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The San Leon apartments were featured in a special report in Florida Trend Magazine titled “Sanford the Gateway City | For Growth, Opportunity and Fun.” As an example of “Gateway to Growth” the report includes the following excerpt: “Since the razing of the San Leon hotel way back in 1917, no new structures ad been…

San Leon Apartments Completes New Mural to Promote Florida Wildlife Corridor Lakeview Oak, the developer of the San Leon apartments in historic downtown Sanford, announced the completion of a new large-scale mural on the exterior of the new upscale 10-unit complex at 201 Sanford Avenue. The community art project was started in late September and…

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Celebrates Completion of San Leon Apartments   SANFORD, Fla. – The first new residential building in Downtown Sanford is open after more than 50 years. Mayor Art Woodruff was there Tuesday for the ribbon cutting of the San Leon Apartments. He said that Sanford is growing. “This just validates that.…

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony Celebrates Completion of San Leon Apartments Lakeview Oak celebrated the completion of the San Leon, the new three-story mixed-use development in historic downtown Sanford, with a Ribbon Cutting ceremony on Tuesday, October 19 for approximately 50 guests. This is the first new residential build in Sanford’s downtown core in 50+ years. The…

By Steve Paradis / October 16, 2021   Foxtail Coffee Announced as Commercial Tenant at San Leon  After breaking ground in July 2020, the new San Leon Building at the corner of Sanford Avenue and 2nd Street is set to open this week with 10 apartments and an announcement that Foxtail Coffee will open a…

Ten social benefits of walkable places We shape our cities and then they shape us. Winston Churchill insightfully said of architecture, “we shape our buildings and thereafter they shape us.” That statement is even more true of communities and urban planning. Cities and towns are architecture writ large. Their assembly, often involving thousands of buildings,…

How a Florida beach town changed how we live 12 Ways that Seaside revolutionized how we think about cities and towns. By Jay Walljasper A town built from scratch in the 1980s ignited a revolution in how we design and build communities. With pedestrian-friendly streets, congenial gathering spots and appealing traditional architecture, Seaside on Florida’s…

In historic downtown Sanford, Florida, it’s been decades since a new residential development has been built. And for Lakeview Oak principal Dan Matthews, it was an exhaustive search to find the perfect location among the tree-lined brick streets for the company’s inaugural project. The San Leon is a mixed-use, three-story building with 10 modern residences…

What is New Urbanism? New Urbanism is a planning and development approach that focuses on human-scale urban design based on the principles of how cities and towns had been built for the last several centuries featuring walkable blocks and streets, housing and shopping in close proximity, and accessible public spaces. Conceived by urban planners Andrés…

JULY 8-11, 2020 Growth Explosion to Continue with Mixed-Use Concept Adjacent to Sanford’s ‘Famous L’ By Steve Paradis Herald Staff Officials broke ground on the San Leon development at the corner of 2nd Street and Sanford Avenue early Tuesday, the first downtown residential building in more than a decade. Tuesday marked almost three years to…