Gary L Cole AIA, Esq. Joins Bryant Miller Olive
Further Expanding Law Firm’s Tampa Office

TAMPA, Fla. - Bryant Miller Olive, one of the nation’s top public finance law firms and a leader in government law and lobbying, announced today the addition of attorney Gary L. Cole AIA, Esq. to its Tampa office. Cole is a Florida and Illinois-licensed attorney and an Illinois-licensed architect with over 20 years experience in commercial and residential real estate development.

Since 1998, Cole has successfully combined his experience as a licensed architect with his legal expertise to provide private and public-sector clients with a diverse range of real estate development legal services related to complex purchase and sales transactions, leasing, construction financing, legal entity formation, land use, design and construction contracts and litigation, accessibility dispute resolution and historic preservation law.

Cole has represented clients on a wide range of projects including: large retail centers, “big box” and outparcel development, commercial and residential historic rehabilitation, hotel, industrial, office, telecom, public bid/construction matters and residential development. He also specializes in obtaining development economic incentives including tax-increment financing, community development district financing, and historic rehabilitation-related development incentives. At Bryant Miller Olive, Cole will add to his practice developer services related to emerging “green” technologies and creative design and legal solutions for sustainable commercial and residential development. He is also a member of the firm’s “Public-Private Practice Group” which facilitates strategic relations between public entities, private developers and citizen advocate groups to achieve mutually beneficial results for all parties.

Cole was previously In-House Counsel for The Sembler Company in St. Petersburg, Florida, one of the largest retail developers in the southeast United States, and an attorney at two large national law firms in Chicago. He practiced architecture for over a decade before becoming an attorney and has taught construction and material failure analysis at the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Illinois where he is a visiting Associate Professor of Architecture.

Cole received his law degree from Loyola University Chicago in 1998, where he was senior editor of the National Association of Administrative Law Judges Journal and received the American Jurisprudence Award for International Law. He received his Bachelor of Architecture (1988) and Master of Architecture (1992) degrees from the University of Illinois, where he received numerous scholarships and prizes for his academic work. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Urban Land Institute, the International Council of Shopping Centers, the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

About Bryant Miller Olive

A national leader in legal matters related to public finance, state and local government, complex transactions and project finance, Bryant Miller Olive is a highly specialized law practice whose attorneys work closely in related fields. Bryant Miller Olive services clients from offices in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Jacksonville, Miami, Orlando, St. Petersburg, Tallahassee and Tampa.

The Firm has been consistently ranked as one of the top bond counsel firms in the Southeast for the last several years, and the number one bond counsel firm in the State of Florida by Securities Data Company, Inc. for the last decade based on the number of issues completed. The Firm was ranked as the number one disclosure counsel firm in the Southeast, and sixth nationally for 2007, based on dollar volume.

The Firm has represented more than 500 bond issuers over the past three decades. Firm attorneys have served as bond counsel or underwriters’ counsel for issues in the District of Columbia, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and the U.S. Virgin Isla

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