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Kissimmee, Florida. A sales contract was signed to purchase the
Highway 192 parcel in October 1981.
The Spanish investors hired Chavez to assist with the
Florida plans. Chavez and his wife were heavily involved in the
preliminary development and organization of the Florida operation
and frequently represented the Spanish investors. Chavez’s
activities included buying land and looking for estimates,
contractors, engineers, architects, attorneys, accountants, and
banks. Chavez signed the contract to purchase the Florida land
for the castle and located Charles H. Parsons (Parsons), a
Florida architect. The land contract named the buyer as “an
Offshore Corporation to be formed”.
In 1982, Parsons traveled to the Don Pancho Hotel in Spain
to meet with several of the Spanish investors regarding the
construction of the castle in Kissimmee. Parsons viewed the
castle at Benidorm and was given preliminary drawings that a
Spanish architect had made of the Benidorm castle. Chavez
eventually signed the contract hiring Parsons. The Spanish
investors had several other meetings at the Don Pancho Hotel to
discuss the U.S. venture. During one of these meetings,
Santandreu promised the Spanish investors that the American
company would compensate them for their work.
The Spanish investors began to form several corporations to
develop the Florida project. The first corporation, Inverspan,
was incorporated on November 19, 1981, in the Netherlands
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