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4 party entrepreneurs bought 'Beer Can Island' in Florida's Tampa Bay for $63,000. They're now selling it for $14 million.

• 'Beer Can Island' in Florida's Tampa Bay has been listed for sale at $14.2 million.
• Four friends purchased the island for $63,000 in 2017, The Times of London reported.
• They faced challenges convincing locals to get on board with their business plan.

A party venue with a difference in Florida's Tampa Bay is up for sale for $14.2 million.

Pine Key is an island in the middle of Tampa Bay, created by a state dredging project . It stretches some 69 acres, though only nine of these are above water, and boasts photogenic white beaches and surrounding blue waters.

It is commonly known as 'Beer Can Island' for the beer cans left behind by boaters but it has been transformed into one of Florida's party hot spots in the last seven years.

It was purchased by four entrepreneurial friends in 2017 for $63,650.

Russell Loomis, 46, who was one of the visionary quartet, said in an interview with The Times of London: "We've worked our tails off for the last six years on this project, and we're just ready to pass the torch to the next person."

According to his LinkedIn profile, Loomis has a business background in tech apps and running a debt relief company . In 2017, he built a floating tiki bar with friends from 258 plastic barrels. Finding a parking spot for their floating watering hole drew them to Pine Key.

"It's been an extremely fun time, but it's come with a lot of challenges. We didn't know when we bought it what we were getting into."

When they purchased the island, which already had a reputation as an unofficial party spot for locals, it lacked facilities or utilities, and its owners seemed quite glad to be rid of it.

But in the years since, after hauling in food and alcohol supplies, fixing up toilets, picnic tables, and a 120ft inflatable slide, the once defunct island has become a hub for boaters seeking to let their hair down.

"Running an island is different to running a regular business. There's a whole new learning curve," Loomis said.

"If you run a bar on the mainland, a truck shows up with all the inventory, and they come in and stock the shelves; with the island, you physically go shopping, load it into vans, off the vans into a boat, off the boat onto wherever it's going on the island.

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"The logistics are the most difficult," Loomis said.

Nonetheless, Loomis, Cole Weaver, James Wester, and John Gadd, having invested $5 million in the project , have turned the island into a hot spot for party-goers. They've even hosted weddings and music events, selling up to 3,000 concert tickets a time.

Others weren't so keen on the friends' business plan

While many enjoyed the friends' decision to pimp out the island, some were less sure.

"A core group of people thought it was their island and didn't understand that before we bought it, it was actually privately owned, and they were trespassers — the owner just didn't enforce it, so they felt entitled. We opened it up and created facilities and entertainment," Loomis said.

In an attempt to placate some locals, Weaver spent 100 days living on the island, building relationships with the boating community and reassuring them that they could still come to the island when they wished.

Weaver, an estate agent and architectural engineer, decided to keep most of the island open to anyone who wished to step ashore but sectioned off some of it for fee-paying "members only."

Local authorities also kicked up a fuss, saying that the island ought to be used as a nature reserve rather than for parties. Manatees reside near to the island, seeking comfort in the warm waters during the winter. Weaver, though, believes the only wildlife that lives on the island are seagulls and a rat that pestered him during his stay, per The Times.

The island will be auctioned off as an NFT for cryptocurrency, though cash offers will also be accepted, Fox reports. The auction began in early March and will end on April 1, 2024.

The highest bidder will be the new island owner. However, the unique property does come with specific problems. Last year, it was submerged under five feet of water during Hurricane Idalia, the Tampa Bay Times reported.

"We've had so much interest and many, many phone calls, from developers who want to build homes to people who want to continue doing what we're doing," Weaver told The Times.

"It was a fun time … it was a good time. It's not every day you wake up to your own island," he said.

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What’s the history of Tampa’s Beer Can Island? We found out.

• Paul Guzzo Times staff

TAMPA — It was a heck of a date, Walter Romeo recalled with a laugh, but it might have been better if he had known the truth about their destination.

A teenager at the time, Romeo, now 75, had a crush on a neighborhood girl. Of course he said yes when asked to go boating to a local island with her and another teenage couple.

He could’ve bragged of a link to their destination.

“My uncle owned it,” he said. “She might have been impressed. But I had no idea at the time.”

They’d gone to Pine Key — the popular boating spot best known as Beer Can Island.

