SCMB, Inc.

SCMB Inc. was founded by its acting President and Director, Daniel Hotte, in January of 1999. SCMB Inc. is a sister company to Echion USA Inc., which has been actively developing commercial real estate since 1978. As of January 2012, Michael Hotte has been acting as Vice President for SCMB Inc. and is responsible for the day-to-day company operations including the company’s involvement in Triple Net Lease Acquisitions. Michael Hotte is the third generation to enter into this family business, following in the footsteps of his father, Daniel Hotte, and grandfather, J. Rene Hotte.

Family History – Echion USA Inc.

Echion USA Inc. is a member of the Canadian-based Hotte family, which has been actively involved in commercial real estate development for over 45 years in Canada and Florida. Echion is the family's development arm in Florida.

Echion was founded in 1978 by J. Rene Hotte. Prior to this, during the period of 1960 to 1977, he was President of J. Rene Hotte, Inc. and Ste-Therese-En-Haut Realties, involved in the following projects.

• 600-acre residential community master plan development called Ste-Therese-En-Haut (located north of Montreal at the entrance of the Laurentians)
• Plaza Ste-Therese "shopping mall"
• Edmundston Shopping Mall, Edmundston, N.B.
• Loch Lomond Shopping Center, Saint John, N.B.
• Bathurst Shopping Mall, Bathurst, N.B.
• Newcastle Shopping Mall, Newcastle, N.B.
• Les Galeries Val-d'Or, Val-d'Or, Quebec
• Les Galeries Lac St. Jean, Alma, Quebec
• Fredericton Shopping Mall, Fredericton, N.B.
• Les Grandes Places, Rimouski, Quebec
• Grey County Mall Shopping Center, Owen Sound, Ontario
• Carrefour Frontenac Shopping Center, Thetford Mines, Quebec
• County Fair Mall Shopping Center, New Minas, Nova Scotia

Daniel Hotte became President of Echion USA, Inc. in 1985, overseeing and directing all operations of the company, joined in 1998 by John Hotte as Vice President and Legal Counsel.

From 1978 to the present, the following projects have been successfully completed by Ettoh Ltd. as the Limited Partner and Echion USA, Inc. as the General Partner.

• Winn Dixie Shopping Center (100,000 sf) Coral Springs
• Winn Dixie (100,000 sf) West Palm Beach
• First Nationwide Savings (12,000 sf) West Palm Beach
• Professional & Medical (30,000 sf) Sunrise
• Florida National Bank, State Farm and Southland Corporation (30,000 sf) Professional & Medical Coral Springs
• Sun Bank Centre, anchored by Sun Bank (30,000 sf) Coral Springs
• Great Western Bank Professional Building (30,000 sf) Weston Community
• Bank of America Building (3-story) Hollywood
• Walgreens Retail Center (34,000 sf) Hollywood
• Barnett Bank Building (30,000 sf) Tishman-Speyer Park of Commerce in the Community of Weston
• Port Royale Financial Center, anchored by NationsBank and Prudential Securities (52,000 sf) Ft. Lauderdale
• Eckerd Drug Store and McDonald’s Plaza (25,000 sf) Boca Raton
• Blockbuster Video and Boston Chicken (16,350 sf) Weston
• Silver Lakes Community, professional/medical/retail campus (60,000 sf) Pembroke Pines
• Eckerd Drug Store retail center (20,000 sf) Sunrise
• Medical/Banking/Restaurant campus, anchored by Citibank (30,000 sf) Plantation
• Blockbuster Plaza (10,000 sf) Coral Springs
• Eckerd and Blockbuster Plaza (23,000 sf) Port St. Lucie West
• A 27-acre parcel for the development of a 15-acre tract for Wal-Mart together with two outparcels for the development of a free-standing Walgreens store and a Mobil Oil full-service station in the City of Silver Lakes in Pembroke Pines, Florida.
• A four-acre parcel with a 20,000 sq. ft. office building and a free-standing Walgreens located in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
• A 15,000 sq. ft. free-standing Walgreens in Sebring, Florida.
• A 15,000 sq. ft. free-standing Walgreens together with a thirty-four thousand square foot retail center anchored by Save A Lot located in Avon Park, Florida.
• A 15,000 sq. ft. free-standing Walgreens together with a 5,000 sq. ft. First Union Bank facility located in Satellite Beach, Florida.
• A 15,000 sq. ft. bank/retail facility with Washington Mutual in Delray Beach, Florida
• 10,000 sf retail facility in Doral, Florida, next to Wal-Mart
• Free-standing Walgreens in Tallahassee, Florida
• Free-standing Walgreens in Daytona Beach, Florida
• Free-standing Walgreens in Sebring, Florida
• 45,000 sf retail center together with free-standing Walgreens and Applebee’s in Kissimmee, Florida
• Free-standing Walgreens in Quincy, Florida

S.C.M.B., Inc.

8890 W. Oakland Park Blvd.
Suite 201
Sunrise, FL 33351

Phone: 954.749.8990
Fax: 954.749.7148

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