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History of SpringHills
Retail, Industrial and Residential Development

 

  • 1999 -The original application was submitted by Canin Associates on behalf of the Thirty-Ninth Avenue Inc. and Haufler Properties, Inc. to the Alachua County Commission and Regional Planning Council.  The plan was to develop 701 acres north of the NW 39th Ave/I75 interchange and call it Spring Hills.
  • The Alachua County Commission approved this  plan. Thirty-Ninth Avenue and Hauflers, Inc. constructed most of Phase I over the past  6 years.

 

  • Thirty-ninth Avenue, Inc. and Hauflers, Inc. sold the SpringHills development to Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (PREIT).

 

  • In 2003 PREIT filed a Substantial Deviation Application for
    Development Approval that made substantive changes to the originally
     approved DRI.

 

  • The original 1999 plan was primarily  low-density residential,  with some industrial and retail space that included a buffer zone between it and existing residential neighborhoods.  It required no new road to carry traffic to and from Millhopper Road.  Surrounding neighborhoods, notified of this project, generally did not object to the original plan.   

 

  • In 2004 PREIT filed an application to amend the Alachua County Comprehensive Plan which would be required for the massive expansion of this project to be accepted.

 

 

  • The newly proposed expansion plan, however, is  unacceptable.  These changes are detailed on the next page.  We urge you to read them.