Homebuilder adds master-planned communities to portfolio

Having grown up building homes for one of the region’s more prolific builders, John Neal now has a new mission: to build communities.


  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 6:09 p.m. June 25, 2020
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Courtesy. Tom Panaseny, left, vice president of land development at Neal Land & Neighborhoods, works with John Neal at North River Ranch.
Courtesy. Tom Panaseny, left, vice president of land development at Neal Land & Neighborhoods, works with John Neal at North River Ranch.
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Pat and John Neal are known as some of the more astute and shrewd land buyers on the west coast of Florida. Their multitude of deals, not just in price but also in market knowledge and understanding zoning nuances, are one of the reasons Neal Communities has survived five economic downturns over 50 years.  

'We started looking around and thought we could do a better job with this. We wanted to do something that wasn’t just another subdivision.' John Neal

 

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