EVOLVE Business and Professional Magazine August 2018 | Page 39

DAYTONA’S
OUTSKIRTS
I
REVS UP
by Charles Newbery
n 2004, Drs. Charles Duva and William Sawko moved their main north-south highway on the East Coast, and is a few blocks
businesses to an office they’d just built on the corner of LPGA from Interstate 4, the busiest cross-state artery in Florida.
and Williamson boulevards, but not without drawing scoffs.
“It is the best-looking interchange in the state,” Duva said.
The building was outside Daytona Beach and Ormond Beach The location makes it easy for clients to drive to DuvaSawko,
in an area with little more than a few city utilities, a municipal a growing emergency medical billing company they started in
stadium and a golf course. 1998. This encouraged them to put up a second building in their
“When I moved there, everybody said, ‘You are really
crazy,’” Duva said. But the former physicians shrugged them off,
questioning why it was a bad idea.
It wasn’t. The LPGA Corridor, as it is now widely known, has
Cornerstone Office Park on the 11.3 acres of land they had bought
in 2003. Today, the complex has 100-percent occupancy.
More businesses have moved in, transforming the corridor
into a bustling new hub for Daytona Beach. Intracoastal Bank,
emerged as one of the hottest developments in Volusia County, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management and Wells Fargo Advisors
if not Florida, and the easy access is just what lured Duva and have opened branches, and Stonewood Grill & Tavern and
Sawko in the first place. The corridor runs along Interstate 95, the Wendy’s have restaurants there. Tanger Factory Outlet Centers
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