May 26, 2013
“[TG] Lee milked his cows in a 10x10 foot lean-to on Bumby Avenue. In 1955, Lee sold 20 acres at Colonial Drive and Bumby Avenue to a New York real estate group for $200,000 in preparation for building the $3.5 million Colonial Plaza shopping center. It would be the largest retail project up to that time, and it later became Central Florida’s first mall. Another 2,000 acres of former Lee pasture between Conway and Orlando International Airport is now LeeVista Inc.”
From Flashbacks: The Story of Central Florida’s Past by Jim Robison