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Briar Pointe, Jacksonville, Florida

Fifty-six two-story townhomes on about nine acres at Cargal Street and the Southside Boulevard service road, on the Jacksonville Southside just north of Beach Boulevard. KB Home markets it as Briar Pointe Townhomes, owns both parcels, and has the site work permitted and under way. The published product runs about 1,155 to 1,598 square feet with up to three bedrooms. What does not exist yet is a price, a street name, an address or an opening date.

At a glance

Homes planned

56 townhome homesites

Home type

Two-story townhomes, up to three bedrooms

Home sizes

About 1,155 to 1,598 square feet

Site size

About nine acres, two parcels combined

Density

About six homes to the acre

Where

Southside, Jacksonville, Duval County

ZIP code

32216

Frontage

Cargal Street and the Southside Boulevard service road

Zoning

Medium-density residential

Land title

KB Home, builder and landowner of record

Site work

Clearing under way, nothing built yet

Recorded plat

None on record yet

Street addresses

Not yet assigned

Special flood hazard area

Mapped outside it

Onsite wetland

About an acre, mitigated under the state permit

Property tax rate

About 17.6 mills, roughly 1.76 percent, 2026 roll

Community development district

None found, not established

School district

Duval County Public Schools

Pricing

Not yet released Get notified

Floor plan names

Not yet released Get notified

Homeowners association dues

Not yet released Get notified

Interior street names

Not yet established Get notified

Sales office

Not yet open Get notified

Model home

Not yet announced Get notified

Opening date

Not yet announced Get notified

Details here are compiled from public records and from published builder information, and are targets rather than commitments. Pricing, plans, dues and timing have not been released and are subject to change.

What is actually here

Two adjoining parcels, about nine acres between them, 56 planned townhome homesites, one frontage corner. The land sits on the west side of Southside Boulevard behind the service road, with a smaller piece reaching out to Cargal Street. Zoning is a medium-density residential district, so the use question is settled.

The most useful single fact is who holds what. KB Home is the applicant on the issued state environmental resource permit that authorises the site work, and it is also the owner of both parcels on the county tax roll, having closed on the land in the spring of 2026. Those roles usually sit with different companies this early: a developer permits, clears and plats the ground and sells finished lots on to a builder, so the timetable hangs on a handoff. Here there is none left.

The product is published and specific: two-story townhomes of about 1,155 to 1,598 square feet, up to three bedrooms. That band is the spread the community will be priced around. What has not happened is equally specific. No plat has recorded, so there are no lot lines in the public record and no street names, and no addresses have been assigned. Both parcels are still carried as vacant land. KB Home is the builder and landowner of record here, and it is not selling here yet.

Subdiview is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by KB Home, whose community names are used here for identification only.

An infill assemblage, not a greenfield subdivision

Get this straight and most of the rest follows. A greenfield community starts with a few hundred acres at the edge of the metro and the developer draws whatever it likes on a blank sheet: an amenity centre, a lake, a decade of phases. Briar Pointe is the opposite animal, a nine-acre wooded hole in an already-built part of Jacksonville, stitched out of two parcels and surrounded by commercial buildings, apartments and streets that got there first. Sites like this stay wooded because they were awkward, usually split ownership, an estate or wet ground.

What you get for it is location you could not buy new any other way. The retail, the arterials, the office parks and the restaurants are already there. You are not waiting four years for a grocery store to open at your entrance.

What you give up is the blank sheet. Nine acres cannot hold a clubhouse, a resort pool or a trail network, and this page will not invent one. There is no buffer of your own land between you and the outside world, so your neighbours include whatever was built to the property line.

Cargal Street is not the community street

Thirty seconds on this will save you a confusing afternoon. Cargal Street and the Southside Boulevard service road are existing public roads: the frontage the land was bought along and the cross streets the builder uses to locate the site. They are not new community inventory, and Cargal Street already carries an unrelated parcel.

The streets that will serve the townhomes do not have names yet, because streets get named when a plat records and no plat has recorded. So there is a window, and we are in it, where the community has a published name, a homesite count and a size range and no addresses. If a house number shows up attached to this community today, something is wrong with it. Search the community name instead. And when the plat records, the interior streets here are likely to be private drives maintained by the association rather than public streets. Ask which, because it changes who repaves them and who pays.

The Southside, the two corridors and the commute

The Southside is where Jacksonville went when it stopped being a downtown: the broad quadrant east of the river and south of Arlington, and now the city's real centre of gravity for offices, retail and new housing.

