Chipley Kiwanis Club Weekly Luncheon - Tuesday,
February 9,
2010
Contributed by Jim Town, Kiwanis Club Publicity
Committee
Kiwanis Briefed On Upcoming Events at Spring
Ridge
At
the weekly club luncheon on Tuesday, February 9, the
Kiwanis Club received a briefing on upcoming events
at the new Spring Ridge community on the east side
of Sunny Hills. The presentation was made by Mike
Flaskey, Senior Vice President of Business
Development, and Brad Smedberg, Director of Sales &
Marketing, for Spring Ridge Development, LLC.
The first phase at Spring Ridge in Washington County
will consist of 263 home sites around the community
amenities center, which includes a pool, lighted
tennis, meeting rooms, exercise facilities.
Additionally, property owners will have access to a
Beach Club at the Sugar Sands Inn & Suites on the
Gulf of Mexico. Construction of the roads,
infrastructure and amenities for Phase I is
scheduled for completion in early 2011. Spring
Ridge has its main sales center at Pier Park on
Panama City Beach (100 Bluefish Drive, Suite 103),
and will open during February a Sales Gallery at
5201 Hwy 77, just south of Shenandoah Blvd, adjacent
to the south side of Sunny Hills. The focus of
Spring Ridge is to sell lot and home packages, and
financing is available to help attract new residents
to Washington County. For more information, go the
www.SpringRidgeFlorida.com
or contact the Spring Ridge Sales Center at 877)
301-7737.
The community is being developed by Spring Ridge
Development, LLC. The team at Spring Ridge
Development, LLC has over one hundred years of
combined development experience. Most recently, the
team has been instrumental in the development of
Lake Nona, one of the premiere new communities in
Central Florida. Lake Nona is a 7,000 acre master
planned community in southeast Orlando and is
anchored by a burgeoning “Medical City” with the
University of Central Florida College of Medicine,
Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute, a
University of Florida Academic and Research Center,
a Veterans Affairs hospital, and Nemours Children’s
Hospital. Spring Ridge Development, LLC is owned by
the Tavistock Group, based in Orlando. For further
information about the Tavistock Group, go to
www.tavistock.com.
Mr.
Flaskey emphasized that Spring Ridge is part of a
long-term commitment to Washington County and that
the company will become involved in community
activities as a corporate policy and through its 30
to 50 new employees that will be part of the
development and marketing projects.
The
Kiwanis Club of Chipley is in its 69th
year of providing support to youth oriented events
and programs and last year supported 36
organizations throughout the county. The club meets
Tuesdays at Pattillo’s Restaurant in the middle of
the Washington-Holmes County Technical Center (WHTC)
at Noon. For an invitation to lunch, contact any
Kiwanian or call Mark Collins, Membership
Chairperson, at (850) 258-9453.
