Beresford Reserve

Beresford Reserve is a planned residential community on the land that used to be the Sandhill golf course, later called Southridge, in DeLand, FL. It sits between East Euclid Avenue on the north and East Beresford Avenue on the south, with South Boston Avenue to the west and South Hill Avenue to the east. The DeLand City Commission rezoned it to a planned development, and a plat covering about 408 single-family homes, filed by D.R. Horton, is currently working through the city's development review process. No floor plans, no pricing and no model home have been released.

Yes. Beresford Springs is this project's earlier name, and it is still the name attached to the state environmental file. Several other DeLand names sound similar and are not this project. Beresford Woods is a different community on the west side of DeLand in 32720, where Risewell Homes is selling today from about $359,990. Beresford Manor is an existing neighborhood built between 1972 and 2006. Delaney Reserve is a separate townhome community off Red Buckeye Court where Hartizen Homes is selling now in the $260,000s to low $300,000s. DeLand Reserve is a different project again, on North Ridgewood Avenue. If you searched one of those and landed here, this is the one on the old Sandhill golf course between East Euclid and East Beresford Avenues.

It means what it says, and it is the single most important thing to understand about this property. The City of DeLand operated an unpermitted municipal dump on this land in the late 1950s and 1960s. It then became a golf course from the late 1960s until it closed in 2018. Both uses left residue: buried household and construction waste from the dump, and pesticide and metals residue in the top couple of feet of soil from decades of golf course maintenance. The property was later designated a state brownfield and the owner signed a cleanup agreement with the state. That cleanup is underway right now. It has not been completed and no closure order has been issued.

The public environmental records for this site list a mix of pesticide residue and metals in the upper soil layer left over from decades of golf course maintenance, plus buried debris from the site's earlier years as a municipal dump; groundwater testing has found trace metals and dissolved solids as well. The record states these impacts do not extend off the property. We are reporting what the public environmental file says, not characterizing risk. Anyone evaluating what this means for a specific household should read the file and talk to their own environmental professional.

The approved approach is to excavate the buried waste and consolidate it into a small number of encapsulation areas on the property, each capped with several feet of verified clean fill. The cleanup targets have been approved and work is actively in progress. And yes: the site plan places some single-family and townhome lots over the capped areas. Those lots will carry recorded deed restrictions limiting things like digging below the cap. If you buy one of those homes, that restriction runs with your land. That is not a reason to walk away and it is not a footnote either. It is a thing to know before you tour, and to have your own agent and attorney read.

No. As of today there is no completion order and no "no further action" determination for this site. The project is in the active remediation stage, meaning the plan is approved and the work is in progress. A brownfield designation is a state economic incentive program that exists specifically to get contaminated land cleaned up and rebuilt, and it carries tax credits and liability protections for the party doing the work. It is not a certification that a site is clean, and it is not a hazard rating either. It is a cleanup agreement, and this one is still open.

About 408 single-family, for-sale homes are planned in the plat now under city review. The zoning for the site also allows a rental portion held under single ownership, which stays under one owner rather than being sold off individually. What matters to you as a buyer is the headline: about 408 for-sale homes on a former golf course, with a rental component alongside it, all of it entitled and none of it yet priced.

D.R. Horton, Inc. is the applicant on the pending plat and is the party responsible for the environmental cleanup under the agreement with the state. D.R. Horton has not released floor plans, pricing, a series or brand name, or a sales timeline for this community, and has published nothing about it on its own website. That announcement is exactly what the interest list on this page exists to catch.

Nobody can honestly tell you, and here is why we would rather show you the mechanics than guess. The plat has been in city review for well over a year and has not yet reached final approval. Two things have to converge: the plat has to clear review and record, and the remediation has to progress far enough for the state to be satisfied. Neither has a published date. What we can tell you is that the project is not dormant: the developer is actively designing supporting infrastructure like a neighborhood park, which is not something you fund for a shelved project.

The property sits just south of downtown DeLand, on the old golf course between East Euclid and East Beresford Avenues, a mile or so from downtown, Stetson University, and Interstate 4. See the location section above for the full distance table.

The address currently falls to Freedom Elementary, DeLand Middle School and DeLand High School. Confirm with the district before relying on it, since zones are redrawn periodically. On taxes, see the market context section above; a CDD assessment for Beresford Reserve, if any, has not been published.

Join the interest list on this page. We track DeLand's development review process and the state environmental file, which is how a large approval and an active cleanup ended up documented here while the plans and pricing are still unreleased.