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

There may well not be an ocean around Dallas or Austin. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be able to be a Margaritaville.

Pursuing the productive start of their Latitude Margaritaville 55-and-up communities in three other spots, learn developer Minto Communities Usa and Margaritaville Holdings, singer Jimmy Buffett’s hospitality organization, are now scouting for a fourth web-site in Texas. 

Following forming a partnership in 2017, the two organizations have developed Latitude Margaritavilles in Daytona Beach front, Florida, and near Hilton Head, South Carolina, and, most not too long ago, near Panama Town Beach at Latitude Margaritaville Watersound the place they joined The St. Joe Enterprise. Minto, the builder at Margaritaville, is a builder and supervisor of homes, rental properties and commercial place with a presence in Canada and the southern United States. 

“We ended up actively looking at land [in Texas],” Minto Latitude Margaritaville Division President William Bullock informed Construction Dive. “I’ve been there a number of periods in excess of the final pair of months. My complete workforce was out in Dallas this week, as a make any difference of point. So we’re in hot pursuit.”

Constructing the Margaritaville way of life

But what about the maritime ambiance? Although the Margaritaville life-style, popularized by Buffett’s typical tune, is closely related with being close to the ocean, Bullock mentioned these energetic adult communities do not want to be located in close proximity to the water to present the amenities, which include the food, music and escapism, that is central to the model. 

In simple fact, this summer the 32-story, 234-place Margaritaville Resort Periods Sq. opened in New York Metropolis. The home involves 5 places to eat and bar solutions, like the Margaritaville Cafe, LandShark Bar & Grill and 5 o’Clock Someplace Rooftop Bar. There is also a fitness middle and Margaritaville model retail keep.

At Latitude Margaritaville, the town heart serves as the epicenter of the everyday living working experience.

“We sense extremely self-assured that we can convey the model to individuals marketplaces and not automatically have to have the seashore in your yard,” Bullock claimed. “When you go to a single of our town centers, we have swimming pools, new music in the afternoons at the bar and restaurant. We’ve got concert events at evening where all of the local community comes together. Nobody’s accomplishing that in these Texas markets. The escapism will be prosperous in those people markets without the direct link to the beach.”

And Bullock thinks a ton of Texans may want to retire at a Margaritaville Latitude. “The Metroplex in Dallas has 15 million individuals,” he said. “Houston has 10 million. There are lots of men and women who want to retire in people marketplaces.”

Sunshine State Expansion

Though Texas holds a ton of obvious attractiveness for Minto Communities and Margaritaville Holdings, the companies, together with St. Joe, even now have a ton of get the job done to do at their challenge, Latitude Margaritaville Watersound, on Northwest Florida’s Emerald Coastline in close proximity to Panama Metropolis Seashore and the Freeway 30A corridor.

In April, the developers opened 13 design houses at Latitude Margaritaville Watersound. Right now, 130 homes are underneath design and closings are anticipated to begin this thirty day period. They have bought 300 residences to day and are expecting 450 as a result of the stop of the yr.

At Latitude Margaritaville Watersound’s town middle, wherever development lately started off, the amenities include an amphitheater, a full-dimension concert stage, a jumbo monitor for concert events and flicks, tennis, pickleball courts, a fitness center with an indoor pool and spa and the Barkaritaville Canine Park. It will also contain themed dining selections which include a two-story Bar & Chill cafe overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway, Alterations in Mind-set Bar and Ignore Bar. 

“The panhandle is a leading place for retirees and the beaches are unparalleled,” Bullock explained. “We’re shut to the seaside below. You have basically bought the water at the edge of the house and that results in scenic sights like you’ve ever witnessed.”

But people 450 homes are only the tip of the iceberg. Minto Communities and Margaritaville Holdings have 3,500 units entitled at Latitude Margaritaville Watersound. The advancement sits inside St. Joe’s mammoth Bay-Walton Sector Program, encompassing around 110,500 acres and about 15 miles of frontage on the Intracoastal Waterway.

“The pure scale of the selection of entitlements that are nonetheless forward of us is not like nearly anything I have at any time observed,” Bullock explained. “Even at The Villages [retirement community in Florida], I don’t assume they are chatting about 150,000 entitlements. So we are heading to be there for a extended time. I imagine we’ve sort of bought Florida coated.”

That reported, if he had the decision, Bullock would also take the Latitude Margaritaville further more south. But that’s likely not in the playing cards in the close to future. For a enhancement to function, Bullock requirements about 1,500 to 1,700 acres for 3,000 to 3,500 units. Anything at all considerably less than that and it’s difficult to make the numbers pencil out.

“I would like to see something in South Florida,” Bullock explained. “But it is tough to uncover land that will guidance what we will need.”