School board and developer to swap land

LAKEWOOD RANCH — The Manatee County School Board and Lakewood Ranch developer Schroeder-Manatee Ranch Inc. will move forward with a land swap deal in east Manatee County, according to an article in the East County Observer, sister paper of the Business Observer. 

The School Board approved a trade of about 145 acres it owns on State Road 64 with a minimum of 120 acres in the northeast quadrant of Lakewood Ranch. An 80-acre high school would be constructed on the site.