The vintage Florida way of life meets development.
| 4/1/2008
The Babcock Ranch in Charlotte and Lee counties was the largest purchase to date for Forever Florida, a program that buys environmentally sensitive land. Now, land clearing is underway for a mixed-used development by Kitson & Partners, which envisions nearly 20,000 homes and 6 million square feet of commercial and office space.
But how will this wildlife habitat work with new residents as neighbors? Trend’s Amy Keller toured the ranch that still demonstrates the old Florida way of life. Push the play button to watch the video below.
Remember the blob? Just over a year ago, Florida beaches were inundated by a smelly, irritating seaweed known as sargassum. Will the same thing happen in 2024?
The fourth-annual Construction Career Days event brought together more than 1,000 high school students from four counties to introduce them to the various career paths available across the construction industry.
Another mixed-use development may be coming to part of Palm Beach County’s Agricultural Reserve, one of the few swaths of relatively open land left in all of South Florida.
Orange County has started work on several transportation projects in a $100 million initiative. The progress comes on the heels of the county commission tabling the effort to get a transportation sales tax on the 2024 ballot.