Small town, big plans: a controversial developer has the tiny town of Crestview dreaming big.

It's not often a wealthy businessman strolls into rural Crestview, buys 11,000 acres and announces his intention to attract more industry to the area. Ron Davis, president of Earth Art Inc., a construction and development company based in Newberry, west of Gainesville, has offered Okaloosa County 161 acres for a wastewater treatment site and has committed to donate land for a north-south bypass around Crestview that could serve as a hurricane evacuation route.

Why the interest in Crestview, population 14,275? Davis says he's a "country bumpkin" from Callahan with a soft