The Mediterranean development, designed by Miami-based MSAArchitects Inc., will include 140 three-story townhomes and 32two-story single-family homes. The townhomes will range in sizefrom 2,250 sf to 2,950 sf and the single-family homes will range insize from 3,400 sf to 3,900 sf. Prices range from $600,000s to $1.4million. Site clearing is under way and the sales center will openin March.

The project is located along the 27-acre shoreline of Blue Lakeadjacent to the 78-acre Pondhawk Nature Preserve, a plannedcounty-owned nature preserve with restored wetlands and an overlookshelter and close to Broken Sound Golf Club. A pedestrian esplanadealong the lakefront will link to a new walkway leading to a newlibrary, the planned Countess de Hoernle Park and the nature trailswithin the Pondhawk Natural Area. The project is also close to theShoppes at Blue Lake shopping plaza and within a short drive toMizner Park, Town Center and Royal Palm Plaza.

This is the first residential project in Boca Raton for Stiles."What is unique about this site is that the property is ensconcedin the splendors of nature without being removed from the center ofthe city," says Stiles Corp. chairman and CEO Terry Stiles.