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Article: Big plan for Plano's future
- Article from:
- The Beacon News - Aurora (IL)
- Article date:
- January 25, 2001
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A snow-covered farm field along Rock Creek Road is part of the proposed City Acre, a housing development that could more than double the size of Plano over the next several years. -- In this file photograph, Lord Peter Palumbo of England stands outside the Farnsworth House he owns near Plano. The land upon which the City Acre development would be built is held in trust for the Palumbo family.
PLANO -- Just about everything to do with the City Acre development in rural Plano is big.
Really big.
A British Lord who just happens to own more U.S. land than any other foreign property investor, planned construction of a million-gallon water tower, 821 acres of residential and commercial ...