Longtime Florida City mayor: “I’ve seen it all”
”He built this city from its ashes,” said Herbert Griffin, a Florida City resident since Hurricane Andrew who showed up at the polls last month to vote for another term for Wallace.
Wallace feels that experience taught him to survive any tough circumstances by planning ahead.
Currently, he is plotting the future growth of Florida City.
”The project I hold dearest to my heart are the bad areas that I want to redevelop,” Wallace said.
So far, about 2,500 acres have been annexed and the city is looking to take in more than another 2,000 acres, according to City Planner Henry Iler.