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GlobeSt.com UPDATE: Fight Brews Over $12 Mil, 22-Acre Parrot Jungle

VILLAGE OF PINECREST, FL-Residents of this affluent Miami bedroom community are not happy about the village's possible plans for the land now occupied by world-renowned Parrot Jungle, which plans to fold its wings and fly to a new location in downtown Miami.

By Pat Taylor | Updated on December 06, 2001

VILLAGE OF PINECREST, FL-A fight is brewing in this sleepy, affluent bedroom community over the future of a $12 million, 22-acre parcel of land that is currently home to more than 1,000 varieties of tropical plants and more than 1,200 rare birds and animals.

Parrot Jungle, a world-renowned bird sanctuary and tropical jungle theme park adjacent to Pinecrest, 20 minutes south of Miami, plans to relocate to Watson Island in Downtown Miami by early 2003.

The Village of Pinecrest wants to buy the property and turn it into a park. That concept is widely supported by Pinecrest’s 19,000 residents. But the details are in dispute.

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