Approved in Daytona Beach, FL
Avalon Park Daytona Beach
8,818 approved homes on about 2,760 acres west of I-95
On May 20, 2026 the Daytona Beach City Commission approved Avalon Park Daytona Beach in three unanimous votes: 8,818 residential units and more than a million square feet of non-residential space on roughly 2,760 acres, with over 700 acres of environmentally sensitive land preserved. It is the largest residential entitlement in this market. No homebuilder has been named, no floor plan released, and no price exists. Nothing has been released to the public yet.
- Location
- Daytona Beach, FL
- Homes
- 8,818 approved
- Site
- ~2,760 acres
- Phase 1
- 2,032 units
At a glance
Avalon Park Daytona Beach fast facts: approved May 2026
Here is what is on the public record today and what has not been released. The approved figures come from the City Commission action of May 20, 2026 and the contemporaneous coverage of it. Anything marked not yet released, join the interest list and it goes out the day it drops.
- City
- Daytona Beach, FL
- County
- Volusia County
- Site
- About 2,760 acres
- Approved plan
- 8,818 residential units
- Phase 1
- 2,032 units plus 90,000 sf mixed-use
- Non-residential
- 1,091,150 square feet
- Conservation
- 700+ acres preserved
- Status
- Approved by City Commission May 20, 2026
- Master developer
- Avalon Park Group
- Home builder
- Not yet announcedGet notified
- Home types and sizes
- Not yet releasedGet notified
- Pricing
- Not yet releasedGet notified
- Model home opening
- Not yet announcedGet notified
- HOA and CDD
- Not yet releasedGet notified
Where it is
West of I-95 and south of State Road 40 / West Granada Boulevard, in the North Tymber Creek Road area. Tiger Bay State Forest to the west, Hunter Ridge and Ormond Beach to the north, Latitude Margaritaville to the south. Inside Daytona Beach city limits despite being physically closer to Ormond Beach. No street addresses yet.
The biggest approval in the market, and no builder yet
8,818 homes approved unanimously, and there is no builder page, no floor plans, no model and no published pricing. Add your name, email and phone and you will hear the moment a builder is announced or a phase is priced, and be registered as represented before your first visit.
About the plan
What was actually approved
On May 20, 2026, the Daytona Beach City Commission approved Avalon Park Daytona Beach in three unanimous votes covering the rezoning of roughly 2,760 acres to a planned development, an annexation of about 28 acres, and a small-scale comprehensive plan amendment. It had cleared the Planning Board four weeks earlier on April 23, where the comprehensive plan amendment passed unanimously and the rezoning passed 6 to 1.
The approved program is 8,818 residential units and 1,091,150 square feet of non-residential space, with more than 700 acres of environmentally sensitive land preserved. Phase 1 is 2,032 units plus 90,000 square feet of mixed-use. Reported buildout horizons vary between fifteen and thirty years depending on which outlet you read, which is a fair reflection of how uncertain a project of this size is.
Waivers granted with the rezoning included reducing the I-95 buffer from 50 feet to 30 feet, reducing zero-lot-line lot minimums to 2,880 square feet, and modified mixed-use setbacks, parking and signage.
One thing we will not publish: a breakdown of the 8,818 units by housing type. You may find a 5,000 multifamily plus 1,650 attached plus 3,350 detached split quoted elsewhere. That traces to a 2020 press release describing a 10,000-unit plan that was subsequently cut and redesigned. It does not describe what was approved in 2026. When we cannot source a number to the actual approval, we leave it out rather than dress up an old one.
What this actually becomes
Avalon Park Group has built this before, three times
An 8,818-home approval on raw land is an abstraction. The useful question is what the same developer’s finished work looks like, and in this case there is a real answer.
Avalon Park Group was founded in 1995 by Beat Kahli, a Swiss former investment banker who is still President and CEO. Its first community, Avalon Park in east Orlando, began in 1998 and is organized as villages arranged around a walkable downtown. The Clock Tower that anchors that town center went up in 2000, with four-story mixed-use buildings added in 2002 and 2005; today it holds retail, restaurants, offices, banks, a YMCA and apartments, and the surrounding area is served by schools that carry the Avalon name. The company went on to develop Avalon Park Wesley Chapel, where sales began in 2011, and Avalon Park Tavares, launched in 2021.
The stated model is “live, learn, work, play” — a town center first, neighborhoods around it. That is the pattern to expect here, and it is reflected in the approval, which reserves land for a charter school, a police substation and a fire substation.
A caution on the track record: the company’s own materials give two very different sizes for Avalon Park Orlando, 1,860 acres on its history page and 9,400 acres on its corporate page. We are not going to pick one and present it as fact. The shape of what they build is well documented; the acreage claims are not consistent.
Location and open questions
West of I-95, and what is not settled
Avalon Park Daytona Beach sits west of Interstate 95 and south of State Road 40 / West Granada Boulevard, in the North Tymber Creek Road area. Tiger Bay State Forest is immediately west, Hunter Ridge and Ormond Beach are north, and Latitude Margaritaville is immediately south. The land is inside Daytona Beach city limits even though it is physically closer to Ormond Beach, which is the detail most coverage gets wrong.
