Walking Hand in Hand: Newland Communities and Fowler White Boggs Banker

From an attorney's perspective, there are real estate projects, and then there are "master-planned communities." Consider San Diego-based Newland Communities' latest project, the 7,000-acre Bexley Ranch. Located in Pasco County, Fla., just outside Tampa, Bexley will feature 6,000 single-family homes; 1,000 multifamily units; 400,000 square feet of retail space; 250,000 square feet of office space; land for two elementary schools, a middle school and a high school; an 18-hole golf course; a library; some 120 acres of parks; a 176-acre wildlife corridor and a 1,433-acre greenway corridor, each with walking trails and bike paths; and roughly $78 million in local road improvements.

Getting a project this big off the ground -- it's being developed in three phases and should be completed around 2025 -- takes experience and plenty of legal legwork. In the case of Bexley, the legal concerns rest squarely on the shoulders of Rhea F. Law, president and CEO of Fowler White Boggs Banker.

By Counsel to Counsel Editor Scott M. Gawlicki