“Jack Piatt, founder and chairman of Millcraft Investments, was a major inspiration behind Southpointe. He said in a telephone interview last week he was cruising down I-79 with Delvin Miller, horse racing legend and Washington County icon, when Miller said, ‘we should build a golf course here.’ They were motoring past Western Center, high on a distant hill.
Piatt, who had a golf course community in Florida, said he called Mascara shortly afterward. ‘I told him that maybe we could do something with this land where we could work, live and play.'”
Read the full Observer-Reporter article here as a PDF or here online to learn how developers, planners and elected officials changed the landscape of Southpointe.