Latitude Margaritaville next door is the most useful market signal on this page. That community sold out more than five years ahead of its own projections. Whatever you think of the concept, it demonstrated that this specific stretch of land west of I-95 will absorb large-scale master-planned housing far faster than its developer expected.
The roads come first
The approval carries a road obligation reported at $120 to $125 million: Avalon Park Boulevard from SR-40 to Tymber Creek Road, two lanes of Tymber Creek Road itself, and a new cut-through connecting SR-40 to LPGA Boulevard. Infrastructure for each phase must be complete before the next phase proceeds, and Phase 1 infrastructure must be finished within five years of the first certificate of occupancy. Booth Road may not be used for construction traffic.
Three things that are not settled
Water and sewer. Avalon Park Group sued both Ormond Beach and Daytona Beach in June 2025 over water and wastewater service, and applied through Avalon Park Utilities, LLC to operate its own utility in Volusia County. It voluntarily dismissed the suit without prejudice on August 6, 2026, citing productive collaboration, but no final service arrangement has been announced and “without prejudice” means it can be refiled.
Traffic. It was the dominant objection at both hearings, from residents and from the Planning Board member who voted no. The phased-infrastructure condition exists because of it.
Timing. Beat Kahli said the goal was to start building houses within twelve to eighteen months of the May 2026 approval. This project previously targeted a 2021 groundbreaking, was cut from 10,000 units to 7,878, and was retargeted to 2025. None of those happened. We would rather tell you that than sell you a date.
We do not publish drive times to the Speedway, the airport, the outlets or the beach, because Avalon Park Daytona Beach has no assigned address or coordinates yet and any figure would be invented precision.
Market context
What new construction costs in Daytona Beach
Avalon Park Daytona Beach has no price yet. Here is the market it will price into.
Daytona Beach’s citywide median sale price was $314,829 as of June 2026, up 0.4% year over year, with a median 77 days on market across 395 sales. New construction prices above that: Mosaic by ICI Homes, the nearest comparable master-planned community in Daytona Beach, advertises from about $440,900 across roughly 1,650 to 3,999 square feet as of August 2026. Those are advertised starting figures and they move.
Two Florida-specific costs deserve attention before you budget. The first is the CDD. Most large Central Florida new construction is financed through a Community Development District, and the assessment lands on your annual tax bill on top of HOA dues. Whether Avalon Park Daytona Beach will carry one, and at what level, has not been published. Anyone quoting you a figure today is guessing.
The second is property tax. The land is inside Daytona Beach city limits, where the total combined millage was 18.0498 mills for 2025 final, with 18.3128 mills proposed on the 2026 working roll. That total already bundles the city, Volusia County, the School Board, Halifax Hospital, the St. Johns River Water Management District and several smaller districts; a CDD assessment, if any, would be additional and appears separately as a non-ad-valorem line. Florida has no state income tax, which is often what brings relocating buyers to run these numbers in the first place.
What you need to know
Buying new construction, the smart way
Whoever ends up building the homes at Avalon Park Daytona Beach, the same rule applies: the person at the model’s sales desk works for the builder, not for you. They are usually helpful and usually honest, and they still represent the seller’s side of the transaction. You are allowed, and smart, to have your own representation, and in almost every case it costs you nothing, because the builder budgets a cooperating commission into the deal whether you bring an agent or not.
The catch is timing. Most builders require your agent to register you on your first visit. Tour or sign in alone and bring an agent later, and the builder can refuse to recognize them, and you lose your representation for that community. Get connected before you tour, have your agent register you, and let them read the contract, the addenda, and, in Florida, the CDD disclosure.
On a phased community of 8,818 homes there is a second advantage to being on the list early: the first release in each new phase usually carries the best homesites and the most pricing flexibility. That window opens once per phase and closes quickly.
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Questions and answers
Avalon Park Daytona Beach FAQ
What is Avalon Park Daytona Beach?
Avalon Park Daytona Beach is an approved master-planned community on roughly 2,760 acres in Daytona Beach, FL. The City Commission approved it on May 20, 2026 in three unanimous votes covering the rezoning, an annexation and a small-scale comprehensive plan amendment. The approved program is 8,818 residential units and 1,091,150 square feet of non-residential space, with more than 700 acres of environmentally sensitive land preserved. Phase 1 is 2,032 units plus 90,000 square feet of mixed-use. It is the largest residential entitlement in the Daytona Beach market.
Where exactly is Avalon Park Daytona Beach?
