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Crescent Walk in Lehigh Acres, Florida

Four hundred and thirty-four homes are approved on about 119 acres between Sunrise Boulevard and Richmond Avenue South, with D.R. Horton named as applicant of record on the issued permit for the site work. The approval is for 218 twin villas and 216 single-family homes with an amenity centre, and the site adjoins two public schools. Nothing has been released to the public yet: no pricing, no floor plans, no sales date. This page tracks the community and opens an interest list so you hear the moment that changes.

Homes approved

434, villas and single-family

On the permits

D.R. Horton

Where

Lehigh Acres, Lee County

Status

Permitted and addressed, nothing released

What is confirmed, and what is not

The approvals here are unusually well documented, and the unknowns are just as real. We would rather mark a gap as a gap than fill it with a guess.

• Homes approved434: 218 twin villas and 216 single-family homes
• SiteAbout 119 acres, roughly 3.6 homes per acre
• WhereBetween Sunrise Boulevard and Richmond Avenue South
• Named on the permitsD.R. Horton, as applicant of record for the site work
• SchoolsThe site adjoins two public schools
• Amenity centreOne is included in the approval
• PricingNot yet released Get notified
• Floor plansNot yet released Get notified
• How and when homes are offeredNot yet announced Get notified
• Street namesLaid out in county records, not final until the plat records Get notified
• Flood mappingNot yet confirmed for this site Get notified
• Monthly duesNot yet published Get notified

Details on this page are compiled from public entitlement records and are targets, not commitments. Pricing, floor plans, home counts, and timing have not been released by the builder and are subject to change without notice.

About Crescent Walk

The approval splits almost evenly between two products: 218 twin villas, which are paired homes sharing one wall, and 216 detached single-family houses, with an amenity centre serving both. Spread across roughly 119 acres that works out near 3.6 homes to the acre, which is ordinary suburban density and leaves room for the stormwater lakes and open space a new Florida community is required to build.

The entitlement has a longer history than the name suggests. This land was previously approved under two earlier names, which were replaced when the current plan was amended, and the county's own records still render the project with its former name attached. That matters for a practical reason covered further down: the old name belongs to a different, currently-selling community nearby, and confusing the two is the easiest mistake to make about this site.

One step has not happened yet, and it is the step that governs everything else. No plat has recorded. A recorded plat is what carves the land into individual numbered lots you can buy, and until it records there are only two large parent parcels. County address records already lay out the street pattern and the names planned for it, all of them drawn from Florida birds, but because the plat is not recorded those names are not final. The most recent county aerial imagery, flown after the site-work permit was issued, still shows undeveloped scrub with the old farm lakes and no road grid, no pads and no equipment staged. That is a fair picture of where this stands: fully permitted, not yet begun.

D.R. Horton is named as applicant of record on the issued state permit for the site work. It is the largest homebuilder in the country by volume and has been since 2002, building in 126 markets across 36 states under its Tradition, Express, Freedom and Emerald series, with affiliated mortgage, title and insurance arms. The builder has not announced how or when homes here will be offered, and we are not going to assume it.

Subdiview is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by D.R. Horton. D.R. Horton and its community names are trademarks of their respective owners and are used here for identification only. All community information is compiled from public records and is subject to change.

Schools, and why nobody can name you a zoned one

If another page tells you the zoned elementary school for this address, it is wrong, because Lee County does not assign children to schools by neighbourhood boundary.

The district runs a choice system, and it changed recently enough that stale descriptions are everywhere. Elementary and middle grades now use lettered proximity zones: you rank every school in your zone and placement is decided by lottery, with busing only inside your own zone. High school still uses the larger East, South and West zones, each split into sub-zones, and Lehigh Acres falls in the East zone, where Lehigh Senior High is the local option and carries Cambridge and arts programmes.

Here is why the location is genuinely good anyway. The lottery has a published priority order, and after students with special-programme and sibling claims, the strongest general-population preference goes to families living within two miles of the school, in what the district calls the safe-walk zone. This site does not merely sit near two schools, it adjoins them: Amanecer Elementary on Sunrise Boulevard, opened for the 2023-24 year with room for just over a thousand students, and Lehigh Acres Middle School about two-tenths of a mile further, opened in 2021-22 with room for roughly 1,370. Both are new buildings in a district graded B overall for 2025-26.

Two honest cautions. That proximity preference is a preference subject to capacity, not a guarantee of a seat, and the same safe-walk status that earns it also means no district bus. And if you are buying before the house is finished, the mechanics are strict: proof of address for a home under construction takes a mortgage acceptance letter plus a letter from the builder, completion has to fall within thirty days of the child attending, registration opens the first Monday in November, and filing a new application forfeits the seat you already hold. Check the current year's enrolment plan rather than relying on any of this second-hand.

