Gomez and six other angry residents from rural Sundance Ranch Estates voiced their opposition Wednesday at a Polk County Commission meeting to a proposed $100 million rail and truck transfer center. CSX railroad plans to begin building the center early next year on 1,250 acres in South Winter Haven.
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CSX is expected to close on a deal with Winter Haven to buy 320 acres for $7 million by the end of the year. By 2010, CSX plans to have purchased an additional 930 acres from the city for about $16 million. The company plans to offer 3 million square feet of warehouse space, 1.5 million square feet of industrial sites and 500,000-square feet of office space. In all, when construction is completed by about 2020, the space available should be equivalent to about 25 Wal-Mart supercenters. -- The Lakeland Ledger
"CSX is expected to close on a deal with Winter Haven to buy 320 acres for $7 million by the end of the year." Why are they buying 320 acres if they want to be at 318...and under the DRI line?
