The average price of $25,000 per acre or about 57 cents per sf compares with the larger Orlando area parks, 45 miles southeast of Leesburg, asking $100,000 per acre or $2.30 per sf. Business has been so brisk at the park, the city has only two one-acre parcels left.

"The park has been here all this time and it's only now being discovered," says Robert Johnson, the city's departing economic development manager. Neighboring Tavares, a city of 8,000 residents 15 miles south of Leesburg, lost no time in luring Johnson with a higher salary and more responsibilities as director of community services.

Leesburg city invested $743,886 to create the park and has sold 11 tracts valued at $413,920 or about $37,629 per tract. Some of the tracts are over an acre. Leesburg has pending contracts of $189,500. The city also collects property taxes and utility payments from the landowners. The park is off State Road 44 and Flatwood Road.