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Syd Kitson: The dreamer behind solar-powered community Babcock Ranch

"As a developer, you have impacts. It's our responsibility to mitigate those impacts and do it in a sustainable way." –Syd Kitson, Kitson & Partners


  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 5:00 a.m. May 9, 2024
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Syd Kitson, chairman and CEO of Kitson & Partners, which is developing Babcock Ranch began thinking about building a fully sustainable community while in college.x
Syd Kitson, chairman and CEO of Kitson & Partners, which is developing Babcock Ranch began thinking about building a fully sustainable community while in college.x
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There’s no easy way to define Syd Kitson. He’s a former professional football player. He’s an environmentalist. He’s a developer. He’s an entrepreneur.

But here’s the thing: Trying to find a term that will explain who he is the wrong way to think about the 65-year-old businessman.

 


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Louis Llovio

Louis Llovio is the deputy managing editor at the Business Observer. Before going to work at the Observer, the longtime business writer worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Maryland Daily Record and for the Baltimore Sun Media Group. He lives in Tampa.

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