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The name of the company was changed on April 22, 1901, to the Georgia, Florida & Alabama Railway Company. The date of its organization was November 2, 1895. The carrier acquired by purchase from a syndicate on July 1, 1906, the property, rights, and franchises of The Carrabelle, Tallahassee and Georgia Railroad Company.
Leonard and Jack Rosen began their business career as street vendors in Baltimore. [4] They used the earnings of their original business and high interest loans advanced by Chicago financier, Jay Pritzker to set up a real estate development company selling yet-to-be developed plots of land in the northwest Florida Everglades to prospective homeowners from the Northeast and Midwest.
DEVELOPMENT OF FIXED PHYSICAL PROPERTY. The road owned by the Tampa & Gulf Coast on date of valuation had been acquired by it as indicated hereunder: By purchase from Tampa and Gulf Coast Railway: Lake Fern to Tarpon Springs May 19, 1913 13.56 Lake Villa to Port Richey May 19, 1913 7.01 By construction:
The property's 500 feet of water frontage — at one point the most available for sale in South Florida — made the multimillion-dollar property stand out, according to Realtor Michael Ivancevic.
Dow Inc. (NYSE:DOW) shares are trading higher on Monday. The company entered into a definitive agreement to sell a 40% equity stake in select U.S. Gulf Coast infrastructure assets to a fund ...
The railroad of Florida East Coast Railway Company, hereinafter referred to as the carrier, lies wholly within the State of Florida. It is a single-track standard-gauge railroad extending from Jacksonville on the north, in a general southerly direction down the east coast of Florida to Jewfish, and thence in a southwesterly direction across what are known as the Florida Keys, to Key West, a ...
The two would get into real estate development once again and buy over 3,000 vacant lots from Atlantic. It was part of a plan by Atlantic to get $200 million to sell off half of the 87,000 acres and 9 water processing plants it had, but this idea "never fully materialized," with Atlantic filing for bankruptcy protection in 2001.
On May 6, 1878, the date the property was sold to the Pensacola Railroad Company, the company owned 44.45 miles of railroad extending from Pensacola, Fla., to the Alabama-Florida State line, all of which had been acquired from The Alabama and Florida Rail Road Company, at foreclosure.