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Lehigh Acres Florida is a small community nestled on the east side of Lee County Florida. Initially Lehigh Acres Florida was developed as a retirement community, in recent years it has boomed with its home construction and ever increasing population.

*Lehigh Acres got its start in the mid 1950s when Chicago businessman Lee Ratner needed a tax shelter. He had sold his pest control business, and he faced the possibility of losing most of his earnings to the high capital gains tax of that era. Ratner heard that cattle was a good investment for people in his predicament, and he bought 18,000 acres (73 km²) of land in eastern Lee County and named it the Lucky Lee Ranch. After ranching for a while, and despite having no prior development experience, Ratner joined with Gerald H. Gould, a Florida advertising executive, Manuel Riskin, a Chicago CPA, and Edward Shapiro, a former Chicagoan who was in the real estate business in California, and began land sales at Lehigh Acres.

Gerald Gould was the president of the corporation that developed Lehigh Acres which began in business in 1954. He remained as president until the company was sold in 1972.

Since the days of Lucky Lee, the boundaries of Lehigh Acres have stretched to cover 61,000 acres (250 km2) and the pasture land where Ratner's cattle roamed has been divided into some 152,000 quarter acre (1,000 m²) and half-acre (2,000 m²) lots for housing, along over a thousand miles of roads. Strips of land along major thoroughfares, such as Homestead Road And Lee Boulevard, were set aside for commerce. In 1997, nearly 90% of Lehigh Acres' lots remained vacant.

In 1992, Lee County, with the cooperation of a new developer, declared Lehigh Acres to be blighted, which authorized its Community Redevelopment Agency to take steps towards improving infrastructure and planning elements neglected by the original developer.

Lehigh Acres Live is a community website which allows it’s member to join a forum, ask questions, disseminate important information and just have plain ole fun. Because of the great residents of Lehigh Acres, Lehigh Acres Live has grown into very successful website.

Lehigh Acres Live had been designated the Official Lehigh Acres Weed and Seed program from November 2008 to November 2009. The staff from the Lehigh Acres Live Corporation played a major role in working with the Media Relations Committee; our combined efforts resulted in the current official Lehigh Acres Weed and Seed website. It can be viewed at www.LehighAcresWeedandSeed.com.

*ref: www.wikipedia.com


 

Lehigh Acres Weed and Seed Website

Nearly a year ago, the Lehigh Acres Weed and Seed Steering committee contacted the staff of Lehigh Acres Live and asked us to be their voice on the Internet. In support of their efforts, we agreed and a close working partnership was born.


The Lehigh Acres Weed and Seed project has gained a strong foothold in Lehigh Acres and is well onto a very successful program.

 

Now that the Weed and Seed project is well under way it is time they project their goals and successes on their own website. The staff from Lehigh Acres Live has agreed to assist in this next step. We have been working with the steering committee and has completed the new official site, which ultimately will be run and operated by the Media Relations committee.

 

This new website will provide you with much of the same information Lehigh Acres Live has given you for the past year, but they have decided to provide you with more information via an electronic newsletter/notification process. The opt in/opt out option on the new website will provide you with:

 

  • Monthly Newsletters from the Weed and Seed Media Relations Committee
  • E-Watch Notification:  This special notification will be used for extremely important or critical information affecting our community.
  • Upcoming Events
  • Upcoming Youth Events

 

The Lehigh Acres Weed and Seed has gone live as announced in the News Star article. You can view the new website at www.LehighAcresWeedandSeed.com.

 

Make sure you go to the “Newsletter” page and sign up for the electronic newsletters while you are there.

 

The website is still growing, and each committee/subcommittee will be responsible for posting their documents, photos and specific information about their committees. So check back there often.

 

Thank you for your support of Lehigh Acres Live and the Lehigh Acres Weed and Seed Project.

 


 

Location within Lee County in the state of Florida
Coordinates: 26°36′30″N 81°38′21″W / 26.60833, -81.63917
Country  United States
State  Florida
County  Lee
Settled 1954
Government
 - Type Unincorporated community
Area [1]
 - CDP 95.98 sq mi (248.6 km²)
 - Land 94.89 sq mi (245.8 km²)
 - Water 1.09 sq mi (2.8 km²)  1.14%
Elevation 20 ft (6 m)
Population (2006)[2]
 - CDP 67,873
 - Metro 571,344
  Census Bureau Estimate
Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
 - Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP codes 33900-33999
Area code(s) 239
FIPS code 12-39925[3]
GNIS feature ID 0285447[4]



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