SunWest Harbortowne

------Hudson, Florida------

Large new subdivisions have sprang up all over Hudson, but one is unique in that it is located on the coastline, making it a brand new waterfront community. But that is not all- this same community will employ some of the better features of 'new-urbanism', which plays into making America a better place to live through vitalizing its localities... at the local level. SunWest Harbortowne is going to have a downtown built right into it, accessible to both residents of the neighborhood and the general public at large. It will at once revive the old Hudson downtown (which no longer exists-see history), and provide a new node, balancing the Hudson Beach and its commerce district. This community-oriented approach is exactly at the heart of getting back to the basics of American social living- through thoughtful provision of public space. SunWest Harbortowne is now passing its blueprint stage and is negotiating through the daunting and restrictive legal paperwork, in order to obtain clearance for the features of the future community. Please see the map below for some of these features:

As can be seen on this map, this large subdivision will be located north of Sea Pines on Old Dixie, stretching to Aripeka. The red area in the center of the color indicates the planned downtown and seaport- shopping district. At the same time, the light green belt to its south on Old Dixie is a waterfront county park, that will be executed by the Pasco Government to enhance the Hudson seaboard. The light and dark green areas on the map are conservation, marshland and wildlife habitats, from Sea Pines up. Yellow areas are residential developments. All in all, the community will contain over 2,670 new residences (quite a statistic considering Hudson has 3,465 canal/waterfront properties in total, from Sea Pines down to Leisure Beach. Harbortowne's hotel and conference center will attract businessmen and business itself to the area, as well as give Hudson's mercantile community a focus. Interestingly, statistics from Sun West concerning the importance of golf for local economies rings true in the case of the Hudson area, where Harbortowne will add a 5th golf course to the four we already have: Beacon Woods, The Links (in Fairway Oaks), Heritage Pines and Meadow Oaks. Rounding out Hudson's selection of courses with a 5th, all within a five mile radius, will make this one of the primary places to golf. From the website: Over 58 million rounds of golf are played in Florida a year, 33% by out of state visitors, 14% by non-local Florida residents and the remaining 54% by local people.

This is not the first huge project Hudson has seen. The very beach itself, at the end of Clark St., was the brainchild of a developer and his friends, as were the canals. Gulf Island was a major project of the 1980s, while the Port Hudson Marina began its large redevelopment later, in 2002. Hudson's heart and soul boils down to the positive interaction and control of its natural setting, amid swamp and reed. SunWest will begin building in 2009. Because it is an entire new district of Hudson, it will take about 9 years to place the last brick in the last building. Please see the SunWest website for more detailed information and to get in on what promises to be the finest new neighborhood one can find- one that has a history even before being built.

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