Getting around, and what is nearby

The headline is better than Lehigh's reputation suggests: the long-running widening of State Road 82, the main artery west toward Fort Myers, is essentially finished through Lehigh Acres. Two lanes became four-lane divided with bike lanes, a shared-use path and a sidewalk, and the median was built deliberately wide enough to take a future six lanes. A short segment at Alabama Road remained in construction into early 2027. State Road 80 runs as a northern parallel, Lee Boulevard is the internal spine, and interstate access is I-75 at Exit 138 by way of State Road 82, with central Fort Myers roughly 15 miles west.

We are not going to invent a drive time. The honest number is the census one: the mean commute for Lehigh Acres workers is about 38 minutes. That is the single most useful fact about living here and it is the one most listings leave out. The long-term pressure is capacity rather than construction, with the regional planning organisation projecting Lehigh's population roughly doubling between 2019 and 2050.

Close by, the best open space is unusual and worth knowing about. Harns Marsh, off Sunshine Boulevard, is 578 acres that the drainage district converted from farmland in the early 1980s and still operates as a working stormwater facility. It filters water and reduces flooding downstream, and it has become one of the region's serious birding destinations, with more than 140 species recorded including snail kites and limpkin. It is dawn to dusk, foot traffic only, with no facilities, and it can close when water is high. It is explicitly not a park, which is part of its charm. For an actual park, Veterans Park Recreation Center is the county facility, with a skate bowl, a splash playground, lighted tennis and basketball, handball, lighted softball, a four-acre athletic field and a dog park, on a lifetime membership of $10 for an individual and $25 for a family. Healthcare locally is HCA Florida Lehigh Hospital on Lee Boulevard, which has run a round-the-clock emergency department since 1998. Mirror Lakes Golf Club is the public course. Gulf beaches and Sanibel are a day trip across Fort Myers and over the causeway, not a neighbourhood amenity.

The honest tradeoffs

Lehigh Acres has a specific history that explains most of what frustrates people about it, and a new platted community on central utilities is a different proposition from the older scattered stock. Both halves of that are worth saying.

The place was carved up from 1954 onward out of an 18,000-acre cattle ranch, into something like 152,000 quarter- and half-acre lots served by more than 1,400 miles of road across 61,000 acres. As late as 1997 nearly ninety percent of those lots were still empty. That is why houses appear one at a time between vacant lots, why nothing was ever sequenced, and why there is no city government: Lehigh Acres is unincorporated.

The most consequential legacy is retail. By one well-sourced account only about two percent of Lehigh's land is zoned commercial against a typical five, most of what exists was sold off as shallow strip-mall parcels, and even fully built out it would serve only a minority of the eventual population. In practice that means one supermarket near Homestead Road and a drive to Fort Myers for most things. A Walmart-anchored centre on the southern edge broke ground in September 2026 for a late 2027 or early 2028 opening, which will help, and it does not change the picture this year.

Utilities are the other fault line, and here the distinction really matters. Lee County Utilities does not serve Lehigh Acres at all; the central system is run by a separate governmental utility authority, and its roughly 12,600 water connections sit against some 48,000 housing units, so most of the older scattered housing is on well and septic. A new 434-home community at this density is a different animal, built to current standards with engineered lakes and a permitted outfall. One gap we will not paper over: we could not confirm that this specific site sits inside that utility's service area. It is very likely, and we are not asserting it.

On water more generally: Lehigh is far enough inland to have no storm-surge exposure, and its real flood story is rainfall and drainage, handled through a 311-mile canal system run by an improvement district created in 2015. Inland does not mean low wind, as the region learned, but a house built to the current Florida Building Code is a materially different risk from 1960s and 1970s stock. What new construction does not fix is the thin retail and the 38-minute commute. Those come with the address.

Costs, including the ones off the millage sheet

The 2026 preliminary millage for the Lehigh Acres districts runs about 10.87 mills, or about 11.27 including the street lighting unit, so roughly 1.09 to 1.13 percent of taxable value. By Florida standards that is moderate.

The more useful fact is what that number excludes, and the county's own millage book says it on every page: it does not include non-ad valorem special assessments. In Lehigh Acres two of those matter. The fire district levies nothing at all ad valorem, which is why it looks absent from the rate sheet; instead it charges a voter-approved assessment built from a flat per-parcel amount plus a rate applied to the improvement value, which means it scales with the house rather than the land, with annual increases capped by a state income growth measure. And the drainage district charges its own assessment on a per-acre basis to fund that canal system, published at about $172.48 per acre, though the district does not state which fiscal year that figure belongs to. Because it is per acre, a quarter-acre homesite lands in the tens of dollars a year rather than the hundreds, but no lots are platted here yet, so treat the basis as the fact and the per-home figure as something to read off the real tax notice.

