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Until the mid-1950s,
Winter Springs was nothing more than several
square miles of scrub pine and palmettos.
That’s when developers Raymond Moss
and William Edgemon bought the land, subdivided
it and introduced the Village of North
Orlando.
At the start of the 1970’s,
a time of rampant growth throughout Central
Florida, the area contained one small
grocery store and roughly 300 homes straddling
State Road 434.
Tuscawilla, eastern Seminole
County’s first upscale golf course
community, changed all that. Also, a new
city charter was adopted in 1972, changing
the city’s name to Winter Springs.
Today, the city’s
growth rivals that of adjacent Oviedo.
In the past two decades, population has
increased 800 percent, to more than 31,600.
And more growth is on the way, through
both residential and commercial development.
Officials are now eyeing
more of the so-called Black Hammock, a
marshy wilderness north of the city, where
scattered homes are set on three- to five-acre
lots. Over the years, the city has annexed
several Black Hammock parcels and rezoned
them to allow new subdivisions, much to
the chagrin of many Black Hammock residents.
In any case, Winter Springs
is moving ahead on other fronts. For example,
a South Carolina-based developer has completed
Phase I of a 240-acre Town Center at the
corner of State Road 434 and Tuskawilla
Road. The complex will ultimately encompass
2,400 multifamily residential units, 99
single-family homes, 591,000 square feet
of retail space and 573,000 square feet
of office space along with apartments,
parks and public buildings.
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