"It’s just me, and I’m not infinitely wealthy."
Spencer Fletcher grew up a crop-duster pilot's son in LaBelle, a small farming town between Fort Myers and Lake Okeechobee, and became a pilot himself flying big P-8s out of Naval Air Station Jacksonville.
He's now 33, newly retired from the Navy, and already embarked on a new mission. He's trying to save a collection of tiny bungalows, about 100 years old, in a part of Jacksonville cut off by interstate highways from the gentrification going on in the nearby neighborhoods of Riverside and Brooklyn.
They're in the historically Black neighborhood of West Lewisville, just north of Edison Avenue, which parallels I-10 a block away: 24 bungalows, each with a distance of just a few feet between them.
Read more at the Florida Times-Union