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School days: demand for classrooms is fueling charter school growth in South Florida, and...

By Alcantara, Jaclyn
Publication: South Florida CEO
Date: Sunday, May 1 2005

Children are quite literally the future for commercial real estate brokerage firm Alliance Cos., which aims to make building schools 75 percent of its business within the next three to five years.

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The CEO of Coconut Grove-based Alliance, Robert Cambo, has teamed up with Fort Lauderdale-based charter school operator Charter Schools USA Inc. to develop charter schools--part of Alliance's plan to diversify its investments and lower its risk factor.

"We really decided after Sept. 11 [2001] that we wanted to shift and take, basic

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