Florida’s ambitious Everglades restoration plan has been drastically scaled back, a victim of the economic recession. Originally slated to be a 187,000-acre, $1.75 billion deal when announced in June 2008, the deal has gone back to the drawing board on…
Charlie Crist
Billion-Dollar Everglades Sale Drastically Downsized
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US Sugar Approves Sale of 180,000 Acres in Everglades
Today U.S. Sugar announced that its board of directors had approved the sale/leaseback of 180,000 acres to the South Florida Water Management District for $1.34 billion ($7,444 per acre). The transaction ranks as one of the largest of 2008 and…
Tagged with: Broward County, Charlie Crist, Dade County, Everglades, Florida Everglades, Gov. Charlie Crist, Lake Okeechobee, Martin County, Palm Beach County, U.S. Sugar
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Florida Renegotiates Everglades Purchase
The $1.75 billion purchase by the State of Florida of 187,000 acres in the Everglades belonging to US Sugar has been renegotiated and substantially bettered. The state will no longer take title to the company’s high-tech mill, its citrus processing…
Tagged with: Charlie Crist, Everglades, Florida Everglades, Lake Okeechobee, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, The Everglades: River of Grass, U.S. Sugar
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