Real Estate & Property Law
ABA Leader & Land Use Expert Loved Baseball and Hawaiian Shirts
Posted Nov 20, 2009, 06:29 pm CST
By Martha Neil
Renowned for his Florida land-use expertise and love of baseball, David Cardwell was seemingly more comfortable in a Hawaiian shirt than a business suit.
“But once he opened his mouth, you knew this guy was the smartest man in the room. And you had to listen,” John Jacobsen of the Cape Coral Community Redevelopment Agency tells the News-Press.
Jacobsen and many others are mourning the loss of Cardwell, who died Wednesday in a hospital in Orlando of complications from swine flu, pneumonia and bronchitis. The newspaper says he was 64 years old, but some other reports list him as only 57.
Although he had retired from most of his longtime leadership activities in the American Bar Association, Cardwell… Continue reading...
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