Event Details
Thursday, Aug 16, 2018
Preservation Lunch and Learn
Time: 12:00 pm til 1:00 pm
Location: Florida Trust for Historic Preservation
Description: In the 1960s the Florida land boom was on. In places like Cape Coral and Collier County, near Naples, the Gulf American Land Corporation aggressively sold drained-and sometimes undrained-plots of South Florida swamp as the landscape of the Florida dream. The vision of Golden Gate Estates as a thriving metropolis of half a million people never came to pass, but the actions of Gulf American reshaped both the nature of real estate development in the state and became one of the largest environmental restorations in Florida's history. This presentation, by Tim Parsons, Ph.D., is the story of Golden Gate Estates, and how Gulf American sold the dream of a Floridian paradise by the gallon and the economic and ecological consequences that followed: from wetland to failed development and back again.
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FPAN is posting this event as a courtesy, we will neither be hosting nor attending this event.
