Harvey & Thomas Orthodontics paid $710,00 for a 1-acre site at the Encounter development on Ala. 181 and Ala. 104 in Fairhope, according to Herrington Realty, which represented the seller. Nathan Handmacher of Zarzour Companies represented the buyers who plan to have a new office built on the property.

The Encounter development is a 13-lot commercial project on 35 acres. The property was named Encounter as some of the scenes from the 1970s movie, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” were filmed at an existing house on the northwest corner of the land.

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