Gran Paradiso Event Success

Radio Station Prize Wheel Tent

Landscaping in Front of One of the Models

Designer Progress in One of the Models

View of the Community Center from Models

Part of a Kitchen and Pantry

Entry Walkway into Community Center

Walkway Along Where the Pool Area Will Be

Fitness Center Ceiling Detail

Fitness Center

Entry View from Inside

Community Center Landscaping and Detail

Community Center Entry

Entry Hall View

Walkway View to Fitness Center

Full Parking Lot and Street

Steel Drummer

Southern Accents Catering

Filled Seating Under the Tent

People signing up to Win and iPad

Musical Entertainment

People Enjoying Food and Entertainment

Gran Paradiso Current Neighborhood

I wrote an email in response to some specific questions in an inquiry received about the community's history and felt it worthy of sharing...

Gran Paradiso was a Sam Rodgers exclusive, gated community starting in 2006 that has now been purchased and taken over by Lennar Corp. Lennar was able to purchase the development with already existing high-end, luxury infrastructure at a very low cost. This is how their prices and fees can be kept so low and still offer maintenance-free living with resort-style amenities, and why no other community in the area will be able to compare with the price and low fees for the lifestyle it offers.

Lennar restarted new home sales in the community last October. Here is the link to a local newspaper article about the community’s history and outlook from that time: http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20131013/ARTICLE/131019860?p=1&tc=pg#gsc.tab=0. In the past couple of months, when new home sales are typically slow because of the holiday season, Lennar has already exceeded expectations. (I also included the text of my blog post from last week describing some of this in the email.)

There are currently about thirty households in residence in the community, and Lennar has contracts to build as many as that since it recently opened for sales, doubling the number of homeowners. Lennar is hosting a Grand Opening event this Saturday and will be hosting another shortly when the models are open, the date for that has not yet been released, though.

Any other questions that can I answer for you? If so, feel free to call (941-539-5771) or email (ali@granparadisovillage.com). Anything I don't know, I am happy to find out.

www.GranParadisoVillage.com

Gran Paradiso at the West Villages. Venice, Florida

Grand Opening event this Saturday, January 25th, from 1pm-3pm.

Well, I had planned on only posting weekly, but I received some news that needed to be shared in the interim...Lennar is hosting a Grand Opening event this Saturday, January 25th, from 1pm-3pm. Below are excerpts from the email announcement I received about it.

This weekend (Saturday, January 25th) is Gran Paradiso's community grand opening! 

There will be a large tent setup to the left of the sales center.

Advertising in Sarasota Herald Tribune  and on Clear Channel radio starting [Jan. 21st]....The radio station will have it's own table under our large tent with a prize wheel, they will be doing live announcements, live on-air.

Southern Accents will provide the catering.

Steel drum music (Island style). 

Prizes, catering, and music...that's all I needed to know! ;) Look forward to seeing you there.

Gran Paradiso
20061 Galleria Blvd.
Venice, FL  34293

www.GranParadisoVillage.com

Gran Paradiso Springs to Life

Excitement is building (and so are homes!) in Gran Paradiso at the West Villages as National Homebuilder Lennar has begun to work its magic in this community. Virtually a ghost town even just last year, recent events in this area south of Venice presages its great transfiguration underway.  New home building is proceeding for both the many new community members as well as Lennar’s models, which should be open to the public shortly. Though, even without models open, about thirty new homes have already been purchased in the past couple of months.

Really, it is no wonder that this project is beginning to flourish. To open, Lennar began offering low introductory charges for the first resident investors of the available lots and has only slightly increased prices since then. Also, the developer’s combination of under-market association fee rates, resort-style amenities, as well as maintenance-free living, seems to be a winner with current buyers.

With the housing market on a steady pace of recovery, and buyers beginning to feel it, spring in Gran Paradiso at the West Villages promises all kinds of new growth. There will be more new homes breaking ground and showing progress. New members will be joining the community. The community center should also begin new construction, as its turnover finalization is scheduled for the beginning of February (according to Tuesday’s West Villages Improvement District Meeting that I attended), and Lennar estimates center completion at sometime this summer.  I, for one, am enthusiastic to see this neighborhood go from deserted last year to thriving during this one.

(If you want some info prior to now, click to read an article from October 2013 about the opening of the new Gran Paradiso.) 

www.granparadisovillage.com