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Planned Mixed-Use Project Slowly Erasing Leesburg's Rural Aura

LEESBURG, FL-Lake County landowner Crayton Pruitt convinced the city's planning commission to give the estimated $1 billion, 3,443-acre venture a first green light on his way to developing 350,000 sf of retail, a 400-acre industrial park and 2,750 multifamily and single-family units, 50 miles northwest of Downtown Orlando.

By Alex Finkelstein | Updated on April 10, 2001

LEESBURG, FL-This 100-year-old city’s small-town aura, 50 miles west of Downtown Orlando, is slowly vanishing as local property owners, national big-box developers and multiple restaurant chains continue transforming the rural landscape into an urban environment.

The newest $1 billion venture is being proposed by landowner Crayton Pruitt for his 3,443-acre ranch a slingshot away from the hamlet of Okahumpka, FL (Pop. 502), just outside the city limits of Leesburg, FL. (Pop. 16,911).

Pruitt envisions a mixed-use community that would comprise 350,000 sf of retail and a 400-acre industrial park surrounded by 2,750 multifamily and single-family units. The nine-year enterprise would break ground in 2004, conveniently after a new Florida Turnpike interchange is built and operating at County Road 470.

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