Rivergrass

Get the roles straight first, because it changes who you are dealing with. Lennar is the homebuilder here. The master developer of the village and the wider town is Collier Enterprises, which assembled the entitlements and is delivering the infrastructure. Ask about a floor plan and you are asking Lennar; ask about roads, the district, the village centre or what gets built next door and you are really asking about Collier Enterprises' plans, which the sales office may not be the right place to answer.

On scale, two numbers, both accurate and easy to confuse. Lennar's parcel is about 545 acres with more than a thousand homes reported, while the village as approved permits up to 2,500 homes on about a thousand acres along with commercial and civic space and a golf course. Four collections have been published, from villas around 1,462 square feet up to manor homes near 3,392, with pricing from the $300,000s and a reported range extending into the $700,000s. The amenity plan includes a resort pool with lap pool and splash park, sports courts, a racquets pavilion and an event lawn, with a village centre described as future rather than built.

Timing deserves its own sentence because people plan moves around the wrong date. Sales have been described as opening in fall 2026, and first residents as arriving in 2027. Ground was broken in early 2026 and as of September 2026 the community was shown as by appointment only with no homes available. Plan around a 2027 occupancy and get the delivery window for your specific homesite in writing.

Now the utilities question, which is the sharpest unanswered item here. The county will serve this area through a large northeast water and wastewater programme, and this community is explicitly among those named in it. The programme's own published schedule, though, has construction beginning in 2028 and the facilities required to be operational by 2031, while homes are due to be occupied from 2027. Crews have reportedly been laying pipe on site. We could not confirm the interim treatment arrangement and we are not going to guess at it. Ask the county utilities department directly what serves your phase between occupancy and the permanent plants, and what that means for your rates in the meantime.

What has not been published: the district's per-unit assessment, HOA dues and what they cover, the lot map and homesite premiums, the amenity and village-centre delivery schedule, the interim water and sewer arrangement, and which incentives are available without using the builder's own lender.

Wildfire is the genuinely under-discussed risk in eastern Collier County, and it is not theoretical. In spring 2026 a brush fire in the state forest to the southwest burned more than seventeen hundred acres and forced the evacuation of roughly a hundred and sixty homes, with crews running hundreds of aircraft water drops against sustained winds. Fires of several hundred acres in the same forest are documented across other seasons. This is a recurring feature of the dry season here rather than an anomaly, and it should factor into your insurance conversation and your choice of homesite.

Related, and it is mitigation rather than hazard: prescribed burning is routine county practice from roughly December into April at preserves across the county. Nearby residents are notified by mail, and you should expect smoke and reduced visibility on some days. It is deliberately reducing the fuel that drives the fires above, and new residents are frequently alarmed by it the first year.

Panthers are a daily-life fact here, not just a legal one. The federal wildlife refuge is close to parts of the town's footprint, the challengers' own analysis put most of this site inside primary panther habitat, and the federal permitting for the wider project requires wildlife passage through the development and crossings built into its infrastructure, with the developer committing millions toward crossings and fencing. The practical version for a resident is simple and worth internalising: vehicle strikes are the leading documented cause of panther deaths, so the roads out here at dawn and dusk deserve different driving than a suburban street.

On storms, the inland position changes the risk profile rather than removing it. When Hurricane Irma crossed the region in 2017, roughly ninety-four percent of the county's electric customers lost power and more than seventy percent of its cell towers went out of service, and inland Immokalee saw severe damage. A site fifteen-plus miles inland has fundamentally different storm surge exposure than coastal Naples, while wind and the loss of power, water, cell service and road access are countywide problems. Out here, being a long way from a hospital and a grocery store matters far more during a multi-day outage than on an ordinary Tuesday. Plan for that specifically.

Three smaller things to check on the actual parcel. Flood zone is parcel-specific and must be pulled for your exact address alongside the lender's determination and an elevation certificate. Confirm whether the property is inside the county's mosquito control district, because its service boundaries do not obviously cover this stretch and the district advises checking the tax bill for the line item. And on taxes, the county's own levies are modest by Florida standards with school and other district levies on top, but rates were being adopted in September 2026, so confirm the adopted figures for the specific parcel, and remember the district assessment sits on top of all of it.