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SunWest Harbourtowne a dream awaiting a dreamer with big bucks

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Entrepreneur developers rejoice — the most “amazing,” and possibly last-ever great waterfront development opportunity on the west coast of Florida is still on the table. All you need is $100 million. According to Suncoast News, that’s the asking price for the SunWest Harbourtowne property, more than a thousand acres of the former SunWest Mines property on the Gulf off Aripeka Road in Hudson. The next-door neighbor is Pasco County’s SunWest Park, a white-sand beach with championship beach volleyball courts, concessions and a water adventure park with obstacle course and zip lines. A few folks recently got the idea the project is beginning, citing signs on the property stating things like, “Future Site of…” and “SunWest Harbourtowne Marina Coming Soon.” Not so, according to Realtor Buddy Selph with Tommie Dawson Realty in Hernando County, the listing agency for the property. The signs, he said, are there to inform potential buyers that county and state approval for much of the project is in hand. The “entitlements” include 1,071 private acres and more than 2,500 of state preservation land, 2,500 residential units, 300,000 square feet of commercial, 50,000 square feet of office space, a 250-room resort hotel, an 18-hole golf course and a marina on a canal leading to the Gulf with 350 wet slips and 150 dry slips. All that wraps and winds around several spring-fed freshwater lakes. “There’s nothing like it left on the entire west coast,” said Selph of the property, adding it is a “tremendous opportunity” with “lots of possibilities.” But first someone, some company or group will have to step up. Many area environmentalists and anglers have voiced concern about the boat traffic Harbourtowne would bring to Filman Bayou, a pristine backwater that boats coming from a marina would have to pass through on their way to the Gulf. Much of that concern is over the potential environmental impacts of dredging. “It wasn’t a proposal to dredge a channel,” said Selph, who described the work as limited to a portion of the existing 90-foot-wide canal where the bottom humps up before it enters the bayou. The hump would make it difficult for some boats to pass on low tide. There are sea grasses in the portion that need work, said Selph, and as far as Florida is concerned, “sea grass is the holy grail of the environment.” Aerial photos and videos, as well as concept artwork that shows what a few million more on top could make happen, are online at www.tommiedawson.com.

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