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Corporate Barter Company Adds Square Footage, Jobs At Fort Lauderdale Office

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A corporate barter company will hire as many as 75 additional employees in South Florida as it increases its presence in Fort Lauderdale.

Greenwich, Connecticut-headquartered Icon International currently employs 54 people at its 15,369-square-foot office on the third floor of the Plaza at Las Olas at 301 East Las Olas Blvd. The company will expand into an 8,220-square-foot space on the eighth floor this summer, stated Serena Coons, Icon’s project manager in Fort Lauderdale.

Once the new jobs are filled, Icon’s Fort Lauderdale operation will have 129 employees.

Icon’s local office houses the company’s media teams (digital, national, and local), accounting team, and sales team.

Founded 35 years ago, Icon International specializes in corporate barter, a sector in which companies exchange undervalued or surplus inventory, capital goods, real estate, or “other assets that aren’t performing or providing ROI [return on investment],” according to the company’s website.

The Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to attracting companies to Broward County, has been courting Icon International to open an office in Broward since 2019, said Maggie Gunther, GFLA’s VP of marketing and communications.

Icon International initially opened a satellite office in the Cypress Center at 6600 N. Andrews Ave. in May 2019, when it was still a subsidiary of New York-based Omnicom Group. In June 2021, Omnicom divested itself of Icon International.
Source:  SFBJ

Medical Air Transport Company Moves HQ To Broward

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After recently moving its worldwide headquarters to Fort Lauderdale from outh Lake, Texas, medical air transportation company MASA Global has acquired an office building in Plantation for $12.85 million.

Cornerstone Condominium Investors, managed by Stacey Vogel, sold the 61,362-square-foot office building at 1250 S. Pine Island Road to MASA Property Management, an affiliate of MASA Global. (MASA stands for Medical Air Services Association.) The buyer received a $10.5 million mortgage from Valley National Bank.

The price equated to $209 a square foot.

The office building was constructed on the 2.1-acre site in 2008. It’s just north of busy Interstate 595.

MASA Global’s interest in Broward County was revealed in April 2017, when the Business Journal wrote that the company – under the name “Project Bogey” – filed a job growth incentive application to open an office in Fort Lauderdale. At the time, its headquarters were in South Lake, Texas.

State records show that, in August 2017, MASA Global was approved for up to $210,000 in Qualified Target Industry (QTI) incentives from the state and local governments, should it meet the goal of creating 35 jobs in Broward with an average wage of $71,789. Those jobs must be maintained through 2022.

Maggie Gunther, spokesperson for the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance, which helped MASA Global reach the QTI deal, said the project was approved for Fort Lauderdale and no incentives have been paid out to date.

On its website, MASA Global’s worldwide headquarters is now listed as 101 N.E. Third Ave., Suite 1600 in Fort Lauderdale. It still has a membership office in South Lake, Texas. The company has over 1 million members worldwide who depend on it to fly them to medical centers for emergency care. Many of its satellite offices are in Latin America and the Caribbean, which are easily reachable through South Florida airports.

 

Source:  SFBJ