In the Know: More homes planned on Immokalee Road east of Collier Blvd.
Another new housing development is planned off Immokalee Road east of Collier Boulevard.
Expect Neal Communities to begin construction on Richmond Park in a couple of months on the southwest corner of Immokalee Road and Woodcrest Drive. The new residential community will have 104 multifamily dwelling units in 13 buildings, site development construction plans show.
The first homes in the gated community are targeted to open next spring or summer, said Michael Greenberg, Southwest Florida regional president for Neal Communities.
The project will be Neal’s fourth in Collier County. The Florida-based homebuilder developed Canopy and Reflection Lakes communities east of Collier Boulevard, and is now building Avalon of Naples on the corner of Davis Boulevard and County Barn Road in East Naples.
Richmond Park’s cluster of condos will be similar to its Avalon project.
“It’s the same product that we are doing at Avalon, just a different location,” Greenberg said.
Richmond Park will be small compared with neighboring subdivisions under construction. The property’s more than 15 acres are sandwiched between two new residential developments: Bent Creek Preserve and LaMorada, which both have entrances off Woodcrest Drive.
A large, narrow, rectangular retention pond runs the entire western edge of Richmond Park, separating it from new homes in Bent Creek. The community’s amenity center near its entrance off Woodcrest includes a clubhouse and pool near a lake with shade structures and a grill, site development construction plans show.
Neal Communities of Southwest Florida purchased the 16-acre property in May for $1.6 million from Mary Wagner, a 90-year-old Palm Beach woman who picked up the investment property for $145,000 in 1988.
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