Overview
Kevin Reali represents national and local developers and property owners before local, state, and federal governments on land development issues and counsels those clients on transactional real estate matters for multi-family commercial, industrial, hotel, master planned and mixed-use projects. Kevin has worked on numerous transformative projects in the Tampa Bay region and has strong roots in the St. Petersburg community.
Kevin previously served in the U.S. Navy as a Nuclear Surface Warfare Officer after studying Mechanical Engineering.
Areas of Concentration
Land Development
- Community development and special districts
- Comprehensive planning and plan amendments
- Concurrency for schools, transportation, and infrastructure
- Development agreements – between private parties and with public, government entities
- Growth management, land use and zoning law – permitting, compliance, enforcement and litigation
- Graywater density bonuses
- Land development, short and long-term strategic planning and asset positioning
- Local government permitting – variances, special exceptions, code enforcement, and permitting
Real Estate
- Real estate acquisition, dispositions, leasing and financing transactions
Government & Administrative
- Administrative law, permitting, licensing, rulemaking and litigation
Representative Experience
- Representing real estate developer in the first new major development to be entitled in the City of St. Pete Beach in over a decade. The development includes a mixed-use project consisting of 243 multi-family residential units, a waterfront restaurant (with public boat slips and outdoor dining options), a 3,959 square foot co-working facility, 8,264 square feet of retail and significant public amenities. The project will provide an east-end redevelopment anchor project which will help revitalize the businesses along Corey Avenue and redefine the vista as visitors enter the City from the Corey Causeway.
- Representing a full-service investment and development firm in obtaining a variety of land use approvals for a new mixed-use development located along the Gandy causeway (a key corridor connecting the City of Tampa to the City of St. Petersburg). The waterfront development includes a mix of multi-family, townhome and commercial uses including 376 units, a dry storage marina with 245 slips, retail, and 225 accessory wet slips. This project brings vibrant commercial development to an area in need of dry storage, retail and restaurants that has otherwise sat vacant for over a decade.
- Representing the leading nonprofit health care provider in the Tampa Bay and West-Central Florida Regions in obtaining all development entitlements for a 773,582 sq. ft. medical facility, including a regional hospital, ambulatory care center and associated medical offices. The project also includes a commercial outparcel. It is the first major project in northeast Plant City, an area that is envisioned by the NE Master Plan as an important commercial activity center. The hospital will be a major employer for Plant City, attracting highly-skilled and educated workers to the area.
- Representing one of the largest home furnishing and accent retailers in Florida in the development of a warehousing, distribution and regional headquarters, including a regional showroom, for their central Florida operations in Plant City. This project will transform the city into a manufacturing and distribution powerhouse.
- Representing a national real estate investment trust (REIT) that focuses on the acquisition, selective development, redevelopment and management of multifamily homes, in the infill redevelopment of an 18.5 acre parcel to a mixed-use waterfront and retail project, including over 650 multi-family residential units, a waterfront restaurant and public boardwalk amenities. It is the first mixed use residential/commercial development to break ground in a primarily industrial area and to begin the transition envisioned by the Tampa Comprehensive Plan to create a new gateway into the Tampa Bay area.
Professional & Community Involvement
- St. Petersburg Development Review Commission, 2023-Present
- St.Petersburg Chamber of Commerce, 2020-Present
- Housing, Land Use & Development Committee, 2020-Present
- Public Policy Council, 2020-Present
- Former Head Sailing Coach, Eckerd College
Publications & Presentations
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:
What's Developing | Fall 2021
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update|September 2021
Land Development News Update, Publications:
Hillsborough County Studying Comprehensive Plan Updates to Facilitate Affordable Housing
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update|July 2021
COVID News Update, Government & Administrative News Update, Government Affairs News Update, Land Development News Update, Publications:
COVID Legal Compass | Edition 25
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update|March 2021
COVID News Update, Government & Administrative News Update, Government Affairs News Update, Land Development News Update, Publications:
COVID Legal Compass | Edition 24
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update |January 2021
COVID News Update, Government & Administrative News Update, Government Affairs News Update, Land Development News Update, Publications:
COVID Legal Compass | Edition 23
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update |December 2020
Land Development News Update, Publications:
City of Tampa Holds Important Workshop on Changes in Land Use and Development Policies
Stearns Weaver Miller News Update|November 2020
Newsroom
Firm Announcements:
Land Development and Real Estate Shareholder Elise Batsel and Attorney Kevin Reali Join Stearns Weaver Miller
May 2019