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County Ordered to Protect More Species at Convention Center Site

ORLANDO-The South Florida Water Management District wants Orange County to invest a total $7.75 million for the purchase of at least 750 acres of wetlands from 200 individual landowners near the planned $750 million construction area. Owners are now expected to triple their asking price, brokers tell GlobeSt.com.

By Alex Finkelstein | Updated on April 20, 2001

ORLANDO-What was one of the best-kept land price secrets near the Orange County-Osceola County line is now out.

At least 200 individual land owners now know Orange County needs to buy a total 750 acres of their wetlands before it can break ground on a $750 million, one million-sf expansion of the Orange County Convention Center.

The South Florida Water Management District is ordering the county to spend about $7.75 million to buy the land so that neighboring endangered species such as the osprey and gopher tortoises will continue to have a survival home. That is state law.

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