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Originally Posted by Kazmi
did the previous expansions (south of 466 and south off 466a) have 'development' names also? Does anyone remember? I've only known TV since the building had just started south of 466a and Brownwood was going up. Just curious.....
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That I don't know, it was before my time, I've only been here 4 years. The name "Southern Oaks" is from another developer's development plans for the area and has just hung with it. This is unlike the Wildwood Springs development which is now known as The Village of Fenney. Don't forget about the Landstone development south of 470 that was purchased last year by a Villages shell company "Buffalo Hide and Cattle". This has been rezoned for agricultural use for now but is an obvious logical long term expansion of The Villages.
The areas south of 466/466A were on the books a long time before they were actually developed and were all in the original developer's (Harold Schwartz) plans. CDDs 9 & 10 were established just a few months after his death so they had to have been in the planning stages for years prior to in order to acquire the land. Another example is the Fruitland park areas, the preserve are has according to county records been owned by the developer or a shell company since 1998 and is actually shown on a traffic management map dated 2005, both long before any developments were ever announced for that area.
The developer is good at what they are doing and have both vision and a long term plan.