The Lowndes Drosdick Network: How one regional law firm represents both poles of every controversy across the south Lake corridor

Lowndes Drosdick Doster Kantor Reed, P.A. — an Orlando-based regional firm — represented Pointe Grande, the Live Local Act application Minneola was legally forced to accept in January 2024, and the same firm represented Hills of Minneola Town Center / Crooked Can, the project Minneola most wanted, in January 2025. Tara Tedrow filed both. The firm represents Crystal Cove townhomes, Citrus Grove Road Commercial / Citrus Ridge, and Camp Lake Industrial Park in Minneola; Silver Springs, Old Mill, Venice at Lake Harris, Oak Ridge, and Dominium Apartments in Leesburg; Plaza Collina amendments in Clermont. The firm appears on both sides of the controversy axis in every city it operates. The cities are local; the legal-economy is regional. By the time a case arrives at a Planning Commission dais, the most consequential decisions about what gets filed and what doesn't have been made at the firm's pre-application read.