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This will be a three-part series that will give all of you a little
history about how Pringle Development started and how we have become
the award winning community developer we are today. These articles
are written by George Pringle himself and will give all of you a
real feeling of how a family business that started with integrity
and a dream became a success story.
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George O.
Pringle |
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is probably no activity in my life that has given me more satisfaction
than working with my son, John, and the folks at Pringle Development to
build a respected, successful and thriving enterprise. I want to
emphasize at the outset that in very large measure it is the folks
working with us, our employees, who created this success. As John so
often says, "Pringle does not have good employees, Pringle IS good
employees."
I've
been retired for a little over a year, now, and I can look back as if
through a telescope to look at where we started and where we have been.
Our first development was Scottish Highlands and, in fact, the company
was originally named Scottish Highlands, Inc. We simply did not envision
at the outset the expansion, the additional developments and the sales
volume the company has achieved today.
Scottish Highlands was built on a parcel of pasture land land owned by
my family. At the time, the early '80s, the land was vacant and idle. I
had finished my career at Chrysler, first at the Space Division and then
at their Airtemp Division, so I found myself free to pursue other
interests. The interest that developed was to use the vacant Florida
land for a retirement community along the lines of others in the area.
All the other communities in the area at that time consisted of mobile
homes, but the residents around Silver Lake (which had been developed by
my grandfather and father, among others) resisted the idea of another
mobile home community, so we developed the first retirement community in
the area with regular, site-built homes and all the amenities of
retirement communities. Before long, other communities copied us, and
today you see communities of site-built homes as the norm in this area.
Please watch for more of this three-part series. - George Pringle
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