It’s now for sale by owners, who have publicly sparred with Hillsborough County over what could be done on the island nestled between Apollo Beach and MacDill Air Force Base.

But past owners, eccentric and adventurous, kept a hands-off approach, so much so that few know their identities or the history of the island. Even families of past owners don’t know the full details.

Pine Key celebrates its 80th birthday this year. The Tampa Bay Times looked through land deeds and newspaper archives for the backstory of the beloved, yet mysterious, island.

The adventurer

The island was created by a state dredging project then put on sale in June 1944. The state originally gave it two names — Pine Key and Paradise Island.

In July 1944, Herman Romeo and business partner Louis Dron purchased it for $1,500.

Today, Pine Key is nine acres with another 60 acres of surrounding submerged land. That first sales deed says it measured two acres back then, plus the shoal area.

It’s unclear what the original owners intended to do with Pine Key. They owned Steamways Corp., a downtown Tampa business that built, repaired and cleaned boats from a headquarters along the Hillsborough River.

Perhaps, Romeo said, his uncle saw opportunity to expand the business to Pine Key or bought the island to develop it, like other waterfront property he owned.

Or maybe there was another financial reason. Perhaps they thought it had riches. The deed gave the men rights to petroleum, phosphate, minerals and metals discovered there. It’s unknown if any existed, but Dron was considered Tampa Bay’s treasure hunter.

From the 1920s through 1930s, Dron and a brother traveled the world in search of gold, an adventure that took them to French Guiana. There, according to one Tampa Tribune story, he “traveled deep into the jungles.”

“They paddled up broad rivers on canoes, and hacked their way, foot by foot, through the miasma of the forests. Trees and foliage were so thick they did not see the sun for days at a time,” reads another article, with yet another saying, “They encountered droves of blood sucking vampire bats, wild animals of every description and on one occasion were rescued from almost certain death by a band of escaped convicts.”

The brothers claimed to have found gold but alleged the French government refused to let them mine it. They also purportedly discovered a “tribe of white Indians,” according to news archives, that Dron believed were “remnants of a lost race.”

Dron once told a reporter that he was more comfortable in a jungle than a city.

Maybe that’s why they bought Pine Key, Romeo said.

Dron’s tales became such local legend that he was used in a print advertisement reminiscent of Dos Equis’ “Most Interesting Man In The World” commercials.

“Tampa boat builder chooses Lord Calvert,” reads the whiskey ad that includes a photograph of Dron holding a glass of the liquor proclaimed to be “the choice of men who insist on perfection.”

Herman Romeo was more conventional, choosing civic leadership, primarily through the Knights of Columbus, to adventure. “But he was a bragger,” Romeo said. “He had a real gift for gab and liked to say he owned an island but never told me more.”

Pine Key remained undeveloped under Dron and Herman Romeo.

Dron died in 1972. Nine years later, his estate sold their interest in the island to a man who only owned it for two months before selling to SanAnn Food Stores Inc., a company about which the Times could learn little.

The eccentric

In 1986, newspapers identify local attorney J. Danforth Browne as the island’s owner, along with Herman Romeo. The Times could not find a deed to back that claim, but county records say he was the trustee for the stockholders of Tampa Bay Marina, a company that shared an address and officers with SanAnn Food Stores.

That was the first time the press publicly named an owner of the island and identified it as a party spot. The articles were written because Browne, who flew fighter planes for the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II, told the U.S. Army to stop holding military drills there. The Army had used it in previous years without his permission, under the impression it was public land.

When a reporter mentioned that the island attracted hundreds of partying boaters on weekends, Browne replied that didn’t bother him as much as the military, which he feared would cause property damage.

“That really doesn’t surprise me,” said Candace Beistle, Browne’s daughter. “He was his own man with his own opinions.”

Browne, who died in 2002 when his single-engine Cessna crashed in Atlanta, was also a partier who “tucked away some money in his will for a big bash once he was gone,” the Tampa Bay Times wrote in the story about his death. “Specifically, he wanted a dancing bear.”

He didn’t get a real bear, said Beistle, 70. “It was a guy dressed up in a bear costume. JD was really one of a kind.”

She said her father rarely mentioned the island and never took her there.

“I was an adult and out of the loop,” she said. “I wish I knew more. It’s weird getting older and realizing that your trail of history is incomplete.”

