Lennar is moving forward with plans to build a 146-unit townhome community in south Miami-Dade County. The development, named Villas De San Diego, will be located on a 12-acre parcel at the southeast corner of Southwest 355th Street and Southwest 192nd Avenue. The site, which is currently an avocado orchard, sits near the Navy Wells Pineland Preserve.
According to filings submitted by Lennar to Miami-Dade County, the project has evolved since its initial proposal in 2023 for 137 townhomes. Approval was granted last year for the current plan of 146 homes. Lennar recently filed additional subdivision improvement documents with county officials.
The new community will feature two-story townhomes with prices starting in the high $300,000s, as stated on Lennar’s website.
Ownership of the land belongs to TPG Angelo Gordon, a New York-based private equity firm that acquired the property for $12.3 million in May through an affiliate. TPG Angelo Gordon serves as a land bank for Lennar by purchasing and holding sites until construction is ready to begin. This arrangement allows Lennar to secure future development sites while keeping them off its balance sheet until acquisition from TPG Angelo Gordon.
Lennar holds a leading position among residential developers in south Miami-Dade. Over the past five years, it has completed approximately 8,430 single-family homes and townhomes in the area—about 70 percent of all homes finished during that period—and is responsible for developing around 60 percent of housing currently under construction there.
Founded by Leonard Miller in the 1950s and now led by co-CEOs Jon Jaffe and Stuart Miller (Leonard Miller’s son), Lennar ranks as the second largest homebuilder nationwide.
In addition to Villas De San Diego, Lennar has other projects planned nearby. These include Century Parc Villas North—a complex of 125 townhomes at 35655 Southwest 192nd Avenue—and an upcoming Redland project featuring 88 homes on a 31-acre site at Southwest 288th Street and Krome Avenue that will include some model homes produced using 3D printing technology. Near Homestead, another proposal calls for building 106 townhomes—including units priced for workforce housing—on a vacant ten-acre lot at Southwest 338th Street and Southwest 192nd Avenue.
