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- Source: St. Petersburg Times
- Date: March 04, 2007
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- Bylines:
Michael Van Sickler ,
Matthew Waite
- Topics:
Transportation ,
Real Estate
- Data Types:
State Data ,
Mapping
- Description/Excerpt: Blue Head Ranch is flat, parched grassland split in two by a stretch of blacktop called U.S. 70.
But this dusty outpost could become one of Central Florida's hottest real estate commodities if a mammoth toll road wins approval by the state. Nearly all of Blue Head Ranch lies within a large swath where a $7-billion expressway could go.
The 62,000-acre ranch belongs to a company headed by J.D. Alexander, a powerful state senator with Florida royalty in his blood.
Alexander has been instrumental in pushing for the road by helping to form a lobbying group stocked with some of the most storied real estate dynasties in Florida. They, too, own thousands of acres along the toll road route.
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