Key Facts

  • 2001

    Designed

  • 2.2 ac.

    Project Size

  • Riviera Development, LLC

    Client

Program

  • 21

    Units

About Campo Sano Village

This townhouse court building type has become a staple in DPZ charrettes where providing vehicular access along a greenway or water frontage is impractical or costly. Lining a private Coral Gables golf course on one side, this 2.5-acre collection of rowhouse compounds caused a stir when first built due to its picturesque architecture with sculptural Dutch-Caribbean parapets. Yet the unique look was contextual, given the City’s historic themed villages from the 1920s. Moreover, the lively façades provided a useful distraction from several adjacent factors: a noisy collector street, neighboring student rental units, the service entrance of a hospital complex across the street, and a large university campus parking lot down the block. The project’s success can be measured by the million-dollar resales of its 2400 – 3600 sf homes, and for introducing the missing-middle townhouse type that surprisingly had eluded this City’s sizable empty nester market. Multiple townhouse groupings now dot the downtown streetscape.

Applied Initiatives

Lean Urbanism

Plan

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