OAKLAND, FL-This 128-year-old west Orlando town of 936 permanent residents may soon be home to a 750-home housing development featuring a hybrid product--three-story attached 'manor' homes that look like a single residence but have separate entrances and exits.
The conceptual plans filed with the town by Los Angeles-based Castle & Cooke show Oakland Park, the planned 258-acre, estimated $75-million project, would span the town and the adjacent city of Winter Garden, six miles west of Downtown Orlando. The projected development period would be five years with about 150 homes built annually.
The three-unit, manor home configuration would be a first in Orange County, county planners tell GlobeSt.com. The project would also be comprised of triplexes, duplexes, cottages, bungalows, granny flats, townhomes and single-family residences priced from $300,000 to $1 million-plus. On the Winter Garden side of the project , the neighborhood would have 575 homes on about 191 acres. In Oakland itself there would 175 homes on 66 acres, according to preliminary filed plans with the town.
The plans show Oakland Park will be a traditionally designed neighborhood offering a mile of shoreline and a marina on Lake Apopka; quick access to the West Orange hiking and biking trail which bisects the property from east to west; and Meadowmarsh, a 128-year-old pioneer homestead once a former bed-and-breakfast inn.
Local developer Neal Harris, who is also vice president of Castle & Cooke in Florida, is coordinating the Oakland Park venture. Harris couldn't be reached by GlobeSt.com's publication deadline but west Orlando brokers and Oakland Realtors tell GlobeSt.com the estimated hard construction cost of the 750 homes and the amenities will be about $100,000 per unit.
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