This is the single most misreported thing about the project, so read carefully. It is west of Interstate 95 and south of State Road 40 / West Granada Boulevard, in the North Tymber Creek Road area. It borders Tiger Bay State Forest to the west, Hunter Ridge and Ormond Beach to the north, and Latitude Margaritaville to the south. Geographically that puts it between Ormond Beach and Daytona Beach, closer to Ormond, even though the land sits inside Daytona Beach city limits. It is not near the Speedway, the beach or the LPGA Boulevard corridor as those exist today. A new cut-through connecting SR-40 to LPGA Boulevard is part of the approved road program, but that road has not been built.
Who is building the homes?
No homebuilder has been publicly announced for Avalon Park Daytona Beach. We searched the national builders, the developer's own materials and the news coverage and found nothing. Avalon Park Group is the master developer, and on its previous communities it has worked with builder partners announced by phase after horizontal work is under way. That announcement is exactly what the interest list exists to catch.
Who is Avalon Park Group?
Avalon Park Group was founded in 1995 by Beat Kahli, a Swiss national and former investment banker who serves as President and CEO; Ross Halle is Senior Vice President. The company is headquartered in Orlando with offices in Switzerland and Singapore. Its first and best-known community is Avalon Park in east Orlando, begun in 1998 and organized as villages around a walkable town center; the Clock Tower that anchors that downtown went up in 2000, with four-story mixed-use buildings following in 2002 and 2005. It went on to develop Avalon Park Wesley Chapel, where sales began in 2011, and Avalon Park Tavares, launched in 2021. The company describes its model as "live, learn, work, play."
When will homes actually be available?
Beat Kahli said at the time of the May 2026 approval that the goal was to start building houses in twelve to eighteen months, which points to roughly mid-to-late 2027, and ClickOrlando reported Phase 1 construction was set to begin the following year. No date for a model opening or a first home delivery has been stated anywhere. We would also point out, because it is relevant and rarely mentioned, that this project has slipped before: the original plan targeted a 2021 groundbreaking, was later cut from 10,000 units to 7,878, and was retargeted to 2025. Treat any timeline as a target rather than a commitment.
What roads have to be built first?
The approval carries a substantial road obligation, reported at between $120 million and $125 million. It includes Avalon Park Boulevard running from SR-40 to Tymber Creek Road, two lanes of Tymber Creek Road itself, and a new cut-through connecting SR-40 to LPGA Boulevard. A binding condition requires that infrastructure for each phase be complete before the next phase proceeds, and Phase 1 infrastructure must be finished within five years of the first certificate of occupancy. The Commission also barred the use of Booth Road for construction traffic.
Was there opposition?
Yes, and it is worth understanding rather than glossing over. Traffic was the dominant objection at both hearings, along with flooding risk and wildlife impacts; residents told the Commission that traffic is already difficult and that tens of thousands of additional residents would make it worse. At the Planning Board, one member voted against the rezoning over poor connectivity to existing Daytona Beach, and another board member supported the project but pushed for an affordable housing commitment. The approvals nonetheless passed unanimously at the Commission, with the phased-infrastructure condition and the Booth Road restriction attached, plus reserved land for a police substation, a fire substation and a charter school.
What about water and sewer? I heard there was a lawsuit.
There was, and it is not fully resolved. Avalon Park Group sued both Ormond Beach and Daytona Beach over water and wastewater service, filing in June 2025, and separately applied through Avalon Park Utilities, LLC for original certificates to operate a water and wastewater utility in Volusia County. The developer voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit without prejudice on August 6, 2026, citing productive collaboration, but no final service arrangement has been announced. "Without prejudice" means it can be refiled. For a buyer this is a genuine open item rather than a settled one, and we would rather flag it than leave it out.
What schools will serve Avalon Park Daytona Beach?
Zoned schools cannot be looked up yet. Volusia County Schools assigns attendance zones by physical address, and this is unplatted land with no addresses. What the approval does include is reserved land for a charter school, along with a developer commitment to build school capacity if the district determines it is needed. Given that 8,818 homes will force attendance boundaries to be redrawn regardless, we would treat any school claim you see about this community today as speculation. Run the specific address through the district's Find My School locator once addresses exist.
What are the property taxes?
The land is inside Daytona Beach city limits, and the May 2026 action included annexing an additional parcel. The total combined millage for the Daytona Beach tax district was 18.0498 mills for 2025 final, with 18.3128 mills proposed on the 2026 working roll. That total already bundles the city, Volusia County, the School Board, Halifax Hospital, the St. Johns River Water Management District and several smaller districts. Any CDD assessment would be additional and appears separately as a non-ad-valorem line. Florida has no state income tax.
What is already around it?
Latitude Margaritaville sits immediately to the south, and it is the most instructive datapoint on this page: that community sold out more than five years ahead of its own projections. Tiger Bay State Forest is immediately west, and Hunter Ridge and Ormond Beach lie north. For new-construction comparison, Mosaic by ICI Homes in Daytona Beach advertises from about $440,900 across roughly 1,650 to 3,999 square feet as of August 2026. Daytona Beach's citywide median sale price was $314,829 as of June 2026, up 0.4% year over year, with a median 77 days on market.
How do I get updates on Avalon Park Daytona Beach?
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