Eric Hartman Email & Phone Number

First Watch Home Office, Sarasota, FL

Eric leads Development for the First Watch brand, which includes Strategic Planning, Site Selection, Real Estate, Design and Construction, Facilities management and Property management.

Tampa, FL

Provide direction to SEVA Development Services LLC, a residential, commercial, and mixed use development company.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Residential, commercial, and mixed-use development company. Primary areas of focus: (1) forming and building key partnerships, in development, consulting, and business investing, and (2) positively contributing to communities through development.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Led real estate team for Bloomin’ Brands domestically. Led team responsible for site selection, letters of intent and lease negotiations for new development and relocations domestically. Also headed team responsible for site development management of the new development and relocation pipeline, including due diligence investigations, scheduling, management.

Tampa

Oversaw engineering staff at Bloomin’ Brands. Responsible for strategic development planning for all brands, domestically. Assumed responsibility for facilities team and domestic site selection team as well. Worked with finance to formulate test-and-learn methods to identify predicted versus actual returns for various development decisions. Hired research.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Managed engineering team, conducting planning, due diligence, plans review, permitting, and site development construction management for all BLMN development activities. Maintained steady focus on continuing to work on development of company’s engineering staff. Oversaw engineering and scheduling for multi-disciplined development projects domestically.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Held responsibilities including conducting engineering and management tasks to support aggressive new development strategy, opening over 650 restaurants during period of 2001 to 2007. Developed best practices over site engineering categories, including cost estimating, plan reviews, value engineering, and permitting submittals. Formed relationships and.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Project Manager, 1999-2001. Project Engineer, 1997-1999. Staff Engineer, 1996-1997. Assistant Engineer, 1995-1996. As project manager, directed site development of various commercial, industrial, environmental, and residential projects, primarily in Tampa Bay area. Representative projects included Cornerstone Plaza project in Tampa, Florida, serving as.