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5 years later – County hauls dirt from vacant industrial site
In February 2009 three Santa Rosa County Commissioners voted to purchase 88 acres of land from Navarre developer Bill Pullum at a price which triggered a federal grand jury investigation and is blamed for the downfall of former commissioner Gordon Goodin. That property on Hwy. 87 South, named the Northwest Florida Interstate 10 Industrial Park, remains vacant five years later.
The county paid about $3.1 million for land appraised at $900,000 in 2009. The site remains undeveloped five years later, and the county currently uses it as a dirt pit.
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