LAKE WALES, Fla. — Officials with Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales are relieved a proposed FDOT project to put a parkway near their land is moving further away.
This comes after crews with the department surveyed the area, along with hundreds of people writing emails and letters asking them to adjust the project’s location.
“As time goes along, when you have a big piece of property, you’re managing for open space, it becomes a target,” said David Price, president of Bok Tower Gardens…