{"id":132674,"date":"2026-01-26T21:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/132674\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T21:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:48:13","slug":"builder-buys-53-townhouse-sites-in-st-pete-waterfront-development-for-12m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/132674\/","title":{"rendered":"Builder buys 53 townhouse sites in St. Pete waterfront development for $12M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h898384-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">Mattamy Homes has bought 53 townhouse sites in St. Petersburg\u2019s Amara Bay Residences &amp; Marina master-planned community currently under construction.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h898384-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">The sites at 12000 Gandy Blvd. sold for $12.64 million.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h898384-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">Collier, which brokered the deal and announced the sale, says in a statement that the lots are fully entitled and approved as part of the master-planned community.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h898384-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">Construction of the townhouses is expected to begin in coming weeks with sales starting in the summer.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h898384-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">Mattamy Homes, Collier says in a statement, will develop two townhome designs with two stories of living space. They will range from 2,371 square feet to 2,470 square feet with three to four bedrooms, two-and-a-half baths and two-car garages. Pricing is expected to start in the $700,000s.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h898384-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">Amara Bay is a 39-acre mixed-use development just as you come into Pinellas County from the Gandy Bridge.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h898384-p7\" class=\"permalinkable\">It is being developed by the Miami firm Key Development, which sold the lots to Mattamy Homes.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h898384-p8\" class=\"permalinkable\">Plans for the master-planned community call for 415 luxury apartments, a 150-slip marina, an 8,000-square-foot restaurant and 3,000 feet of walkable waterfront. Other amenities will include two pools, a clubhouse and a boardwalk with fitness paths and a kayak launch.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h898384-p9\" class=\"permalinkable\">Key Development, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessobserverfl.com\/news\/2025\/oct\/18\/developer-loan-st-pete-project\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">which secured a $120 million construction loan last year<\/a>, began work on the project in 2024 with the first buildings are expected to be done later this year.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h898384-p10\" class=\"permalinkable\">Mark Eilers of Colliers represented Key International in the sale.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mattamy Homes has bought 53 townhouse sites in St. Petersburg\u2019s Amara Bay Residences &amp; Marina master-planned community currently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-132674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}