Dog Island Article

[2bohemians]

Came across this article yesterday .... just thought we would share ....

DOG ISLAND:
Island Off Panhandle -- Can Students Develop It? On this narrow spit of land in the Gulf of Mexico, there is no Publix and no paved roads. So when an Atlanta-based developer handed Indiana University five Gulf-front lots to develop, some of the folks who live here -- about 17 or so -- couldn't help but scratch their heads . . . or chuckle. The donation is intended to give students hands-on experience in developing and marketing raw land. But it will force them to first answer a more fundamental question: Can homes and water co-exist in a place where the water seems intent on taking over? "You might be able to build" some houses, said Joseph F. Donoghue, an FSU geology professor who knows the island. "But you'd have to build them fast and sell them fast." [Source: Orlando Sentinel]

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[rapunzel]

A floating yurt, perhaps?

 

[Pirate]

Build a house fast on Dog Island??

 

[DuneLaker]

Almost as crazy as building on Santa Rosa Island (eastern end renamed Okaloosa Island).

 

[John R]

as crazy as building on our dune line...

 

[TreeFrog]

There's a reason why they call them "barrier islands".

 

[Mermaid]

IU's article: http://www.kelley.iu.edu/bcres/ Hoosiers have a great affinity for Florida and the Kelley School of Business is formidable, so I don't doubt that it will turn out well and that it will be an invaluable learning/life experience for the graduate students involved. How it all happens (given the piece of land they have to work with) and what the end product will be, will be interesting to watch.

 

[SHELLY]

Came across this article yesterday .... just thought we would share ....

DOG ISLAND:
Island Off Panhandle -- Can Students Develop It? On this narrow spit of land in the Gulf of Mexico, there is no Publix and no paved roads. So when an Atlanta-based developer handed Indiana University five Gulf-front lots to develop, some of the folks who live here -- about 17 or so -- couldn't help but scratch their heads . . . or chuckle. The donation is intended to give students hands-on experience in developing and marketing raw land. But it will force them to first answer a more fundamental question: Can homes and water co-exist in a place where the water seems intent on taking over? "You might be able to build" some houses, said Joseph F. Donoghue, an FSU geology professor who knows the island. "But you'd have to build them fast and sell them fast." [Source: Orlando Sentinel]

Read the full article by clicking here

Wouldn't it be just great if the students told the University, "We're done! We think it's just beautiful the way it is...it doesn't need to be 'developed' any more."

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[Mermaid]

Wouldn't it be just great if the students told the University, "We're done! We think it's just beautiful the way it is...it doesn't need to be 'developed' any more."

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Never say never. It IS a difficult piece of land to develop and market but maybe that's part of the education.

 

[SHELLY]

Never say never. It IS a difficult piece of land to develop and market but maybe that's part of the education.

....or maybe that's what Mother Nature had in mind as to how it is supposed to remain.

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