Teresa Burney covered growth and development for GrowthSpotter.com in Lake County, as well as communities in West Orange County, from May 2015 through March 2018. A Florida native, Teresa has been a journalist for 30-plus years, writing about everything from alligator hunting to real estate to the businesses of building homes and developing land. Most recently she spent seven years chronicling the rise, fall, and nascent recovery of the home building industry as a senior editor for BUILDER and BIG BUILDER magazines.