Solivita® celebrates milestone 3,000th closing
April 24, 2007
Over the past seven years, Avatar® Properties Inc. and its award-winning active-adult community of Solivita® have had lots to celebrate. The most recent cause for celebration was the community’s milestone 3,000th closing.
What makes the landmark closing all the more interesting is just four months ago the happy homeowner, Susan Michaelsen, was living in Bridgewater, NJ and had no plans to move.
“A good friend of mine was researching Florida on the internet when a friend of hers from the United Kingdom suggested she look at Solivita® because ‘There’s no place like it’,” said Michaelsen, a retired manager and designer of software program for telephone companies.
“My friend and her husband visited Solivita® last December, and when her husband couldn’t make a return trip in January, she asked me if I’d like to go along to keep her company,” Michaelsen said.
“We spent three days looking at different homes and liked everything we saw. What’s funny is I wound up buying a home and she’s still in the process of looking,” said Michaelsen, who purchased an inventory home in the Solivita® neighborhood of Venezia.
“The 3,000th closing in seven years is quite an accomplishment and certainly demonstrates that we’ve successfully created an extraordinary lifestyle and living environment for our residents and active adults seeking a special place to call home,” said Rick Woodley, vice president and general manager for Solivita® which has posted over 3,300 sales since opening in 2001.
Avatar® presented Michaelsen with a Solivita® Sunny Award commemorating the event, a dozen roses, and a $100 gift certificate to Bed Bath & Beyond.
More about Solivita®
Winner of nearly 70 major marketing and design awards, including Builder magazine’s Grand Award as America’s Best Active Adult Community, Solivita® has twice been named one of America’s 100 Best Master-Planned Communities for active adults, 55 years and better, by Where to Retire magazine.
Located on over 4,000 acres in northeast Polk County, Solivita® is being developed around a Tuscan-inspired Village Center which includes the award-winning, 32,000 sq. ft. Riviera Spa & Fitness Center, Mosaics restaurant, the Starlight Ballroom, Upper Crust Pizza in the Gateway Cafe, and The Grille at Stonegate.
Solivita® offers a total of 20 detached single-family plans in five collections at base prices from the $170s to mid-$400s, and four attached single-family plans at base prices from the low $200s to $300s.
Amenities include two 18-hole championship golf courses at the Stonegate Golf Club, eight lighted tennis and five lighted pickle-ball courts, a championship-caliber softball diamond, and a host of other social and recreational amenities designed for individual and group activities.
The Palms, an upscale amenity complex currently under construction and scheduled to open sometime in 2008, is planned to include a 19,000 sq. ft. clubhouse with state-of-the-art fitness center, aerobics studio, residents’ business center, members’ club room, catering/staging kitchen, and large multi-purpose room.
Planned outdoor amenities are a 4,000 sq. ft. heated lap and splash pool, two heated whirlpool spas, two lighted DecoTurf II tennis courts, two lighted boccie courts, four lighted pickle-ball courts, a large pavered deck illuminated for nighttime use and events, a fireplace piazza, and social gathering deck.
For more information, contact a Solivita® sales associate at (800) 592-6099 or log onto Solivita’s web site at www.solivita.com.
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Pursuant to the Fair Housing Act, housing within Solivita® is intended for occupancy by at least one person 55 years of age or older per home, although a limited number of residents may be younger, but no one under 18 years of age may be in permanent residence. Association assessments, club membership fees and additional fees for golf required. Home designs, specifications, features, materials and price may change without prior notice. Not an offer in states and jurisdictions where prior registration is required and void where prohibited by law. Contractor license #QB1224.
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