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BIG DEVELOPMENT PLANS AT SARASOTACHAIN OF ISLANDS TO BELINKED UPBy Bridges—(tingling InterestsBehind Project—MillionsTo Be SpentBig development project at Sarasota embracing an outlay of millions of dollars are contemplated, with John Ringling, already a large developer in the pretty town on Sarasotabay. at the head ox the syndicate ofcapitalist* which is said to have acquired a controlling interest in Longboat ano other island which it is proposed to connect with a series of bridges to afford ingress and egress between these islands, and also a bridge from the mainland that will; serve the chain of islands. The islands embraced in the proposed chain are Bird. Otter, St. Amanda's, Coonand Sarasota as well as Longboat.Dredges are busy making the fill on Mr. Ringling’s land west of the municipal pier, where it is said Mr. Ringling will construct a maginificent tourist hotel. It is from this pointreaching some fifteen hundred feet out into the bay that the bridge from the mainland to the island will have its starting point.Of course, all this development is not expected this year, but it is said to be embraced in a general plan which will call for expenditure of several million dollars.HOYT-FOSTtR CO.Our coupon books save jmIl-2tfc.D
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Bradentown Evening Herald
Bradentown, Florida, US
Mon, Apr 16, 1923
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