Lennar files for 546 homes in Sunbridge

Lennar is coming to Sunbridge. The builder has filed a preliminary subdivision plan with Osceola County for a 546-home neighborhood on three parcels south of Jack Brack Road, across from Del Webb Sunbridge, as reported by GrowthSpotter on Wednesday. The plan covers 245 acres in four phases, with 116 homes and an amenity center in the first.

Vol. 27 walked through the four builders Tavistock added to Weslyn Park last month and the prices they posted. What’s new is a fifth builder on the Osceola side of Sunbridge, and it’s a different kind of builder. Lennar builds for volume. It sells on a package it markets as Everything’s Included, putting features other builders price as upgrades into the base price.

That model is the story, because of where this side of Sunbridge is priced today. Vol. 27 put the entry point for new construction in Weslyn Park at about $500,000, set by M/I Homes bungalows with quick move-ins from $500,000 to $640,000. Perry Homes starts at $730,000, and ICI’s customs run to $922,000. For a reference point on Lennar, GrowthSpotter reported its homes at Bridgewalk in St. Cloud selling from $470,990 to $726,490 in 2024. That number is two years old and from a different neighborhood. It tells you where Lennar has priced nearby, not where it will price here.

I’m not putting a Sunbridge price in print until Lennar opens sales. What I can tell you is what each outcome means. If Lennar opens under $500,000, the Osceola side of Sunbridge gets a new floor, and Weslyn Park’s entry tier gets a direct competitor inside the same master plan. If Lennar opens at or above that line, the builder is pricing to the Sunbridge address instead of bringing its usual price point, and that tells you what builders think the name is worth. Either answer is useful. Neither is in yet.

Who this matters to right now: anyone touring Weslyn Park’s bungalow tier. If you’re already under contract, nothing changes. If you’re still shopping, the day Lennar posts a price is the day your leverage with every other builder in Sunbridge gets clearer, in one direction or the other. Four phases also means 546 more homes feeding the roads around Del Webb over the next several years, and a filing is the earliest point anyone can see that coming.

Simpson Road is four lanes to Boggy Creek

Osceola County cut the ribbon Monday on the Simpson Road North project, which rebuilt Simpson Road from two lanes to a divided four-lane road between Marisol Loop and Myers Road, per the county. It was the last and longest segment of the widening between U.S. 192 and Boggy Creek Road. The job cost $73.2 million, finished a shared-use path on both sides of the corridor, and came in 241 days ahead of schedule.

Simpson Road sits west of this newsletter’s core map, on the Kissimmee side. It earns the space because of where it ends. Boggy Creek Road is the spine Vol. 8 tracked filling in from Lake Nona south toward Austin-Tindall, and Simpson is now a four-lane way onto it from U.S. 192.

The budget read matters more than the pavement. Vol. 26 reported a county commissioner warning that roads under Amendment 3 might come down to a ditch and a white line, and Vol. 28 reported nearly $92 million in capital projects postponed in the adopted budget. A finished road is the other side of that ledger. Projects already under contract kept moving, and this one beat its deadline by about eight months. The Nov. 3 risk sits on the projects that haven’t started.

What to watch over the next 30 days

Nov. 3: Amendment 3, the Osceola school mill, and St. Cloud’s Seat 5 runoff between Alex Rodriguez and Kirk Zilke, per the Osceola News-Gazette.

Lennar’s Sunbridge pricing, whenever sales open. It’s the number this issue’s lead turns on, and I’ll report it the week it posts.

Woodline: the 60-day construction window Vol. 27 reported closes in mid-November on Sunbridge’s Orlando side.

Also on my radar

The Boggy Creek Road sports dome. All Sports Dome Southeast had a pre-application meeting scheduled the week of Oct. 5 with Osceola’s Development Review Committee, per GrowthSpotter, as Vol. 30 noted. Evidence: a scheduled meeting. I’ve found no outcome and no filing since. This is the last time it runs without one.

Chad