Overview
Elise Batsel is a Shareholder and a member of the Firm's Board of Directors. She focuses her practice on land use, zoning, permitting, and transactional real estate.
Elise represents national and local developers and property owners before local, state, and federal governments on land use and land development issues. She has extensive experience representing clients in a broad range of matters involving variances, rezonings, permitting, licensing, comprehensive plan amendments, and entitlements for multi-family commercial, industrial, hotel, master planned and mixed-use projects. She also has experience with economic development projects, as well as Public-Private Partnerships, and advises clients regarding the redevelopment of environmentally impacted sites and environmental and wetland permitting issues.
In the Real Estate arena, Elise represents property owners and developers in real estate acquisitions, dispositions, financings and leasing transactions.
Representative Experience
Land Development, Zoning, Environmental & Government Affairs
- Represented developer in securing entitlements for over 7,000,000 square feet of entitlements for the redevelopment of a shopping mall.
- Represented developers in the negotiation of development agreements, permitting and entitlements for the development of multiple golf course and residential communities.
- Represented purchaser of hotel in the negotiation of entitlements, including comprehensive plan amendment and rezoning, for 100-room hotel addition.
- Represented the developer of the first urban infill multi-family redevelopment project in Tampa, Florida.
- Represented operator in the negotiation of a P3 Concessionaire Agreement “Public-Private Partnership” for parking facilities.
Real Estate
- Represented developer in the acquisition, financing and entitlements for the redevelopment of $19 million mixed-use development.
- Represented family office in the acquisition of a $65 million office tower.
- Represented national retailer on real estate matters related to $100 million licensee acquisition.
Professional & Community Involvement
- Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Tampa Bay
- President, 2023
- President-Elect, 2022
- National Delegate, 2021-Present
- Board of Directors, 2015-2019, 2021-Present
- University of Florida (UF) Bergstrom Real Estate Advisory Board, 2018-Present
- Hillsborough County Bar Foundation, Board of Trustees, 2022
- First American Title Insurance Company, Attorney Agent
Recognition
- The Best Lawyers in America, 2018-2023
- Florida Super Lawyers, 2017-2018, 2020-2022
- Tampa Bay Business Journal, BusinessWoman of the Year Honoree, 2023
- Excellence Award, (CREW) Tampa Bay Sales Transactions, 2017
Publications & Presentations
Events:
Private Practitioners Panel
Fifth Annual Environmental and Land Use Law Conference|April 2023
Land Development News Update, Publications:
What's Developing | Winter 2023
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update|March 2023
Land Development News Update, Publications:
Hillsborough County Proposes Significant Updates to Comprehensive Plan
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update|October 2022
Land Development News Update, Publications:
What's Developing | Summer 2022
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update|September 2022
Government Affairs News Update, Land Development News Update, Publications:
Hillsborough County Proposes Significant Updates to Comprehensive Plan
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update|July 2022
Events:
Best Practices in Planned Communities Design, Implementation & Financing
Stearns Weaver Miller/Kutak Rock Webinar|June 2022
Events:
Fourth Annual HCBA Environmental and Land Use Law Conference
Hillsborough County Bar Association|May 2022
Land Development News Update, Publications:
Spring Brings an End to Freezing Temperatures— and an Opportunity to Extend Your Development Permits
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update|April 2022
Newsroom
In the Media:
Snug Harbor's Acquisition Caps Turnaround for Prime Waterfront Development Site
CoStar|April 2023
In the Media:
Business Woman of the Year 2023
Tampa Bay Business Journal|March 2023
Firm Announcements:
Elise Batsel Recognized As a 2023 Tampa Bay Business Journal, BusinessWoman of the Year Honoree
January 2023
In the Media:
CREW Tampa Bay Spotlight - Stearns Weaver Miller
CREW Tampa Bay|January 2023
In the Media:
Mixed-use development inches closer to reality on 39 acres near Gandy Boulevard
Tampa Bay Business Journal|December 2021
Firm Announcements:
Elise Batsel Elected As President-Elect of CREW Tampa Bay
November 2021
Firm Announcements:
Stearns Weaver Miller Lawyers Recognized in 2021 Florida Super Lawyers
June 2021
In the Media:
People to know in Law: Elise Batsel
Tampa Bay Business Journal|April 2021