Brian Bandell
Aug 8, 2024
Lennar Corp. (NYSE: LEN) is seeking approval for a for-sale townhouse development in Wilton Manors.
The city’s Development Review Committee will consider the rezoning and site plan applications for the 5-acre property at 1550 N.E. 26th St. on Aug. 13. The Miami-based homebuilder has the site, which is mostly a parking lot, under contract from Sunny Isles Beach-based UDC Manors LLC.
Lennar wants to rezone the property from “community facility” and “single-family” to “planned unit development residential.”
Its site plan calls for 50 townhouses and 151 parking spaces, including a garage space for each home. There would be a dog park but not a clubhouse or a pool.
The townhouses would range from 1,452 square feet to 2,289 square feet, each with a balcony. There would be two-story units with three bedrooms, two-story units with four bedrooms, and three-story units with three bedrooms plus a playroom, extra half-bathroom and terrace with a grill on the top floor.
According to the developer’s traffic study, the townhouse project would generate 337 daily vehicle trips.
Officials with Lennar couldn’t be reached for comment. Doral-based Pascual Perez Kiliddjian Starr Architects & Planners designed the project.
In 2022, a different developer filed plans to build 250 apartments in six stories on this site, but those plans did not come to fruition.
Lennar is the largest homebuilder in South Florida. It usually builds communities with hundreds of homes, but Broward County has few large tracts of land available for development, so Lennar has to settle for projects with dozens of homes. Given the rising housing prices in Broward, it still makes sense to build those smaller projects.