Marco Island Development, Deltona Corporation Permit
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 266
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 386
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Austin J. Bell, Kaitlin Romey, and the Marco Island Historical Society
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1467129887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere are few places that have undergone a more radical transformation during the past half-century than Marco Island, Florida. Once a pristine tropical paradise with only a few hundred residents, Marco Island is now one of America's most popular island destinations. With a permanent population nearing 20,000--a figure that virtually doubles between the months of January and March--its modern state is largely attributable to the ambitious vision of Florida's "Famous Mackle Brothers." The Mackles, founders of the Deltona Corporation, literally reshaped the island in keeping with their long-term masterplan, capitalizing on the unique history, community pride, and undeniable natural splendor that continue to make it so alluring.
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Total Pages: 158
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jason Vuic
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2021-05-11
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1469663163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlorida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called "installment land sales industry" hawked billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a month, working-class pensioners could buy a piece of the Florida dream: a graded home site that would be waiting for them in a planned community when they were ready to build. The result was Cape Coral, Port St. Lucie, Deltona, Port Charlotte, Palm Coast, and Spring Hill, among many others—sprawling communities with no downtowns, little industry, and millions of residential lots. In The Swamp Peddlers, Jason Vuic tells the raucous tale of the sale of residential lots in postwar Florida. Initially selling cheap homes to retirees with disposable income, by the mid-1950s developers realized that they could make more money selling parcels of land on installment to their customers. These "swamp peddlers" completely transformed the landscape and demographics of Florida, devastating the state environmentally by felling forests, draining wetlands, digging canals, and chopping up at least one million acres into grid-like subdivisions crisscrossed by thousands of miles of roads. Generations of northerners moved to Florida cheaply, but at a huge price: high-pressure sales tactics begat fraud; poor urban planning begat sprawl; poorly-regulated development begat environmental destruction, culminating in the perfect storm of the 21st-century subprime mortgage crisis.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Conservation and Natural Resources Subcommittee
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 1720
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 688
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Civil Works Directorate
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 124
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