General Development Corporation

General Development Corporation
Company type	Public company
Predecessor	Florida Canada Corporation, Mackle Co.
Founded	1958
Founder	Elliot, Robert and Frank Mackle
Defunct	1991
Fate	Exonerated in 1991 for fraudulent home sales. Restitution was set up and succeeded by Atlantic Gulf Communities.
Successor	Atlantic Gulf Communities
Headquarters	Miami, Florida
Number of employees	(5,000 (1970))

General Development Corporation, also known as GDC, was a land development company in Florida. General Development Corporation would be created in 1958 after a merger between Florida Canada Corporation and the Mackle Bros.^[1]

^ Interstate Mail Order Land Sales: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Frauds and Misrepresentations Affecting the Elderly of the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, Session. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1964. p. 222 – via Google Books.

[:02-1] Interstate Mail Order Land Sales: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Frauds and Misrepresentations Affecting the Elderly of the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, Session. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1964. p. 222 – via Google Books.

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