Remembering Glen Cross

Glen Cross was the kind of man who was equally at ease negotiating a deal in a suit downtown as he was hopping into the driver's seat of a bulldozer.

The soft-spoken Tampa developer who loved racing cars in his spare time was killed in a car crash July 24 in North Carolina. He was 72.

With longtime business partner Hinks Shimberg, Cross is most famous for amassing 3,000 acres in southeastern Hillsborough County for a residential community that would eventually be called Fishhawk Ranch.