Prominent master-planned community town doubles solar capacity

FPL will use more than 700,000 solar panels to power Babcock Ranch.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 6:36 p.m. November 15, 2019
File. Babcock Ranch developer Syd Kitson says the project has the markings of a true town.
File. Babcock Ranch developer Syd Kitson says the project has the markings of a true town.
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Syd Kitson, the developer behind one of the most ambitious and biggest master-planned communities in Florida, Babcock Ranch, has often spoken about the importance of a sense of place in Florida housing developments. “Florida is full of gated and golf course communities, but we are different,” he says. “We are a town.”

 

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