JACKSONVILLE, Fla. --- Many Jacksonville-area families are now asking themselves, "Can we afford to live here?"
Jacksonville's largest locally-owned home builder, SEDA Construction Co., wants them all to answer "yes." All of them who can afford a house "priced from the upper $200's," that is, at Sandy Creek, conveniently located off of Interstate 95 and C.R. 210 close to the beaches, excellent area schools and to downtown businesses, yet removed from the hustle and bustle of everyday life... Read Full Story
By David A. Podgursky, MBA • May 29th, 2008 • Category: Boynton Beach - Suburban , Green Cay Village , Palm Beach Real Estate
Boynton Beach Florida is the site of the first project of its kind - a ‘Green’ development with both the environment and the buyer in mind.
Environmentally speaking, Green Cay Village in West Boynton Beach Florida is an anomaly. While people say green building, Green Cay’s developer did just that. Features include:
Energy Star Appliances
R-30 Attic... Read Full Story
Florida Workforce Housing Network is proud to announce the launch of Affordable Florida, an ambitious two-year campaign to revitalize Florida's housing industry and to resurrect "affordable" as a primary Florida value.
Affordable Florida is a volunteer-driven, grassroots campaign of public awareness, media relations, professional education, community organization and recognition of the Best Practices in Florida affordable housing and community development and the efforts of Florida... Read Full Story
ORLANDO, Fla. --- Across Florida, many of the same production home builders who rode the pricing explosion 'to infinity...and beyond' back in 2005 are positioning their homes for a new generation of post-bubble buyers who favor 'affordable' over old-school buzz words like 'luxury,' 'gated' and 'resort style.'
Yesterday Lennar's Tampa Bay division issued a news release to formally challenge area home builders to focus on 'value'---and invite potential buyers to be the judge. They sound... Read Full Story
Last Friday, Florida Workforce Housing Network logged its 15,000th site visit since our official launch on Sept. 4, 2006, and our 126th registered user. Sometime this week we will note our 55,000th page view. Not bad for an amateur all-volunteer effort.
If you're counting, that's an average of 1,500 site visits per month and growing (566 visits last week).
We launched this site unofficially one year ago in June. Four volunteers pledged to stick with it for 12 months to see whether we could... Read Full Story
(Ed. note: 12 QUESTIONS is a new weekly feature. We ask a noteworthy builder, developer, consultant, administrator or public policy maker 12 QUESTIONS about affordable housing and publish the answers---word-for-word---on Thursdays.)
FORT MYERS, Fla. --- David F. Dickerson, left, founded luxury home builder Gulf Coast Development in 1994. Recently, the company launched its Affordable Workforce Housing Initiative, which Dickerson hopes will become a statewide developer of workforce housing... Read Full Story
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. --- As Affordable Housing Director at 1000 Friends of Florida and president of the board of directors of the Florida Housing Coalition, Orlando attorney Jaimie Ross may rank as Florida's single most influential housing advocate.
Seventeen years ago, Ross joined 1000 Friends in Tallahassee. Unencumbered by reputation or prestige, she managed a feat few thought possible---the Sadowski Affordable Housing Coalition, a collection of the state's most powerful economic... Read Full Story
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. --- Nick Pavonetti, right, founded PDC Affordable Housing, Modular Housing Consultants in St. Petersburg almost two years ago to focus on affordable housing. The firm works with more than a dozen Florida clients — including cities, counties and non-profits, as well as for-profit builders and developers — to create affordable housing. Pavonetti was gracious enough to serve as our second 12 QUESTIONS subject.
1. How long have you been developing properties?
Nick... Read Full Story
ORLANDO, Fla. --- Andrew Nothstine of Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin, Inc., was the lead presenter at a Professional Development Housing Workshop at the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council in St. Petersburg two weeks ago.
He delivered his PowerPoint presentation ---"Best Practices in Affordable Housing"---before about 80 professional planners at the Florida chapter, American Planning Association's (FAPA) event.
His overview struck me as superficial. I imagined his audience---planners... Read Full Story
ORLANDO, Fla. --- Andrew Nothstine of Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin, Inc., was the lead presenter at a Professional Development Housing Workshop at the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council in St. Petersburg two weeks ago.
He delivered his PowerPoint presentation ---"Best Practices in Affordable Housing"---before about 80 professional planners at the Florida chapter, American Planning Association's (FAPA) event.
His overview struck me as superficial. I imagined his audience---planners... Read Full Story
