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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Feb 5, 2011
Description:
This is north cape coral...in 2006 there were 7465 new house permits...in 2010 less than 200...matlacha pass and pine island sound reflect the setting sun...1995...60,000 residents...2010 over 165,000 residents...total build out- 375,000...Cape Coral is the second largest city (land mass) in Florida...Jacksonville is number 1...
Date Taken:
Feb 5, 2011
Place Taken:
Cape Coral Fl
Owner:
Wayne Nagy
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Category:
401, Florida Winter Flying
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Mike Purinton - Feb 06,2011
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When I was a kid back in the mid 50's my dad used to get flyers in the mail that <br />advertising ' Land in Florida 300.00 per lot ' We lived in California so they one heck of a <br />marketing program. Kind of like the US government, all promotion and no substance. <br />They showed people playing on the beach, but failed to mention the lack of roads and <br />most utilities. Later while flying for the airlines and flying over Florida I got the chance to <br />see what they had been selling. In the mid 70's they had mostly dirt roads and a house <br />every now and they, but for the most part empty tracts of land with dirt roads scratched <br />out. With the building boom of the 90's I started to see paved roads and houses, with <br />some developments do quite well, but most still looking about like this one today.
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Frank A. Carr - Feb 06,2011
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The Cape Coral saga is long and <br />somewhat variable <br />depending on who's telling it. The version I've heard most, <br />is that a couple of guys from <br />Baltimore tried selling lots to GI's returning from WWII. The <br />price of the lot was cheap, <br />but nowhere in the ads did they mention that you had to by <br />two for adequate width. <br />Over the years, some buyers came down (probably in the <br />winter) and decided to build. <br />Eventually, the word spread (likely about the climate, <br />certainly not about the facilities), <br />and sales picked up. The sellers began to think they could <br />do better as developers <br />rather than swindlers, and began to add infrastructure. <br />They either sold out and got rich <br />or kept selling and got rich. Either way, Cape Coral has <br />now grown. What Wayne is <br />showing is North Cape Coral where 'urban sprawl' has not <br />fully been established. I'll add a couple of pix <br />showing how the area around the <br />water has grown. The contrast is dramatic.<br /><br />
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Wayne Nagy - Feb 06,2011
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Thanks for showing the 'up' side, Frank! I was looking for pix from the air of the south and west cape...I live in Southeast Cape and LOVE it...for you Northerners...it definitley is a buyer's market...Speaking of the North...I grew up in Pittsburgh...not a good day...<br />ps...looking forward to flying with you...
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