{"id":51691,"date":"2024-11-07T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T23:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=51691"},"modified":"2024-11-07T18:08:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T23:08:12","slug":"lakeland-auto-group-sells-a-pair-of-tampa-car-dealerships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/11\/07\/lakeland-auto-group-sells-a-pair-of-tampa-car-dealerships\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland Auto Group sells a pair of Tampa car dealerships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Qvale Auto Group in Lakeland recently sold two of its dealerships in the Tampa region, one of several downsizing shifts in the last several years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"665858\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #665858;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"788\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/BRVW-1143-QvaleFamiily_rUlhngJ_t1100-1024x788.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51692 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/BRVW-1143-QvaleFamiily_rUlhngJ_t1100-1024x788.webp 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/BRVW-1143-QvaleFamiily_rUlhngJ_t1100-300x231.webp 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/BRVW-1143-QvaleFamiily_rUlhngJ_t1100-768x591.webp 768w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/BRVW-1143-QvaleFamiily_rUlhngJ_t1100-jpg.webp 1100w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Qvale family of the Qvale Auto Group is based in Lakeland.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Audi Lakeland and Volkswagen Brandon were recently sold to Atlantic Coastal Automotive for an undisclosed amount.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The transaction was handled by The Presidio Group, a banking firm headquartered in Denver with $18.5 billion in transactions in its portfolio, according to a statement. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presidio has worked with Qvale to negotiate the sale of eight other dealerships in Florida and California since 2021, the release adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe team at Presidio provides the best guidance in the industry, bar none, to dealers looking to buy or sell dealerships,\u201d Founder Bruce Qvale says in a released statement. \u201cThey helped me find a great buyer in Atlantic Coast for these Florida stores. After four successful transactions involving the sale of 10 dealerships, I wouldn\u2019t turn to anyone but Presidio for advice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Qvale Auto Group, founded in 1947, continues to operate Alfa Romeo and Maserati stores in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Qvale Auto Group in Lakeland recently sold two of its dealerships in the Tampa region, one of several downsizing shifts in the last several years.&nbsp; Audi Lakeland and Volkswagen&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNFwvMTFcL0JSVlctMTE0My1RdmFsZUZhbWlpbHlfclVsaG5nSl90MTEwMC1qcGcud2VicD9maXQ9MTAyNCUyQzc4OCZzc2w9MSIsInR4dCI6Ikxha2VsYW5kIEF1dG8gR3JvdXAgc2VsbHMgYSBwYWlyIG9mIFRhbXBhIGNhciBkZWFsZXJzaGlwcyIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiaGlnaHdheSIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.D6jxZx8t4gRB6o-rwCwIQATQcLnAzyzfIA_bOX4xUTYMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":51692,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/BRVW-1143-QvaleFamiily_rUlhngJ_t1100-jpg.webp","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[10280],"class_list":["post-51691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-lakeland-auto-group-sells-a-pair-of-tampa-car-dealerships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51693,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51691\/revisions\/51693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}