Insurance is moving in buyers' favour. Lee County's average homeowners premium was around $3,576 a year as of early 2026, down about 1.5 percent over the preceding twelve months, against roughly $3,160 in Charlotte County and over $5,000 in Collier. Statewide, premiums fell in 51 of 67 counties, and as of late September 2026 the average rate change insurers were requesting was a decrease of about 4.8 percent, with further reductions under review into 2027. Those are county-wide averages across all housing, not quotes. New construction earns wind-mitigation credits and starts with a zero-year roof, which is the mechanism behind a better-than-average premium, and we are not going to put a discount percentage on it.

Dues here are unpublished, because there is no plat, no budget and nothing built. The nearest comparable, the community immediately east, was charging about $410 a quarter, roughly $137 a month, covering management, insurance, irrigation water, recreation, road maintenance and street lights. Expect two tiers at Crescent Walk given the villa component, with villas higher because exterior and lawn care are usually bundled; that is the normal Florida pattern rather than a fact about this community. On homestead: the additional exemption that brings the total to $51,411 is Florida law and identical in all 67 counties, so it is state framework, not a local benefit. The local variable is the millage above.

Market context, with dates

No price exists for Crescent Walk, so here is the market around it. As of mid-October 2026, Lehigh Acres resales were running a median near $310,000 at about $202 a square foot, with a median 54 days to contract and roughly 257 homes active against 60 under contract. Year over year the median was down about 6.6 percent. Those figures come from an MLS-derived aggregator rather than the Realtor association, and the source disagrees with itself at the margins, so treat them as rounded.

New construction is the interesting part. The community immediately east was asking from about $268,000 and from about $289,990 depending on builder, another from the same builder as this project about four-tenths of a mile west was from about $269,990, and a further community nearby about $297,990, all as of October 2026. Notice that those starting prices sit below the resale median. That is why builders in this submarket hold their list prices and compete on incentives, rate buydowns and closing-cost contributions instead, and it is the single most useful thing to understand before you negotiate here. A closed sale in the community next door illustrates the spread: a 2,262-square-foot house listed at $385,990 in May 2025 closed at $384,990 that August, which is the top of the range rather than the advertised entry point.

Buying new construction with someone on your side

The person at the builder's sales desk works for the builder. Their duty runs to the seller, and what you tell them about your budget is information held on the seller's behalf. You are entitled to a licensed agent of your own reading the contract and negotiating for you.

The timing is the part most buyers miss. On new construction you generally need your own agent involved from the very first visit, because builders commonly require the agent be disclosed at that first registration. Tour alone, sign in alone, and many builders will not recognise representation afterwards. It is a real deadline and it arrives early.

On a community at this stage the questions are specific. Because no plat has recorded, anything you are shown about lot lines, street names and homesite dimensions is subject to change, so get the recorded plat before you commit to a homesite premium. Ask what the base price includes against what the model shows. Ask which lender you have to use to earn the advertised incentive and price the same loan independently, because this builder's incentives are typically rate buydowns tied to its affiliated mortgage arm. Ask what happens to your deposit if completion slips past the outside date. Ask for the association budget and the dues the moment they exist, and whether villas and single-family homes sit in one association or two. And get the lot-specific flood determination, since we could not establish it for the site as a whole.

One more thing worth weighing about a villa. A twin villa shares a single wall with one neighbour, which is a materially different experience from a townhome row, and it usually comes with the exterior and the lawn handled by the association. For buyers who want a new house without the Saturday maintenance, that is the appeal. The tradeoffs are a smaller yard, a shared structural wall, and an association with real authority over the outside of your home. Ask which association governs your product, what the dues cover, and to see the reserve study once one exists, because thin reserves are how a special assessment turns up five years later.

Names, and the community this is not

This is the most important disambiguation on the page. Because the entitlement was previously approved under an earlier name, a search on that old name will take you straight to a different community: an actively selling neighbourhood immediately east of this site, by different builders, in a different ZIP code, on different streets, which happens to share that former name. The two parcels touch along one boundary and share an approved access point, and they are separate projects. If you see published pricing or live listings attached to that older name, they belong to the neighbour, not to Crescent Walk.

There is a second trap in the other direction. About four-tenths of a mile west, the same builder has another community that is already selling, with its own streets and its own price list. That one is also not this one. The reliable way to tell them apart is geography rather than name: Crescent Walk is the roughly 119-acre site between Sunrise Boulevard and Richmond Avenue South, adjoining the elementary and middle schools, and its planned street names are all Florida birds.

Questions

See the cross-streets on a map to place the site between Sunrise Boulevard and Richmond Avenue South.