Let's Build a Traditional City and Make a Profit

Re:Let's Build a Traditional City and Make a Profit by bkmartin on Thursday July 31, 2014 @04:40PM (#8116855)

Where can you find .25 acre of land in a development for $5000? Locally for me, in a more rural part of Pennsylvania it's like $20,000 to $40,000 for a .25 acre parcel.

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Re:Let's Build a Traditional City and Make a Profit by bane on Thursday July 31, 2014 @08:04PM (#8117715)

Here's some for <$700/.25 acre, but it's 2.5 hours to anything remotely urban (Scranton).

http://www.landwatch.com/Tioga-County-Pennsylvania-Land-for-...

Not individual .25 acre lots, but a committed developer can probably get it rezoned however they need.

It rises rapidly the closer in towards major cities.

If you're a large scale developer (of the sort that the county would hit up to help with transit development), you're probably going to buy a few hundred to a few thousand undeveloped/agricultural acres and get it rezoned.

This is a little better, $500/.25 acre and only slightly further than an hour from Pittsburgh. That's commuting distance for many people.

http://www.landwatch.com/Somerset/Cambria-County-Pennsylvani...

And here's some just an hour outside of Philly at $825/.25 acre.

http://www.landwatch.com/Montour-County-Pennsylvania-Land-fo...

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