Florida's new environmentalists: The real estate industry?

More and more often, those leading the charge for the state to become more environmentally friendly are the people who were once seen as villains.

By Louis Llovio
| 5:00 a.m. March 10, 2023
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Babcock Ranch is an 18,000-acre planned community of energy-efficient homes.

Commercial Real Estate

Since the first historians began writing about Florida, many in real estate have been cast as the environmental villains. Greedy landowners, unscrupulous developers, swindlers selling swampland. The list goes on.

If we’re honest with ourselves, that portrayal of the industry is not necessarily, nor always, a caricature. Stereotypes, after all, exist for a reason.