The next Latitude Margaritaville, a Jimmy Buffett-inspired active adult community, may be coming to Texas

There may perhaps not be an ocean around Dallas or Austin. But that would not necessarily mean there can’t be a Margaritaville.

Adhering to the effective launch of their Latitude Margaritaville 55-and-up communities in three other areas, learn developer Minto Communities Usa and Margaritaville Holdings, singer Jimmy Buffett’s hospitality enterprise, are now scouting for a fourth web-site in Texas. 

Following forming a partnership in 2017, the two companies have produced Latitude Margaritavilles in Daytona Seashore, Florida, and in the vicinity of Hilton Head, South Carolina, and, most a short while ago, around Panama Metropolis Beach at Latitude Margaritaville Watersound where by they joined The St. Joe Company. Minto, the builder at Margaritaville, is a builder and supervisor of homes, rental houses and industrial place with a existence in Canada and the southern United States. 

“We had been actively hunting at land [in Texas],” Minto Latitude Margaritaville Division President William Bullock advised Design Dive. “I’ve been there numerous instances more than the final pair of months. My entire group was out in Dallas this 7 days, as a make a difference of reality. So we are in very hot pursuit.”

Constructing the Margaritaville life style

But what about the maritime environment? Even though the Margaritaville life style, popularized by Buffett’s traditional track, is carefully linked with remaining near the ocean, Bullock stated these active adult communities don’t will need to be found around the drinking water to give the features, including the food stuff, music and escapism, that is central to the brand name. 

In point, this summer season the 32-tale, 234-place Margaritaville Vacation resort Instances Square opened in New York Metropolis. The residence includes five eating places and bar alternatives, including the Margaritaville Cafe, LandShark Bar & Grill and 5 o’Clock Somewhere Rooftop Bar. There is also a conditioning centre and Margaritaville model retail retail store.

A rendering of the Latitude Bar & Chill restaurant at Latitude Margaritaville.

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At Latitude Margaritaville, the city heart serves as the epicenter of the everyday dwelling working experience.

“We really feel really self-assured that we can carry the brand to people markets and not automatically have to have the seashore in your backyard,” Bullock mentioned. “When you go to just one of our city centers, we have pools, songs in the afternoons at the bar and cafe. We’ve received concert events at evening in which all of the community will come with each other. Nobody’s undertaking that in these Texas markets. The escapism will be successful in all those markets with out the immediate link to the seaside.”

And Bullock thinks a large amount of Texans could possibly want to retire at a Margaritaville Latitude. “The Metroplex in Dallas has 15 million persons,” he explained. “Houston has 10 million. There are a good deal of individuals who want to retire in these markets.”

Sunshine Condition Expansion

When Texas retains a whole lot of obvious appeal for Minto Communities and Margaritaville Holdings, the companies, together with St. Joe, however have a ton of function to do at their project, Latitude Margaritaville Watersound, on Northwest Florida’s Emerald Coastline in close proximity to Panama City Seaside and the Freeway 30A corridor.

In April, the developers opened 13 model homes at Latitude Margaritaville Watersound. Suitable now, 130 houses are under design and closings are expected to get started this thirty day period. They have sold 300 homes to date and are anticipating 450 by means of the stop of the calendar year.

At Latitude Margaritaville Watersound’s town centre, where design not too long ago started, the features include things like an amphitheater, a comprehensive-size live performance phase, a jumbo monitor for concerts and flicks, tennis, pickleball courts, a exercise centre with an indoor pool and spa and the Barkaritaville Dog Park. It will also contain themed eating choices which includes a two-story Bar & Chill cafe overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway, Alterations in Angle Bar and Forget Bar. 

William Bullock

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“The panhandle is a leading place for retirees and the beach locations are unparalleled,” Bullock claimed. “We are close to the seashore right here. You have literally got the drinking water at the edge of the residence and that produces scenic views like you’ve got at any time observed.”

But those 450 residences are only the suggestion of the iceberg. Minto Communities and Margaritaville Holdings have 3,500 models entitled at Latitude Margaritaville Watersound. The growth sits within St. Joe’s mammoth Bay-Walton Sector Approach, encompassing somewhere around 110,500 acres and about 15 miles of frontage on the Intracoastal Waterway.

“The pure scale of the quantity of entitlements that are nevertheless in advance of us is as opposed to everything I have ever witnessed,” Bullock claimed. “Even at The Villages [retirement community in Florida], I will not feel they’re chatting about 150,000 entitlements. So we are going to be there for a very long time. I feel we’ve variety of got Florida lined.”

That stated, if he experienced the alternative, Bullock would also acquire the Latitude Margaritaville further more south. But which is possibly not in the cards in the near foreseeable future. For a development to function, Bullock wants about 1,500 to 1,700 acres for 3,000 to 3,500 models. Just about anything a lot less than that and it is challenging to make the numbers pencil out.

“I’d like to see something in South Florida,” Bullock said. “But it can be challenging to uncover land that will assist what we want.”