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MANATEE COUNTY — It took Tony Zanoni three months to find warehouse space for his growing kitchen installation business.He eventually found an 11,000-square-foot lot at the Sarasota-Bradenton Commerce Center on East 15th Street between Whitfield Avenue and Talevast Road in southern Manatee County.”We store cabinets and furniture that are worth a lot of money,” says Zanoni, president of Lakewood Ranch-based Kitchens Direct. “We needed something that we knew was safe.”Kitchens Direct is one of 20 companies currently occupying more than 575,000 square feet within the complex.Notably, more than half of the space, or 350,000 square feet, was leased in the…