Taylor Woodrow Communities plans to develop the new community of St. Johns Forest on CR 210 in St. Johns County. Although the land use plan would allow for more than 1,500 units, Taylor Woodrow submitted for county approval a site plan showing only 587 homesites for the exclusive, upscale community.
If approved, the developer has pledged to spend more than $500,000 to widen County Road 210 at I-95 in St. Johns County as part of its master development plan. Keith Bass, vice president of Taylor Woodrow Communities, said the road widening project would expand CR 210 from three lanes to five near the I-95 interchange, thus curing the “hour glass” effect that this congested traffic area has been dubbed.
Also planned is a retail area named Village at St. Johns Forest, an upscale shopping center at the community’s entrance. The Village at St. Johns Forest will include a Publix and 24,000 square feet of retail space for small shops and cafes.
“Pending zoning approvals, construction of the retail center should start this year and could open in fall 2003,” Bass said.
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Ryland Homes will start presales in a Jacksonville area community before the year is out, says Jeff Agar, division manager of the comapny’s office here.
Agar said the company will begin construction and presales at Waterbrook Falls, located off Garden Street in west Jacksonville, by late fall. It has 133 homesites and homes will be priced from the low $100s, Agar said.
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Girl Scouts of Gateway Council, Inc. has purchased North Fork Ranch, a pristine 250-acre site including one mile of water frontage along the North Fork of Black Creek in Clay County.