sun company. And then when he started it, it was like amazing him and Lars, they were the pictures folks. I actually saw this. They were next to us at I was at this 600 Cleveland, I think. That's right. There was two, there was two people. And now that's a billion dollar company. So there's no doubt you're in the right spaceman. So let's talk about, well, it's done now. So that's cool. So you got ahead of the aspect of now people having problems getting appliances, they're having all that. So you're up and going ready to sell these things, right? We're actually we've got almost two thirds sold now. Our people are moving in starting next week. That's awesome. So we just we just literally finished. And the the interesting thing about it is this area needed a spark. It needs something to Yes, others to get going. So we want to just set a mark and say, look, here's something very beautiful. That's on a marine. It's on the water. It's not near. It's actually on the water. Why don't you check it out? But we're going to do it in a way that takes all our talents are meaning the team I have my wife who's dynamic and put that all together and create something. And we've just got great reviews. I'd love to have you up Tom when you have a chance and we'll show you we can go see the know before building again and walk through and say hi to Stu and stuff that you can. We're only about four blocks from him. So we'll just pop over here and take a look at this. It's really a nice landmark and we've got just great reviews from veteran brokers from buyers of all all aspects of life. And I can tell you folks, no matter where you are in the United States. Okay. This is an incredible spot. You know, Brian, I came out of Boston 25 years ago. And when I came down here, I was looking like, Oh, my God, like this is unbelievable. I mean, it's just so gorgeous. You're looking out the window. When you look out the window here, folks, if you have a bad day, well, I can't help you, man. I don't think anyone can help you. So let me ask you, where are the buyers coming from? Great question. Yesterday. Actually, that was this morning. Wasn't that this morning, Kevin? Yeah, this morning, we had a Dr. Jay from California, Southern California. Yeah. Actually, well known doctor. Very nice guy. He and his family purchased one this morning. So they're from Los Angeles, moving out here. We have a yesterday afternoon, somebody came down and they're picking something in there from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Right. Because the value proposition here is amazing compared to, you know, these other cities, what even even when we're talking across the other coast, I mean, the value proposition is as good as you get as far as I can see. Yeah, that's true. And you know, when I first came here 25 years ago, I thought I had hit a gold rush. I couldn't believe the prices. And I was a little jaded. And so I remember telling the real estate agent, I said, look, should I offer 210? Because they're asking 200. And he looked at me and he said, what are you from California? I said, actually, yes. So anyway, we ended up getting this property for 200. But I was ready to pay more. And so you're right, there are a lot of people from the Northeast or from actually all over. I mean, yes, there's no one place there's locals to Orlando, across Clearwater Beach. It's great because we're getting the jobs now too. I mean, you know, you're getting the jobs happening. So it's pretty incredible. Listen, folks, okay, the website is marina880.com. Go down and check it out, man. I mean, to check it out and Google. Hey, Tom, 880 Marina Bay, Marina Bay 880. Sorry, man. Well, listen, Brian, you have a great one, safe one. We look forward to having you on again. I look forward. Listen, man, I definitely want to see this place. It's a beauty. I appreciate the invitation. Got an invite. Thank you, man. Have a great one. Have a safe one. You too. Okay, bye bye. Stay right there folks to come right back.