Tuscany Cove, Naples, Florida -
Sales Status - Initial Offer

Through the first week of marketing of the community, contracts were recorded for all of the available homes in the first phase of Tuscany Cove, a North Naples, Florida community of attached villas and single-family homes developed by Elias Brothers Communities.

According to Laura V. Johnston, director of marketing for Elias Brothers Communities, during the week of August 23 to 27, the Tuscany Cove sales team began accepting contracts for the community’s first phase via a series of appointments for VIP customers and real estate professionals. The VIPs included many homeowners in communities previously developed by Elias Brothers Communities.

According to Michele Ellis Harrison, the firm’s director of sales, the sales staff recorded 77 contracts for 99 homes available in the first phase over the five days of appointments.

“When the sales office opened its doors to the general public on Saturday, August 28, the sales team was met by a long line of customers, some of whom had arrived at 5 a.m. that morning to ensure their place in line,” Harrison said. “By noon, the sales team had written contracts for the balance of Phase I.”

According to Johnston, the 54 homesites in the second phase of Tuscany Cove are planned to be released for marketing within the next 45 to 60 days.

According to Roni Elias, a principal of Elias Brothers Communities, Tuscany Cove draws upon the firm’s most recent development, Ibis Cove, for its home designs, but offers enhancements such as additional features and expanded amenities.

“While our floor plans are essentially the same as those in Ibis Cove, we are offering side-garage options for two designs, upgrading the standard features, such as adding tile roofs and brick-paver driveways, and improving the amenities with a larger clubhouse and additional recreation areas for children,” Elias said.

The site for Tuscany Cove is on the east side of Collier Boulevard approximately one-half mile south of Immokalee Road. The 78-acre community will consist of 294 residences, including 146 attached villas and 148 homes. With two lakes totaling approximately 10 acres with illuminated fountains and several protected natural areas, many homes will have water or preserve views.

A brick-paver bridge and entry road off of Collier Boulevard will serve as the gateway to Tuscany Cove. Beyond the remote-controlled electronic gate will be a tropically-landscaped paver traffic roundabout with an illuminated fountain at its center.

The community’s recreational center will be immediately north of the entrance. Housed in two wings connected by a breezeway, the clubhouse will offer approximately 7,000-square feet of air-conditioned space. One wing will consist of an equipped exercise room, an aerobics room, a media room, lavatories, and, to the rear, a screened patio. The main wing will include a ballroom with a wet bar, a billiards room with space for two pool tables, card room, and a children’s room and an outdoor sitting area.

To the rear of the facility will be an aquatic amenity area with an approximately 5,000-square-foot lakeside sun deck, pool and separate spa. Adjacent to the main pool deck will be a kiddie pool with a unique splash fountain. The children’s area also will include a screened gazebo and playground.

Other recreational amenities include two lighted tennis courts, a basketball court and a nature trail through the community’s largest preserve area.

The community’s first phase consists of 99 homesites. Of these, 52 are attached villas and 47 are single-family homes.

The villa homesites are situated in the western half of the community, with approximately one-third providing views of the community’s central lake. Water views are available to approximately one-half of the single-family homesites in the eastern half of Tuscany Cove.

Tuscany Cove offers seven home designs, including two that provide optional side-entry garages. The homes range from 1,455 to 1,987 square feet of living area. Each offers a two-car garage and a screened lanai, which can be enlarged to accommodate an optional pool and/or spa. Prices start for the homes in the second phase start in the upper $200,000s, including homesite.

Each attached villa building is a single-story structure housing two homes, which share a common wall. The villa floor plan is The Hibiscus. It is a three-bedroom, optional two-bedroom with a den/two-bath design with 1,455 square feet of living area and 2,296 total square feet, including a two-car garage and a 400-square-foot covered patio and screened lanai.

Six single-family floor plans are available, including two modified designs that provide the side-entry garage.

The Juniper, a two-bedroom with a study, or optional three-bedroom/two-bath design, has 1,542 square feet of living area and 2,442 total square feet. The Orchid is a two-bedroom with a study, or three-bedroom/two-bath design with 1,558 square feet of living area and 2,441 total square feet.

