A master planned industrial park in central South Florida is getting a start with the help of a little Love.
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Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores is underway with an $11M, 10k SF 24-hour truck stop that will include private showers, massive truck parking, a convenience store and an Arby's restaurant.
It's part of a 40-store US expansion by the Oklahoma fuel station operator, and it's the launch project of a planned 770-acre industrial campus in former sugar cane fields at the corner of US Highway 27 and State Road 78 in Moore Haven that's being spearheaded by A. Duda & Sons.
In an agreement with Glades County, Duda has donated 15 acres for easement and the installation of infrastructure that will open the land to some 1.5M SF of development.
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“The closer we get to being shovel-ready, the more deal flow we’re beginning to see,” says Glades County Economic Development Council executive director Tracy Whirls (center at a recent groundbreaking).
She says the group is actively pursuing four projects representing $141M in capital investment and 245 jobs with an average annual wage of $40k to $70k/year. The Love's store gives the county a head start with 40 jobs once it opens in early 2017. Cushman & Wakefield's Larry Kahn and Christopher Thomson have been tapped to market the project.
