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Developer Match Up at FRA Conference

Developer Match Up is a new exhibit-style event being featured at the Florida Redevelopment Association (FRA) Annual Conference, October 13-15, 2010, at the Peabody Orlando. Developer Match Up will be held from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 14. Public sector FRA members and any city or county are invited to present their property or portfolio of properties at this event. For $100, you will receive a six-foot skirted table and two chairs; promotion of the event to a wide sector of private-sector investors in Florida; consultation with experts in the fields of commercial real estate, financing and environmental issues; refreshments (does not include lunch) and a pre-printed banner with the name of your entity. You will also have access to experts from the real estate, financial and environmental fields who can answer your questions about how to best attract redevelopers to your sites. Contact Carol Westmoreland at cwestmoreland@flcities.com or (850) 701-3608 for more information and to register.

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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once famously observed that “[t]he most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater, and causing a panic. It does not even protect a man from an injunction against uttering words that may have all the effect of force.” (Schenck vs. United States – 249 U.S. 47 – 1919) Justice Holmes was not denying the First Amendment (though one certainly can question the application of the principle he articulated to the case he helped decide); he was affirming that even our most fundamental freedoms have their necessary limits.

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