This site sits where the two defining roads meet. Southside Boulevard is the north-south spine, a high-capacity arterial running from the Arlington Expressway down past Beach Boulevard toward Butler Boulevard and Interstate 95, lined with the office parks that pay the mortgages out here. Beach Boulevard is the east-west one, running from the river straight out to Jacksonville Beach, which makes this the compromise address for a household with one person working inland and one at the coast.

A lot sits inside a short drive. The St. Johns Town Center, the region's dominant open-air shopping and dining district, is off Butler Boulevard a few minutes south, and the Tinseltown cluster of cinemas and restaurants is nearer still. Immediately north and east there is already big-box and strip retail within sight of the property line, which is the infill dividend: a grocery run is an errand, not an expedition. We have not measured drive times and will not guess at them.

Be honest about the trade. What makes this location convenient is that it is on busy roads, and busy roads are loud. A service road frontage on an arterial makes traffic noise a real variable from homesite to homesite.

What six homes to the acre actually means

Fifty-six homes on nine acres is about six to the acre, and that number answers what the brochure will not. With an acre already spoken for as wetland and more going to stormwater, drives and landscaping, the buildable ground is tight.

Yards are small. At this density the private outdoor space is typically a patio or a small rear court rather than a lawn, and the front yard is usually association-maintained so the streetscape stays uniform. If you want a garden, a shed or a dog run, read the declaration first.

Parking is what buyers underestimate most here. On a compact plan you typically get a one-car or two-car garage with a driveway apron, and the apron is where the second car goes. Guest parking on nine acres is whatever the plan sets aside, which is never generous, and street parking on a private drive is usually restricted. If your household runs three vehicles, get the guest-space count and the rules before you sign.

Shared walls are better than their reputation when built properly. Ask whether the party walls are a rated assembly, whether there is a sound rating, and who repairs a shared wall or roof. Position matters more than square footage here: an end unit, an interior unit, a unit facing the corridor and a unit backing onto retained green are four different purchases at roughly the same price.

Flood, the wetland and the drainage

Two separate facts here, and conflating them is the easiest mistake to make. First, the mapping. The site is mapped outside the special flood hazard area. That is the favourable answer and it has a direct financial consequence: a lender is not expected to require flood insurance on that mapping, which on a Florida purchase is a real monthly saving. Two caveats. The mapping today is at the parcel scale, and a lot-level determination can only be run once your homesite has an address, so ask for it in writing inside your inspection period. And a hazard map speaks only to the one percent annual chance flood, not to rainfall that outruns the drainage.

Second, and separately, there is wetland on the property. About an acre of the larger parcel is carried by the county appraiser as swamp, and the state environmental permit has already been modified once to revise the mitigation plan for it. The wetland is real, known, and being handled under the permit. Being mapped outside the flood hazard area and having an onsite wetland under mitigation are both true at once and are not in tension.

What it means for you is site planning. An acre that cannot be built on has to go somewhere, usually as retained preserve or folded in with the stormwater pond. Ground that will never be built on behind you is a permanent view, and it is also standing water. Ask which homesites adjoin retained area, and who maintains it, because here the answer is the association and it shows up in your dues.

The cost stack: taxes, dues and the district question

Start with the tax rate, because it is knowable today. The combined millage for this location on the 2026 roll runs to roughly 17.6 mills, about 1.76 percent of taxable value before any exemption: general government, the school levies, the water management district and the inland navigation district together. Because the site sits inside the consolidated city's general services district, city and county are one layer rather than two.

What nobody can hand you is a dollar figure. The land is assessed as vacant today and your bill will be calculated on a finished townhome. Budget for the first full tax year to jump hard, and remember that the homestead exemption and the Save Our Homes cap do not travel with the house: they begin after you own it, occupy it and file.

Then the district question, the biggest unpriced line on most Florida new-home purchases. A community development district is a special-purpose local government that borrows to build a community's roads, drainage and utilities and repays the bonds through an annual assessment on every home inside it, collected on your tax bill. It does not replace an association, so where one exists you pay both, often well over a thousand dollars a year for decades.

For this site, no district was found and none has been established that we can locate. That is a negative finding rather than a guarantee, though a fairly strong one: districts finance large amounts of new infrastructure, and an infill site where the water, sewer and arterials are already at the property line has little to finance. Put the question in writing when a sales office opens, and ask for the annual amount and the term. One trap while you wait: reading a parcel's tax code cannot settle it, because Florida district assessments are non-ad-valorem.

Finally, dues, which have not been released. Expect an association carrying the private drives, the stormwater system, the retained wetland and the common landscaping, and on most townhome product the roofs and exteriors too. That is why townhome dues look high next to a detached subdivision's and why your own maintenance list is short. When a budget exists, interrogate the reserve schedule.

