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Lehigh Acres

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Lehigh Acres is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lee County, Florida, United States. The US Census Bureau estimates the CDP's population at 67,867 as of 2006. The community is a rapidly growing, expansive, pre-platted subdivision of approximately 61,000 acres (250 km²). Lehigh Acres is a part of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated 2006 population of 571,344.

Lehigh Acres was the first post-World War II Florida retirement community to be built, and now 40 years later it is still growing. Lehigh Acres got its start in the mid 1950s when Chicago businessman Lee Ratner needed a tax shelter. Ratner joined with Gerald H. Gould, a Florida advertising executive, Manuel Riskin, a Chicago CPA, and Edward Shapiro, a former Chicagoan who was in the real estate business in California, and began land sales at Lehigh Acres.

Gerald Gould was the president of the corporation that developed Lehigh Acres which began in business in 1954. He remained as president until the company was sold in 1972. The boundaries of Lehigh Acres have stretched to cover 61,000 acres (250 km²) and the pasture land where Ratner's cattle roamed has been divided into some 152,000 quarter acre (1,000 m²) and half-acre (2,000 m²) lots for housing, along over a thousand miles of roads. Strips of land along major thoroughfares, such as Homestead Road And Lee Boulevard, were set aside for commerce.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehigh_Acres,_Florida
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Coordinates:   26°36'1"N   81°39'29"W

Comments

  • El Capitan (guest)
    This place is still quiet and tranquil. There are no hoes here
  • gsokolow (guest)
    I hope you meant no "homes"
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