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Florida

Girl Scouts of West Central Florida, GSWCF

  • Camp Scoutcrest, Odessa, FL 
For sale May 2015
Link to Council Long Range Property Plan
​lwww.gswcf.org/en/camps/long-range-property-planning.html

Save Our Scoutcrest FB page 
​www.facebook.com/Save-Our-Scoutcrest-970619593058673/

Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida, GSSEF

  • Camp Telogia, Parkland, FL
To close June 2017
Girl Scouts closing only camp in Broward
www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-camp-telogia-closing-20160211-story.html
The only Girl Scout camp in Broward County will close, despite an effort by volunteers to save the beloved Parkland acreage.
Camp Telogia, a Girl Scout camp for 55 years, will shut its gates to overnight campers in June and will close to all events in June 2017, the Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida told members.
Girl Scout camp's fate still unknown
​www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-camp-telogia-fate-20151125-story.html
For a moment, a group of Girl Scout moms thought they'd saved Camp Telogia.
The woodsy Parkland acreage is the only camp in Broward County for Girl Scouts, and the organization's administrators wanted to sell it to developers.
But even though the County Commission failed to allow its sale in October, and supporters raised $67,000 in private pledges to keep it open, its fate remains in limbo, subject to a decision by the Scouts ruling body.
The Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida still might close the camp on Holmberg Road, rejecting the donations and returning the taxpayer-donated land to Broward County.
Girl Scouts want to sell tax-payer donated camp to developer
www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-broward-girl-scouts-giveaway-20150927-story.html
Valued at more than $2.3 million, the 9.5 acres technically belongs to the Girl Scouts, but the county sold it to them in 1961 for $1, with strings attached: The land was to remain in use for Broward Girl Scouts, and it could not be leased or sold without county permission.
The Girl Scouts organization is asking county commissioners to release the restrictions on the land so they can sell it to a developer, though no developer has been identified.

Girl Scouts of the Gateway Council, GSGC

  • Camp Chowenwaw, Green Cove Springs 
Sold 2006 to Clay County, now a county park

  • Camp Seminole Springs, Orange Springs
For sale 2015
Camp Seminole Springs Real Estate Listing
http://www.pepinerealestate.com/results-gallery/?hood=4613096
Camp Chowenwaw Park
http://parks.claycountygov.com/

Big Cabin of old Camp Chowenwaw getting new life as part of Clay County park
http://jacksonville.com/community/clay/2011-09-01/story/big-cabin-old-camp-chowenwaw-getting-new-life-part-clay-county-park
When the $403,000 county-funded project is completed, probably in November, it will mark the successful closing of another chapter of the county's conversion of Camp Chowenwaw from a Girl Scout retreat to a public park focused on recreation, conservation and historic preservation. That process began in spring 2006, when, after relocating to another site on Black Creek, the Girl Scouts of the Gateway Council sold the 150-acre Camp Chowenwaw to the county for $4.4 million. The cost was shared by the Florida Communities Trust, using Florida Forever funds, and the county.

The entire process has worked so well it is being used as a model for other Scouting councils throughout the country, said Nancy White, spokeswoman for the Gateway Council, who is not related to Bob White.

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