Hutch flips land…a thousand acres here, 880 acres there, 51 acres over yonder.
Hutch may be the biggest land baron in Alachua County…But the land Hutch flips sees very little by way of “value added” enhancement. Unless you happen to believe that saving land for land’s sake is a value added enhancement in its own right.
The above is from a piece I wrote for The Sun back in 2007. The occasion was the 20th anniversary of Alachua Conservation Trust, which Robert “Hutch” Hutchinson helped found and led for many years…