{"id":47608,"date":"2021-03-02T22:57:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T03:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=47608"},"modified":"2021-03-02T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T03:58:08","slug":"babcock-ranch-developer-syd-kitson-wants-the-lee-county-civic-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/03\/babcock-ranch-developer-syd-kitson-wants-the-lee-county-civic-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Babcock Ranch developer Syd Kitson wants the Lee County Civic Center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"263\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/syd.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/syd.png 263w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/syd-237x300.png 237w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>March 5 at 1 pm the county commission will hear a proposal to end the 30-year lease with the civic center. If approved it will allow the Babcock Ranch developer Syd Kitson to lease the property and put a hotel and shopping where our kids have 4-H and the fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Babcock has thousands of acres now, but wants a foothold at the bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee County Commissioners need to stop interfering with business. They should protect this property like a park, because it\u2019s the last venue for stuff like this. The craft shows, gun shows, camping shows, the fair, rodeos, etc. will all be gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You need to speak up at this meeting and stop Kitson from taking our civic center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 5 at 1 pm the county commission will hear a proposal to end the 30-year lease with the civic center. If approved it will allow the Babcock Ranch developer&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}