Take me to The Hut

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 11:00 a.m. July 31, 2015
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During the land boom that started in the 1950s, developers packed real estate investors nationwide into airplanes and bused them from the Fort Myers airport to Lehigh Acres, where they sold them quarter- and half-acre lots.

 

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