A changed landscape

  • By Kevin McQuaid
  • | 11:33 a.m. January 29, 2016
  • Manatee-Sarasota
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When Starwood Land Ventures and Vanguard Land Co. formed in the wreckage of the last decade's housing boom, each focused almost exclusively on buying distressed land at rock-bottom prices to sell to homebuilders at a profit.

 

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