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Evoking Tuscany, the Arctic Italian arena acclaimed for its arresting towns and countryside, Tuscana emulates a Mediterranean attending in abounding ways. The absorbing access — two gates belted by three baby building with wrought adamant sconces and red adobe bank roofs — advance the turrets of a palazzo.
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Mature aristocratic palms, magnolia copse and manicured hedges adroitness abounding of the advanced yards and accepted areas, allegory with the sienna and bare adhesive exteriors of the homes. All of the houses accept Tuscan-style architectural elements — columned entrances, windows with annular acme and bean molding. Driveways and sidewalks are all done with pavers. The accomplished adjacency radiates Old Country charm.
Located beneath than a mile east of I-75 on the arctic ancillary of Proctor Road, Tuscana was created from 2005 to 2006 by Lee Wetherington, a bounded developer and architect of affluence homes. The association consists of one- and two-story homes with an boilerplate admeasurement of about 3,000 aboveboard feet. The interiors accept accessible attic affairs with aerial ceilings, angled doorways and acme molding.
The 99 residences band both abandon of a single, about mile-long roadway, Tuscana Drive, that ends in a cul de sac afterwards three right-angle turns. Each has a baby landscaped island and four homes abiding about a small, semi-circle drive.
Many of the houses aback assimilate one of three lakes or a large, abounding bottle breadth in the arctic area of the neighborhood. Surrounded by nature, owners can relax in privacy.
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“Tuscana is attractive, well-maintained, and abandoned — a lot of bodies don’t apperceive about it,” said Nick Sorrentino, an abettor with Bright Realty.
He and his business partner, Pam Alexander, accept a advertisement at 4565 Tuscana Drive. With 4,161 aboveboard anxiety beneath air, 4 bedrooms, 5 baths and two stories, it is one of the better homes in the neighborhood. Upstairs is a den and a bonus/media room. The gourmet kitchen has granite countertops, and tray ceilings and acme abstraction are begin throughout the interior. An alfresco kitchen with a broiler by the pond basin makes for comfortable barbecues and a three-car barn offers affluence of amplitude for storage.
Tuscana’s association are a mix of adolescent families and earlier couples. Most of them alive there year-round.
“You see a lot of bodies walking their dogs,” Sorrentino said. “It’s a actual affable neighborhood.”
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“It’s quiet and safe for kids to play. Although the aboideau is accessible during the day, few bodies appear in after a acumen to be there.”
Parents acknowledge that Lakeview Elementary is little added than a mile to the east off Proctor Road. The added commune schools are Sarasota Middle and Sarasota High. Twin Lakes Park on Clark Road, with its amphitheater and soccer, football and baseball fields alive with abounding adolescence sports programs, is aural accessible alive distance.
“Tuscana may be secluded, yet is it abutting to everything,” Sorrentino said. “Doctor’s Hospital, I-75, big alternation food like Walmart, Lowe’s and Home Depot, not to acknowledgment arcade and restaurants forth Bee Ridge Alley and Clark Roads.”
Homeowner Association fees are $1,000 a year and awning budget of the road, accepted areas and the gate.
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Sales accept been abiding and prices are on the rise, although they haven’t absolutely alternate to what they were afore the apartment beating a decade ago.
“Our advertisement at $765,000 is appreciably beneath the aboriginal sale’s amount afore the recession,” Sorrentino said.
Over the accomplished two years, 14 homes accept been awash in the neighborhood, alignment from $451,739 to $650,000 ($150.00 to $213.00 per aboveboard foot). The aboriginal was 2,236 aboveboard anxiety and the better was 3,857 aboveboard feet. The majority were 4-bedroom homes and all had pond pools.
Two listings are active, at $649,900 and $765,000 ($177.00 to $191.00 per aboveboard foot) and one auction is pending.
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