The BBC have a video of a sinkhole eating two houses here.
Apparently the sinkhole could be 50 feet deep. Isn’t that sufficiently shallow to be usable? Line the edges, then build an extended basement, divided between the houses on top. At 200 feet wide there’s a lot of usable area there too.
Think about why there’s a sinkhole there in the first place.
Let someone else build over The sarlacc’s den.
In my experience these things can only be sealed by having prominent local politicians leap in like Marcus Curtius into the Gulph.
For this size I would suggest Marco Curtus and Debbie Wasserman-something, holding hands.
Not a whole lot of basements in Florida. Lots of pools! These two facts are not unrelated.
Same thing happened near me last year.
it’s not “usable” since a lot of sinkholes in developed areas are caused by what happened in Fraser. a big sewage pipe collapsed underground and washed away subsurface soil; then everything sitting atop it falls in.
You want to build something in a raw-sewage-contaminated pit?
This one is related to Florida’s geology and opened up where they’d tried to stabilize a sinkhole a year earlier.
Whenever I see this, I can’t help wondering how far away the nearest fracking site is?
Actually, there isn’t any fracking in Florida yet.
a house fell into a sinkhole and killed a guy. They never found his body , they said it was too risky to go down and look for it. think that was also in Florida.
It’s always Florida.
Doesn’t even matter what "it’ is.
Read about that too, it was like 3 years ago or something. He was sleeping and got eaten by the hole.
And now, wedged somewhere in the water table, Floridians slowly drink his essence like a weak tea.
Since he was conveniently buried in the hole, why would we need to pull him out and bury him in a different hole? 
1 word.
Karst.
It answers all your questions
And w/ that his last, tenuous grip on reality floated into the ether, never to be seen again.
Except when it’s Texas.
I think you’ll find it’s not certain that there will be no further sinking.
The article and video indicate that the hole is spreading horizontally but not vertically. So if the sides could be stabilised then it would stop spreading.
Okay, it’s not currently spreading vertically. Did the article and/or video indicate it would not sink further in the future?