Polk County Developments

The Citrus Ridge development will bring retail, apartments and a build-for-rent townhouse community to the U.S. 27 corridor just south of Posner Park.

Visitors will have the option of staying in one of 10 new treehouse accommodations overlooking the safari attraction.

Two adjacent subdivisions would add a combined 864 residential lots and 72 multifamily units to the city.

The Orlando-based homebuilder is acquiring 1,150 residential lots in Lake, Polk and Brevard counties, where it will start vertical construction on new homes by spring 2022.

Plans for a regional shopping mall in Four Corners never materialized, so Polk County has allowed the owners to sell off parcels for residential development.

The largest transaction was the purchase of Deer Run Estates, a 167-lot subdivision in south St. Cloud.

The mayor calls it "one of the biggest undertakings in the city of Lake Wales in a long time."

The 3,090-home subdivision would need a supermajority vote at City Commission next week to move forward.

America's largest homebuilder has three townhome projects with a combined 573 units in the pipeline.

The newly renamed Westview community will launch a townhouse community and four single-family neighborhoods, including an age-restricted neighborhood, in late 2022.

The developer will employ green building techniques such as utilizing solar power for the clubhouse and installing EV charging stations.

The sprawling community will take 20 years to build and add 6,100 more homes to the City of Lake Wales.

Lake Wales City Commissioners will vote on the four separate subdivision requests on June 15.

The last week of May saw lenders approve about $200 million in construction loans for five new Class A apartment communities in Lake Nona, Kissimmee, Davenport and on Lake Whippoorwill.

The developer plans to start the environmental cleanup of the former fertilizer plant this summer and start vertical construction in early 2022.

Four local and national homebuilders are already selling in Winter Haven's Villamar community, which could grow to over 2,000 homes if City Council approves the latest zoning request.

The city of Lake Wales has two more residential subdivisions already in the pipeline.

The latest hotel project near Legoland, a proposed Best Western Plus, has been in the works since 2016.

The first phase includes a branded hotel and 116 contemporary homes overlooking a new man-made lake in the center of the community.

The homebuilder is ramping up production, with plans to open eight new communities this year and six in 2022.

The new subdivision would be next door to Forest Lake, where Pulte is already pre-selling new homes under its Centex Brand.

The new neighborhoods would be built south of Ernie Caldwell Boulevard and adjacent to the Del Webb community in Ridgewood Lakes.

Located in the desirable ChampionsGate/Reunion submarket, the community was completed in 2020 and was 97% leased at the time of the sale.

The developer has contracts in place with Lennar, D.R. Horton, Dream Finders and Park Square Homes to build homes in the 704-lot subdivision.

With one industrial park planned for construction this year in Groveland, the developer will start work on a second next year in Winter Haven.

Developer David Waronker is prepping 4,000 residential lots in east Polk County for sale to national and local homebuilders. Homebuyer demand is so high, he could sell 10,000 lots, if he had them.

The developer plans to build a large pool and clubhouse on the lakeshore. Other amenities in the approved plan include a wedding chapel, boat launch, yoga lawn and splash pad.

The Orlando builder scooped up the site just outside of ChampionsGate when another builder backed out.

The developer wanted to build workforce housing on the site, but city officials wanted at least half of the building to be non-residential.

The site on U.S. 27 was once intended to be a regional mall. Now the owners want to reposition it for residential development.