Pine Meadows Development Begins, Two Large Projects Underway

    Two of the area's largest housing developments to date are underway and beginning to take shape. In Eustis, the former Pine Meadows golf course is being converted into a development of over 500 homes, and in Umatilla, a former fernery off CR 450A is seeing site work undertaken that will serve as the first phase of a nearly 500-home development.
   The Pine Meadows site has seen a variety of utility products delivered, as heavy equipment moves dirt from one end of the 240-acre site to the other. With just over 92 acres of wetlands, the site is located between Eustis and Umatilla on Pine Meadows Golf Course Road just north of the CR 44 intersection with SR 19. This development envisions 548 single-family residences.
   In Umatilla, Magnolia Pointe sits on 315 acres, with 178 acres housing 477 homes once the development is fully built out.