Santa Rosa Moves Forward With Navy Land Swap Plan

Santa Rosa County, FL (Newsradio 92.3) -- Santa Rosa County is moving ahead with plans to acquire a 700-acre Navy training field in East Milton and turn it into an industrial park. County commissioners approved spending 162-thousand dollars to study the development potential of Navy Outlying Field Santa Rosa. But the deal has evolved beyond a simple land swap. Economic Development Director Shannon Ogletree says the county is now looking at helping upgrade existing Navy facilities like runways and taxiways instead of finding land to build a new training field. He says the project could eventually create up to two-thousand jobs.