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Community Profile - Citrus Park Place

February 15th, 2010 8:34 PM

Citrus Park Place is a new home community of only 34 homesites with roughly half of the lots situated on either a pond, pond view or open space. Pricing for these single family homes range from the high $100's to the high $200's with spacious floorplans from 1,613 square feet to 2,763 square feet. The builder offers distinctive exterior designs, various structural options and stunning architectural features to ensure the home is suited for your needs and designed for the way you live.

Another great feature of Citrus Park Place is that all the homes are being built with energy efficiency in mind. All of the homes meet the Environments for Living™ performance standards, as well as meets the EPA's Energy Star™ program standards for home construction.

This Tampa Bay new home community is located in a prime location for some of the best shopping, dining and schools in the area. The Citrus Park location offers easy access via the Veteran's Expressway to downtown Tampa, the West Shore Business District, Tampa International Airport, Pinellas County beaches or Orlando.

Posted by Lyndie House on February 15th, 2010 8:34 PMPost a Comment (0)

Featured Community - Gulf Winds (Holiday / Tarpon Springs)

February 10th, 2010 9:28 PM

Gulf Winds is in Holiday just north of Tarpon Springs. This wonderful Tampa Bay community is situated on the north side of the Hillsborough / Pasco county line. This allows for the lower Pasco County taxes but is still just 5 minutes (or less) from downtown Tarpon Springs and minutes from Dunedin, New Port Richey, Trinity and Land O' Lakes.

This new home community offers both maintenance free villas and single family homes and features a resort style swimming pool and covered cabana, perfect for enjoying the beautiful Florida weather. Pricing for the villas start at $159,990 and the single family houses start at $174,990. Both the villas and single family homes are open and spacious with square footage ranging from 1,745 to 1,883 for the villas and 1,583 to 2,665 for the single family homes.

All of the homes in this Tampa Bay new home community are built with wind resistance and energy savings in mind. Some of the eSmart features included in these homes are double pane windows, low VOC emission paints and carpets, water saving bath faucets and shower heads, ENERGY STAR dishwashers, compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs, Low-E windows, increased attic insulation, increased framed wall insulation and much more. For added security, all Gulf Wind homes both villas and single family include hurricane storm shutters, steel-reinforced concrete block construction and reinforced steel garage doors.

Get out and enjoy the great outdoors at one of the four state and county parks, Anclote River Park, Anclote Gulf Park, Anclote Key Preserve State Park and Howard Park, all within minutes of Gulf Winds. Gulf Winds' location provides easy access to Clearwater Beaches, Honeymoon Island and Sunset Beach. If the beaches aren't what you're looking for you can always take a short trip over to Tampa to visit Busch Gardens, Lowry Park Zoo and Adventure Island or head a little further east to Orlando for Universal Studios, Walt Disney World and Sea World.

Posted by Lyndie House on February 10th, 2010 9:28 PMPost a Comment (0)