Tampa-based Metro Development Group has opened its Diamond Springs master-planned community in West Jacksonville, where plans call for 2,700 single-family residences and town homes centered by a lagoon.
The group describes the development as Duval County’s first lagoon community, saying in a news release that Diamond Springs “offers a lifestyle unlike any other in the region, bringing a unique blend of leisure, nature, and modern living.”
The community is at Normandy Boulevard and Bright Lagoon Boulevard near the Winchester Ridge subdivision, about 4 1/2 miles west of Cecil Airport. The first model home in Diamond Springs opened on Oct. 9, according to the release.
Metro Development says homebuilders in the community will be DRB Homes, Dream Finders Homes, D.R. Horton and Lennar. The model home is by Dream Finders…