E TO STOP EDROOM COMMUNITY TO BUSINESS HUB, FLORIDA’S LARGEST CITY IN PALM BEACH COUNTY BUILDS OND CENTURY ON LOCAL TALENT, STRATEGIC RSHIPS, AND HIDDEN GEMS. In the heart of Palm Beach County, Greenacres is approaching a milestone that few American cities achieve: its centennial anniversary. Founded in 1926 by Lawrence Carter “L.C.” Swain, who envisioned a community for the working class, the city has spent nearly a hundred years evolving from agricultural plots sold for $225 each into the county’s eighth-largest municipality. Today, approximately 45,000 residents call this diverse, six-square-mile city home, and local leadership has spent the past decade working to fundamentally reshape its identity. 222 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 07, ISSUE 01
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