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Lee and Collier county leaders breathed a sigh of relief as FEMA announced it would provide trailers as part of its Hurricane Ian disaster assistance.
The company began operations with 15 employees and sold 132 camping trailers in its first year. By 1971, the Jayco Family of Companies had entered the travel trailer market, producing 1,100 units in its debut year, followed by its expansion into the fifth-wheel trailer market in 1972. [8]
Fort Myers (or Ft. Myers) is a city in and the county seat [7] of Lee County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census , the population was 86,395; it was estimated to have grown to 95,949 in 2022, making it the 25th-most populous city in Florida. [ 5 ]
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 northwest Florida Everglades to prospective homeowners from the Northeast and Midwest.
Fleetwood became a public company in 1965, reporting annual sales of $18.5 million. [2] The company became part of the Fortune 500 in 1973, remaining there for nearly three decades. [3] By 1989, Fleetwood RVs sales reached the one billion dollar milestone; five years later, it hit the same milestone in its sales of manufactured homes. [3]
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FEMA trailers serve a similar function to the "earthquake shacks" erected to provide interim housing after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. [4]: 55 [5] [6] FEMA trailers were used to house thousands of people in South Florida displaced by Hurricane Andrew in August 1992, some for as long as two and a half years. [7]
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