Insurance, closing costs and incentives

Insurance moves a Florida monthly payment more than almost anything else, and new construction is a real advantage. Windstorm is the dominant cost driver here, and a home built to the current Florida Building Code with a wind mitigation inspection earns the largest credits available: roof deck attachment, secondary water resistance and opening protection.

A townhome usually adds a second advantage. The association typically carries a master policy over the structure, roof and exterior, with the owner carrying an interior and contents policy on top, which puts the most expensive part of the risk on the association's books rather than yours. The split here is not established, so find out where the master policy stops and yours starts, and get a bound quote on the specific plan and homesite.

Closing costs and incentives are where the real negotiation sits. Builders rarely cut a published base price, because a recorded lower sale damages the comparables for every other home in the community. Instead they pay closing costs, buy down a rate or add options, and early on they are often more generous. The catch is usually the lender: the largest incentives are commonly conditioned on financing through the builder's own mortgage affiliate. Price it both ways.

Schools

Duval County Public Schools serves the entire consolidated city, so the district is certain. It also runs a substantial magnet and school-choice programme, so options are often wider than the assigned neighbourhood school.

The individual assigned schools are a different matter and this page will not name them. Assignment runs off a street address, this community has none yet, and boundaries get re-drawn. Once a homesite has an address, run it through the district's own locator, and if a specific school is why you are buying, make it a written condition.

The honest tradeoffs

In its favour: the location is the kind you normally cannot buy new, inside an established part of the Southside with retail, arterials and office employment already in place. One company owns the land and holds the permit, so there is no developer handoff to wait on. The site is mapped outside the special flood hazard area, no district assessment has been found, and build-out on fifty-six homes is short, so the construction noise has an end date.

Against it, plainly: fifty-six townhomes on nine acres cannot support amenities, so there will be no clubhouse, no resort pool and no trail network. Density is what you trade for the location: small outdoor space, shared walls, cars parked close together. An arterial frontage means road noise on some homesites. A small association has thin reserves, and on townhome product it owns the expensive parts. Resale comparables will be thin for the first few years.

Buying from a production builder, with someone on your side

There is no sales office here yet and no model home, which changes how first contact works. At this stage your first interaction with any builder is almost always a registration rather than a visit: a form, an enquiry, a name on a list. That is where the representation question quietly gets decided.

The person at the desk in a builder's sales centre works for the builder. They are usually helpful, and they are also paid by and accountable to the party on the other side of your contract. That is not a criticism, it is what the job is. It does mean the only person reading your contract for you is whoever you brought.

Your own representation generally costs a buyer nothing extra, because builders budget for a buyer's agent whether or not you bring one. Where people lose it is timing: most builders will only recognise your agent if that agent is named at your very first registration. Arrange it beforehand.

A pre-construction contract is not a resale contract either, and the negotiating room sits elsewhere: the deposit structure and when deposits go hard, what the builder may substitute, what happens if completion slips, and what the warranty covers. Here, add the dues, the insurance split, the lot-level flood determination, which homesites adjoin retained wetland, and the guest parking count.

What is still genuinely unknown

Not released: pricing and per-plan price points, floor plan names, association dues, a sales office, a model home and an opening date. Not established: any recorded plat, therefore any lot lines, interior street names or assigned addresses; the specific assigned schools, which follow from those addresses; the phasing, including whether all fifty-six homes come in a single run; the insurance split; and the vertical start date, which is a projection rather than a record.

One honest limit on our side. The city's building permit portal requires a login, so we cannot tell you whether a local grading permit or an approved construction plan exists, and not finding them behind a login is not evidence that they do not exist. We also did not search civil court dockets. The issued state permit, the county tax roll and the visible condition of the ground are what this page rests on.

Most of the missing answers arrive together, in a single week, when a builder goes to market. That is the moment a list is for.

Other names this goes by

The builder markets this community as Briar Pointe Townhomes, which is the name you will most often see in search results and on new-home portals. The state permitting record and the county tax roll carry it simply as Briar Pointe. You will also see Briar Pointe Jacksonville and Briar Pointe Duval County.

In the older records the land is not under any of those names. The larger parcel sits inside a historic early-twentieth-century commissioners' subdivision whose name has nothing to do with this project, and the seller side of the 2026 purchase appears as the Stubbs estate, which is what a title search is likely to surface for ground held by one family for a long time. Neither is the Briar Pointe plat, because none has recorded. And with no addresses assigned, an address search will not find this community.

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