Strategies:

• Expand and diversify the display gardens.
• Leverage the family’s reputation for stewardship as a key driver of land value.
• Establish opportunities for like-minded development partners, institutions, and businesses to locate on the property.
• By attracting businesses to the property, the family would set the stage to become a new urban center between Atlanta and Montgomery.
• Create discreet residential neighborhoods for a range of real estate buyers.

Outcomes:

• A partnership with one of the leading land developers in the southeast.
• The upgrade and expansion of public and private facilities.
• Viable preservation of sensitive forest lands, wetlands and river systems.
• The tradition of building lakes to manage stormwater, provide recreation and create habitat diversity was extended.
• Creation of a self-sustaining business model for the current generation who continues to manage the property.