Herman Romeo died in 1996 and, months later, SanAnn Food Stores Inc. acquired the remaining interest in the island from his estate. Seven years later, they sold Pine Key to Imperial Island LLC. According to county records, the company shares an address and officers with San Ann Food Stores Inc.

Imperial Island did not return calls, but the current owners say that company used Pine Key to drop sand from dredging operations at a marina in Apollo Beach.

The friends

The current owners — friends Cole Weaver, Russell Loomis, James Wester and John Gadd — purchased Pine Key in December 2017 for $63,500 and sought to become the first to make something of the island with no electricity, running water or roads. They added liquor sales, a food truck, concert stages for festivals, bathrooms, trash cans and walking paths, selling memberships with VIP privileges.

Previous owners never had bothered to have the island zoned for any use and the county now wants an official designation.

The friends wanted the zoning to allow for their business to continue. The county wants it to be a private nature preserve.

Saying they are ready to move on to other ventures, the owners put the island on the market on Feb. 15 for $14.2 million. Romeo’s uncle’s estate sold its portion for $5,000, according to the Hillsborough County Property Appraiser’s website.

“Maybe they should have held out,” Romeo laughed.

As for his date all those years ago?

“I never returned to the island,” he said, “but that one time was fun.”

Paul Guzzo is a culture reporter who covers all things interesting in Florida, from pro wrestling to the film industry. Reach him at [email protected].

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6th Annual Chad Day Memorial Fishing Tournament April 20 and 21 at Tarpon Bay Grill and Tiki Bar

SARASOTA - Earlier this month, Joann Day was recognized at the Tidewell Foundation Luncheon for having raised $50,000 the last three years for the Sarasota non-profit organization.

Somewhere, Chad Day was smiling.

While appreciating the attention, Joann Day wishes it wasn’t necessary, meaning Chad, her son, today would be alive and most likely pursuing his love of fishing.

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“That was his passion,” Joann said. “That’s what he always did. He always fished. And he was really good. Everybody was always amazed how he could catch fish.”

That’s what the 23-year-old Bradenton resident was doing on Jan. 21, 2014, when Joann got a call at work from her only child. Chad had suffered a seizure while fishing. He was taken to Manatee Memorial Hospital, where a CT scan revealed a brain tumor. Surgery at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa removed as much of the tumor as possible, but subsequent tests revealed it to be a glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of cancer which begins in the brain.

Though he fought valiantly, 24-year-old Chad Day died on May 16, 2015. To honor his son and his love of fishing, Joann Day started the Chad Day Fishing Tournament to benefit the Tidewell Foundation. In the last weeks of his life, Chad Day was cared for by Tidewell Hospice. The first tournament, in 2019, attracted nine boats and raised $3,000. But since then, it’s grown to where Joann last year generated $20,559.

The 6th Annual Chad Day Memorial Fishing Tournament/Charity Event will take place April 20 and 21 at The Tarpon Bay Grill and Tiki Bar, 7120 N. Tamiami Trail in Sarasota. It’s a catch-and-release tourney costing $320 per boat. The fee includes a captain’s bucket with a dry fit long-sleeve shirt for the captain, meals for all the anglers, and other items.

To register, or to donate, visit ChadDay.profishingtournaments.com .

Anglers will be fishing for snook, redfish and trout. First place in each category is $1,000, with $700 for second and $300 for third. The captains’ meeting will be Saturday, April 20 at 3 p.m. Captains must attend the meeting, and fishing can begin immediately after it. The last picture must be submitted by 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 21.

The charity event portion of the tournament will feature up to $10,000 in prizes. Last year Day had 40 raffle baskets, ranging in price from $200 to $500, and 10 silent auction items between $500 and $2,000. The charity event starts on Saturday at 11 a.m. with the selling of raffle tickets, which will be available until 6 p.m. Saturday. On Sunday, raffle tickets will go on sale starting at 11 a.m. Joann Day will draw the winners of the raffle baskets at 4 p.m. Sunday following the awards ceremony for the fishing tournament.

Anyone with questions may call Joann Day at (941) 228-5012. For those unable to attend the event, but who would like to donate, they may do so on the website, or they can mail a check to the Tidewell Foundation, ℅ Chad Day Fishing Tournament, PMB #230, 7282 55th Ave. E., Bradenton, 34203-8002.