You've Got A Great Project; Build It Someplace Else
10 April 2003 - 6:00am
Residents of Land O'Lakes question plans to put 1,000+ homes in their semirural neighborhood.
"Tampa's Beazer Homes is proposing to construct the Dupree Gardens development, a mixture of houses, townhouses and condominium units, on 571 acres between Ehren Cutoff and Hale Road in rural Pasco County, Florida. After about an hour of back and forth between residents and developers, resident Butch Winkler captured the mood with one statement. 'You've got a great project,' he told the Beazer folks. 'Build it someplace else.' The filled-to-capacity meeting room in the Land O'Lakes Community Center erupted with applause."
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Developers defend project
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The St. Petersburg Times, April 9, 2003
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It's all too easy for projects to claim that they will be successful places, and all too hard to tell ahead of time which ones actually will.
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