GAI Consultants, Inc. and Ustler Development, Inc. hostead a barbecue for colleagues to mark construction beginning on the $30 million GAI Building in downtown Orlando.

Ustler Development Inc. has begun work on its planned $30 million, 105,000-square-foot office building in downtown Orlando — the only new privately developed office project under construction in downtown...read more +

GAI Consultants' Orlando office joined other companies to partner with Orlando District 4 Commissioner Patty Sheehan, and the Orlando Fire and Police Departments at Commissioner Sheehan’s 8th Annual “Wheels for Kids” Program. The program builds and donates bikes to children living in Orlando's Reeves Terrace Apartments. Each of the 95 children, ages 5 to 14, received a bike, helmet, bike lock, and chain.

GAI President and CEO Gary DeJidas, Vice President and Orlando Managing Officer Rick Cima, and Business Development Manager Tina Gonzalez helped distribute bikes as Santa Claus rode in on a fire truck, escorted by the Orlando Mounted Police.

Commissioner Sheehan's “Wheels for Kids” was started to ensure that children have safe, reliable ways to get to school after budget cuts stopped several bus routes that brought kids from Reeves Terrace to school. This annual commitment is growing stronger as the importance of education becomes even more important. GAI is proud to help develop the leaders of tomorrow, one bike at a time. For more pictures from the bike drop off, please visit Commissioner Sheehan’s Web page here.

GAI proudly partnered with City Commissioner Patty Sheehan and other businesses to distribute Thanksgiving turkeys at an Orlando public housing community. President Gary DeJidas and GAI-Orlando Managing Officer Rick Cima joined others in helping deliver frozen turkeys to each of the 180 families living in Reeves Terrace.

GAI, Baker Barrios Architects, and Urban Life Management Restaurants have been constant supporters of Commissioner Sheehan’s efforts to help her constituents living in public housing. Through their financial support, these participants are also responsible for ensuring Reeves Terrace’s children receive a new bicycle for Christmas through Commissioner Sheehan’s annual Wheels for Kids event.

In late November 2008, GAI Consultants, Inc. and Ustler Development, Inc. celebrated the unveiling and announcement of the GAI Building in downtown Orlando. A crowd of over 200, including the project team, GAI President and CEO Gary DeJidas, and local officials and clients, enjoyed an open-air gathering at the site of the new building.

Ground-breaking on the seven-story professional office building, designed by Baker Barrios Architects and being built by Brasfield & Gorrie, will take place in early 2009. The building will contain 105,000 rentable square feet of office and commercial space, as well as an integrated parking garage with more than 300 spaces.