Hines Taps David Weekley Homes & Ashton Woods Homes for New Tampa MPC

Hines’ master plan for Asturia community in Tampa

In Tampa, Fla., Hines, Houston-based real estate firm, has reported that Ashton Woods Homes and David Weekley Homes will build houses in Hines’ new large-scale planned community in Tampa.

Hines recently purchased 536-acre Behnke Ranch property in Tampa, on which the firm will develop a signature multi-use, large-scale planned community, will now be named Asturia.

Asturia has approved zoning and entitlements in place for the construction of 550 single-family homes, 200 townhomes, 440 multifamily units, up to 380,000 sq ft of commercial/office space, and 350,000 sq ft of office/light industrial space.

Although Hines is known as a commercial developer, the company has been active in land and community development for more than four decades, and has large-scale planned and developed approximately 36,800 residential units encompassing more than 12,000 acres of land. Several high-profile large-scale planned Hines communities in the U.S. include: Palencia in St. Augustine, FL; First Colony in Sugar Land, TX; Las Colinas in Irving, TX; Cool Springs in Franklin, TN; Aspen Highlands and Five Trees in Aspen, CO; and Deerfield in Atlanta, GA. Currently in the Southeast Region, Hines is developing the award-winning 2,400-acre Palencia community; the 314-acre Southaven community; Azure, a 308-unit multifamily community in Carillon Park in St. Petersburg, FL; Celebration Lofts, a 306-unit multifamily community in Celebration in Orlando, FL; as well as Aviva, a 276-unit residential complex in Miami.