Rosewood helping reading program
Rosewood Homes has launched a major fundraising campaign for an innovative reading program at Green Cove Springs Junior High School. The money will help purchase a portable building for the pioneering program that helps children reading below their grade level.
A Rosewood Homes sales associate learned about the fledgling reading program from a friend who taught at Green Cove Junior High School. She relayed the program’s goals to Rosewood Homes, whose team later visited the school to see firsthand the program in action. What they saw was a flourishing reading program that had big needs in the way of supplies. To help jumpstart the program, Rosewood Homes donated $5,000 for reading materials, CDs and other educational equipment.
The effort now is for the creation of a dedicated building for kids in the reading program. To do this, Rosewood Homes is raising money to buy a portable building.
Panitz starts OakLeaf project
Panitz Signature Homes has announced the building and design plans for Village Oaks, 21 courtyard homes located in OakLeaf Village Center, a 25-acre neighborhood that includes homes, shops and offices.
Designed in a neo-traditional style of architecture, the Village Oaks community has two-story homes that include upper and lower porches.
There are six floorplans available with three or four bedrooms and ranging from 1,800 to 2,750 square feet. The homes include two-car garages (with alley or edge entries), a master bedroom downstairs (some plans with two master suites) and exterior options which vary from stucco to brick accents.
Homes range from the high $300s to mid $400s; however, preconstruction pricing is also available for a limited time.
Laterra has third building
The third and final building at Laterra at World Golf has been completed. It has 36 residences with one-, two- and three- bedroom units. Prices start in the $200s with floor plans ranging from 877 square feet to 1,758 square feet of living space.
Palencia has new model
The Stonebridge III by ICI Homes is the newest model to open in Palencia, the 1,450-acre master-planned community which borders the Intracoastal Waterway and Marshall Creek in northern St. Johns County.
The Stonebridge includes four bedrooms plus den, four and a half baths, and a bonus room for 3,886 square feet of living space.
New community coming to Southside
Tapestry Park Partners, LLC has unveiled plans for Tapestry Park, a townhome community in Jacksonville’s Southside. The 18-acre property is between downtown and the Beaches.
There will be one-, two- and three-bedroom townhomes with garage parking.
Entrance ready at Amelia Bay
The newly landscaped gated entranceway has been completed at Amelia Bay Estates, Kollar Brothers’ newest community in Nassau County. With development complete, the waterfront community is moving toward a sellout with only 14 of 39 custom building lots available.
The one-acre and larger parcels are priced from $140,000, with most sites backing up to preserve areas.
Buyers can select their own builder and build with no mandatory construction time frames.
Buy a loft, get a Vespa
HCM Construction and Cranewoods Development, LLC broke ground on The Chelsea Lofts in Riverside last month. The 20-unit loft condominium development will combine “open loft” artistic interiors with high-end finishes. Among those on hand to toss the first shovels of dirt were David Barton of AmSouth Bank; Andy Howe, president of HCM Construction; Cliff Duch, director of architecture for Cronk Duch Partners; and Chris Donovan, director of sales for Lifestyles Realtors.
Anyone who purchases a loft will also get a Vespa motor scooter.
“The Vespa promotion is perfect for the project,” said Donovan. “They are very cool and a breeze to park in an urban environment.”