Adena Springs Ranch is the former name of a 30,000-acre cattle ranch in

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's Marion County now known as Sleepy Creek Ranch Lands. Adena Ranches is a related cattle ranch property in

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. Both are owned by Canadian billionaire

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. Sleepy Creek Ranch Lands (formerly Adena Springs Ranch) is located near Gainesville. The first 24,000 acres cost $62 million with another $18 million in expenditures expected. The ranch is expected to produce all-natural,

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-free, grass-fed beef cattle on the once wooded property, in part to supply a planned chain of restaurants. Stronach has indicated that 40 percent of the land would remain wooded for commercial timber. A $30 million, 61,000-square-foot

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is also part of the plan as well as a

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plant to power it.Bill Thompso
Billionaire to put cattle ranch on property
August 6, 2011 Ocala.com Concerns have been raised over water usage plans and how springs (including the artesian Silver Springs of

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) will be affected. Flow from Silver Springs has already dropped by 50% in the past few years due to an ongoing drought. Stronach has filed for a permit to pump more than 13 million gallons of water from the Floridan aquifer daily from the

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. This is more than the city of Ocala uses for its 150,000 people.Nathan Crabb

May 15, 2012 Gainesville Sun Stronach is also developing an upscale

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(Ocala Meadows Farms) at

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and State Road 326. The $60 million development is the most recent venture for the founder

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and former owner thoroughbred horse racing tracks in Florida,

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and

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