The sellers were property trustees Salo Wagenberg, Mauricio Gluck and Geza Baumohl.

The VA says in a prepared statement it will use the land to build a 120,000-plot national cemetery at an estimated construction cost of $23 million to serve a portion of South Florida's nearly 438,000 veterans.

The site is west of U.S. 441 and State Road 7, near Boca Raton, FL.The VA plans to begin burials there in two years, although the cemetery will not yet be completed, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Principi says in the statement.

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