The Jasmine is a three-bedroom with a study/two-bath floor plan with 1,828 square feet under air and 2,713 total square feet. The Gardenia has three bedrooms with a study and two baths with 1,987 square feet of living area and 2,886 total square feet. At the owners’ option, the study can be converted into a fourth bedroom. The Jasmine II and The Gardenia II designs each offer the side-entry garage option.

Each single-family home offers a spacious master suite with an air-conditioned walk-in closet, a cultured marble garden corner tub and a separate enclosed shower.

Features in each Tuscany Cove kitchen include a shelved pantry, European-style thermofoil cabinets with raised-panel and glass doors and adjustable shelves, solid-surface counter tops and a double-bowl cast-iron sink with a white porcelain finish, chrome faucet fixtures with a hand sprayer and a disposal. Selected floor plans offer transom windows above the kitchen cabinets.

The appliances include an electric radiant glass-top range with a self-cleaning oven, a multi-cycle dishwasher, a 20-cubic-foot side-by-side refrigerator with a door-mounted water and ice dispenser, a built-in microwave oven and a washer and dryer.

Every master bath has a cultured marble vanity top with a double sink, 36-inch European-style cabinets with raised-panel doors and a chrome and glass-enclosed shower. Both the master and secondary baths have 36-inch European-style cabinets with raised-panel doors and chrome fixtures with lever handles

Interior features include recessed lighting, a cultured marble vanity top and sink and a combination tub and shower in the second bath, vaulted ceilings and plant shelves, 8-foot sliding glass doors, marble window sills, classique wood panel and bi-fold closet doors with colonial trim and antique polished brass door hardware.

Additional features include a laundry tub, rounded wall corners in living areas, an “orange-peel” finish on wall in the kitchen and baths and a “knockdown” finish on walls and ceilings elsewhere.

Floor coverings include ceramic tile in the foyer, kitchen, utility area, baths and breakfast room and wall-to-wall carpeting in the other main living areas. The homes will include an alarm system with medical emergency, panic and fire alert buttons on the keypad. The homes will be pre-wired for high-capacity data/voice cable TV and telephone outlets and ceiling fan outlets. Each homeowner will have access to the community’s gated entry via a remote control and be allowed to monitor visitors and guests through a dedicated cable TV channel that allows access through a home telephone.

Additional structural and exterior features will include concrete block construction with steel-reinforced poured concrete columns and tie beams, steel-reinforced monolithic concrete footings and slab over a visqueen vapor barrier and protective soil treatment. Other construction features include a concrete roll tile roof with hurricane straps, engineered roof trusses, aluminum fascia, vented aluminum soffits, aluminum window and sliding glass door frames, a steel front door, a raised-panel galvanized steel overhead garage door, a high-efficiency air-conditioning system, R-30 insulation in the ceiling, an attic storage area with pull-down stairs in the garage, a brick-paver driveway and a landscaping package with an automatic sprinkler system.

Elias Brothers Communities offers a complete selection of options and upgrades through its fully-staffed design center.

Tuscany Cove will operate under the fee-simple arrangement of home ownership. Purchasers will own their home and homesite. Common area maintenance for the pool and clubhouse, other amenities, lakes, community roadways and entry, as well as lawn care will be provided by a homeowners association. The association maintenance fee will also include basic cable television service and alarm system monitoring.

The site for the community is near North Naples' schools, medical facilities, shopping areas and restaurants. It is approximately 10 miles from the public beach access at Delnor-Wiggins State Park. It is also near the county's major transportation arteries of Interstate 75, Airport-Pulling Road and U.S. 41.

Elias Brothers Communities has been involved in Naples area real estate since 1990 and has been responsible for the development, construction and sales of more than 600 homes. Collectively, its management team has nearly a century of residential and commercial construction experience, including the Victoria Shores condominiums at Victoria Lakes, North Naples, and two completed neighborhoods in the Crown Pointe subdivision, the 60 homes of the Villas of Crown Pointe and the 34 homes of Royal Villas. The firm’s first stand-alone community, the Villas at Greenwood Lake, a 33.5-acre community of 134 attached villas at Rattlesnake-Hammock and County Barn roads sold out in less than two years. Its most recent community is Ibis Cove, North Naples, whose 86.6 acres consists of 416 homes. Ibis Cove has been completed more than 18 months ahead of projections.

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