Lennar on Friday announced the grand opening of The National Golf & Country Club at Ave Maria – a brand new development bringing four of Lennar’s most popular home collections to the amenity-rich Ave Maria master-planned community, located within the award-winning town of Ave Maria, Florida.
The public is invited to a grand opening celebration being held Saturday, March 7 from 12:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. featuring live music, food and refreshments.
“The National is an exceptional place to call home,” said Lennar Director of Operations David Meyers. “It offers homes for everyone from young professionals and families to active empty nesters, all within an amazing golf course master plan and a town that is consistently recognized as a Collier County Community of the Year. With so much to offer, the opportunities to live and love every day here are endless.”
At The National at Ave Maria, home buyers can select from four signature Lennar home collections: Terrace condominiums, Veranda townhomes, Executive single-family homes, and Estate single-family homes. Together, these designs create a fresh, coastal community for residents of all ages, with homes ranging from 1,120 to 3,473 square feet, with two to five bedrooms and two to three-and-a-half baths.
Lennar’s open-concept floor plans at The National at Ave Maria include generous living spaces, bright center-island kitchens, spa-inspired owner’s suites and outdoor patios to capitalize on Florida’s gorgeous year-round weather. Each home is also Wi-Fi Certified, ensuring the latest in technology with conveniences like an Echo Dot, Ring Pro video doorbell, Honeywell Pro thermostat and Wi-Fi smart lock with keypad and deadbolt.
Every home at The National at Ave Maria comes with Lennar’s signature Everything’s Included program, where the home builder’s most popular options and upgrades are built into the base price of the home. At The National at Ave Maria this includes granite countertops, GE stainless steel appliances and designer-style cabinetry, among other carefully curated interior touches. Pricing begins in the upper $100,000s for homes in the Terrace collection, the mid-$200,000s for homes in the Veranda collection the mid-$300,000s for homes in the Executive collection, and the low-$400,000s for homes in the Estate collection.
Life at The National at Ave Maria will center around an 18-hole Gordon B. Lewis-designed golf course and luxury clubhouse. Features of the golf course will include a chipping area, putting green, driving range and golf pro shop. Amenities at the clubhouse will include a resort-style pool with chickee bar; tennis center with pro shop, Har-Tru tennis courts, pickle ball and bocce ball; and a sports club with a fitness center, yoga/aerobics room, men’s and women’s saunas, spa and massage rooms and a nail and beauty salon. A clubhouse with a grille room and dining room is also coming soon.
The National at Ave Maria is located in the town of Ave Maria. Within Ave Maria residents enjoy multiple parks and sports fields, miles of lakefront walking and biking trails, a dog park and the popular Ave Maria Water Park. A central amphitheater serves as the center point for an active social calendar of concerts, festivals, markets and holiday celebrations. Ave Maria is also home to a wide range of shopping, dining and employment. At build-out the town will include 11,000 residences and 1.7 million square feet of retail, offices and business park uses across 4,000 acres.
The National at Ave Maria is an easy drive to Florida’s famed beaches, the Naples Zoo, Naples Center for the Arts, historic downtown Naples, the Audubon Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary and multiple major sports attractions.
Children living at The National at Ave Maria are served by Estates Elementary School, Corkscrew Middle School and Palmetto Ridge High School, all part of the Collier County School District, ranked number three in the state of Florida. Ave Maria is also home to multiple medical centers and the private four-year Ave Maria University.