Successful because the $78 million federal government undertaking is providing 1,067 jobs with about 25% of that number coming from the immediate Coleman area, 80 miles northwest of Downtown Orlando.

Successful also as those new employees begin pumping a so-far undetermined amount of fresh dollars into the local economy. The development will become the area's largest employer.

But the owner/developer of this 1,400-acre enterprise won't be found on the current membership roster of the National Association of Office and Industrial Parks. The owner/developer is the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, based in Washington, D.C.

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