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Writer:
Brenna
Smith
(863)
667-7010
Contact:
Dr.
Alice Murray
(863)
667-7014
LAKELAND,
FL (March 5, 2003) - There
are two more green and gold USF signs along Polk County’s roadways,
staking claim to offered land for a new, comprehensive USF Lakeland campus
site. Administrators, faculty and Land Acquisition Committee members
from the USF Lakeland campus toured two more prospective campus sites
yesterday. The sites, offered by Hacklake Forests of Ft. Meade and Old
Florida Plantation of Bartow, are two of the five prospective site offers
received during the campus’ recent request for proposals. A.J. Hackle of Hacklake Forests, accompanied by Ft. Meade Mayor Fitzhugh Sthreshley; Lauretta Sthreshley, Executive Director of the Historic Ft. Meade Chamber of Commerce; Bob Elliot, Vice-Mayor of Ft. Meade; and Al Minner, City Manager presented information to the USF Lakeland group at City Hall in Ft. Meade prior to the morning's tour of the site. Following the tour, committee members met to debrief, discussing their findings from the morning's visit.
The afternoon brought the presentation by Old Florida Plantation representatives at Bob Crawford Agricultural Center in Bartow. Following the presentation, the USF Lakeland group had the opportunity to tour the proposed site with Lou Roeder as their guide. A brief meeting of the Land Acquisition Committee followed the tour.
" We had a very exciting day today," stated Dr. Alice Murray, Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs at USF Lakeland. "We saw two very nice pieces of property land that re-affirm the fact that we will have a very difficult decision to make."
The USF Lakeland committee will tour prospective land offered by Clear Springs Development Corp., Tuesday, March 18th.
For more information on the USF Lakeland quest for a new, comprehensive
campus site, contact Dr. Alice Murray at (863) 667-7014. Also visit the
Land Acquisition Committee website.
The University of South Florida is ranked one of the top 100 Universities in the nation. As a Doctoral/Research extensive institution, the highest educational ranking available, USF Lakeland is dedicated to serving the citizens of Polk, Highlands, Hardee and eastern Hillsborough counties, in a regional setting. Established in 1988, the Lakeland campus is a distinctive locally available University with premier research and instructional status, providing a variety of complete undergraduate and graduate degrees, web-based courses, certificate programs and program partnerships with the Tampa campus.
For more information contact USF Lakeland at (863) 667-7000.
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