Pond-view living — About 40 of the 92 homes planned for Sawyer’s Landing will front on a large, landscaped retention pond. The rest of the homes will back up to open space, the developer said. This view faces west.
IMAGE COURTESY M3 DEVELOPMENT
Prestige location — A residential development adjacent to Victoria Park is on the drawing board. A Winter Park developer is poised to create dozens of new single-family homes in Sawyer’s Landing.
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Another sign of a robust real estate market in West Volusia is the latest development coming to DeLand.
Dozens of single-family homes are to be built on the southeast side of DeLand. The project, known as Sawyer’s Landing, will consist of approximately 30 acres north of and adjacent to the Victoria Trails neighborhood in the northwest quadrant of Victoria Park, according to David McDaniel of M3 Development in Winter Park.
McDaniel said the typical lot size in Sawyer’s Landing will be 50 feet by 110 feet, with homes ”comparable to what’s being built in the Trails area.” He did not say what the price range of the homes will be.
“It’s going to be really nice, with 92 lots, about 40 of which will front on a retention pond,” McDaniel said. “Many of the others will back up to substantial open space, as much as 100 to 200 feet deep in some places.”
The proposed new neighborhood is inside the DeLand city limits, on the west side of Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Beltway, between Taylor and Orange Camp roads.
Access to Sawyer’s Landing will be through the Victoria Trails subdivision, McDaniel said. The sellers of the property also were adamant about providing pedestrian access to Freedom Elementary School on South Blue Lake Avenue.
“We were glad to help out,” McDaniel said. “[Students] will have access through the subdivision.”
Steve Costa, a broker with Charles Wayne Properties, handled the sale of the Sawyer’s Landing tract to M3 Development from a corporate entity consisting of attorneys Darren Elkind and Butch Paul. M3 Development paid $1.26 million for the acreage, Costa said.
This is M3 Development’s first project in Volusia County to come to fruition, McDaniel said, but more projects could lie ahead.
- Joe Crews (joe@beacononlinenews.com) and Al Everson (al@beacononlinenews.com)