Projects Moving From Opportunity to Completion
Latitude 98’s current developments include active real estate projects moving through acquisition, due diligence, planning, design, permitting, construction, rehabilitation or completion.
These projects reflect the company’s broader development strategy across residential construction, community housing, property repositioning, Hurricane Homes, aviation facilities and specialised real estate throughout Central Florida.
This page provides a central location for following active Latitude 98 developments and understanding where each project stands in the development process.
Active Development Across Multiple Project Types
A current development may include:
- Single-family residential construction
- Duplex, triplex and fourplex development
- Infill housing
- Build-to-rent projects
- Affordable housing
- Veteran housing
- Workforce and attainable housing
- Residential rehabilitation
- Fix-and-flip properties
- Fix-and-hold properties
- Hurricane Homes
- Airport and aviation projects
- Aircraft hangars and aviation facilities
- Special-use real estate
- Custom development projects
Projects may be owned directly by Latitude 98 or advanced with landowners, investors, municipalities, housing authorities, nonprofit organisations, lenders and other development partners.
What “Current Development” Means
Real estate development involves many stages before a completed building is delivered.
A project may be classified as a current development while it is in:
- Preliminary evaluation
- Due diligence
- Site control or acquisition
- Planning
- Entitlements
- Design and engineering
- Permitting
- Site preparation
- Ground-up construction
- Rehabilitation
- Lease-up or sales preparation
- Final inspections
- Project closeout
The development status shown on each project page should identify the project’s current stage as accurately as possible.
Browse Current Developments
Each project listing should display:
- Project name
- General location
- Project type
- Current development status
- Featured photograph or rendering
- Short project overview
- Key project statistics
- Latest project update
Visitors can then access the individual project page for more detailed information.
Residential Developments
Latitude 98’s active residential projects may include new homes, small multifamily properties and residential communities.
Potential project types include:
- Single-family homes
- Duplexes
- Triplexes
- Fourplexes
- Infill residential construction
- Small residential communities
- Build-to-rent housing
- Custom residential projects
- Replacement homes
- Resilient residential construction
Residential projects may be developed for sale, rental, long-term ownership or delivery through a development partnership.
Affordable Housing Developments
Current affordable housing developments may involve partnerships with municipalities, counties, housing authorities, nonprofit organisations, landowners and mission-aligned capital providers.
Potential projects may include:
- Affordable for-sale homes
- Affordable rental housing
- Small multifamily development
- Mixed-income housing
- Scattered-site construction
- Infill housing
- Housing rehabilitation
- Replacement housing
- Publicly supported residential projects
Each project page should identify the intended housing type, development status and participating partners where appropriate.
Veteran Housing Developments
Latitude 98 may pursue current developments designed to create safe, stable and accessible housing for veterans.
Potential project types include:
- Affordable veteran housing
- Permanent veteran residences
- Accessible homes for disabled veterans
- Ageing-in-place housing
- Scattered-site veteran housing
- Small veteran communities
- Rehabilitation of existing homes
- Resilient replacement housing
- Transitional housing with qualified service partners
Latitude 98’s role is focused on development, construction coordination and project execution. Supportive services should be provided by qualified veteran, nonprofit or public-agency partners.
Hurricane Homes
Current Hurricane Homes developments are designed around greater resilience for Florida conditions.
Depending on the project, features may include:
- Engineered structural systems
- Continuous load paths
- Enhanced roof attachment
- Impact-rated windows and exterior doors
- Water-intrusion protection
- Durable exterior materials
- Improved site drainage
- Generator or battery readiness
- Solar capability
- Energy-efficient systems
- Independent engineering
- Approved building products
The actual specifications and resilience features should be stated on the individual project page.
Latitude 98 should not describe a project as hurricane-proof or indestructible unless such a claim can be objectively supported.
Acquisition and Repositioning Projects
Current acquisition and repositioning projects may involve properties that are distressed, outdated, unfinished or underused.
Potential project activities include:
- Property acquisition
- Residential rehabilitation
- Code correction
- Structural repairs
- Interior and exterior renovation
- Energy improvements
- Property stabilization
- Resale preparation
- Leasing
- Long-term ownership
- Demolition and redevelopment
Some projects may be repositioned for sale, while others may become part of Latitude 98’s long-term real estate portfolio.
Airport and Aviation Developments
Latitude 98’s current aviation projects may include development, acquisition or improvement of airport-related real estate.
Potential project categories include:
- Private airports
- Public-use airport improvements
- Aircraft hangars
- Hangar condominiums
- FBO facilities
- Aircraft maintenance facilities
- Flight-school facilities
- Fuel facilities
- Runway and taxiway improvements
- Aviation commercial space
- Airport land redevelopment
- Aviation communities
Aviation projects often involve specialised planning, infrastructure, operational coordination and regulatory review.
Special-Use Developments
Some active projects may not fit a conventional residential or commercial development category.
Current special-use developments may include:
- Community facilities
- Educational properties
- Emergency-resilience facilities
- Faith-based facilities
- Specialty storage
- Recreational properties
- Adaptive-reuse projects
- Mixed-use community properties
- Unusual or entitlement-intensive sites
- Custom aviation-related developments
These projects are evaluated according to their intended use, zoning, operational requirements and construction complexity.
Current Development Stages
Due Diligence
Projects in due diligence are undergoing detailed evaluation before acquisition or full development commitment.
Review may include:
- Title
- Survey
- Zoning
- Future land use
- Environmental conditions
- Wetlands
- Flood zones
- Utilities
- Property condition
- Market demand
- Construction feasibility
- Development costs
A project in due diligence is still subject to review and may not proceed.
Acquisition
Projects in acquisition may be under contract, option, negotiation or another form of site control.
This stage may involve:
- Purchase negotiations
- Contract conditions
- Financing
- Title review
- Inspections
- Survey work
- Closing preparation
- Partnership documentation
Acquisition status does not necessarily mean the property has already closed.
Planning and Entitlements
Projects in planning or entitlement may require:
- Conceptual site planning
- Zoning review
- Rezoning
- Future land-use changes
- Conditional-use approval
- Variances
- Site-plan approval
- Platting
- Utility coordination
- Public hearings
- Agency review
Development concepts may change as the project moves through these processes.
Design and Engineering
Projects in design may involve coordination among:
- Architects
- Civil engineers
- Structural engineers
- Mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineers
- Surveyors
- Landscape architects
- Environmental consultants
- Specialty designers
- Aviation consultants
Conceptual renderings and preliminary plans should be clearly identified as subject to change.
Permitting
Projects in permitting have entered formal review by the applicable building, planning, utility or regulatory agencies.
This stage may involve:
- Plan submission
- Agency comments
- Drawing revisions
- Product approvals
- Utility approvals
- Building permits
- Site permits
- Environmental permits
- Specialty permits
Schedules may change based on review requirements and agency response times.
Construction
Projects under construction may be in:
- Site clearing
- Demolition
- Grading
- Utility installation
- Foundation work
- Structural construction
- Building dry-in
- Mechanical, electrical and plumbing installation
- Interior finishes
- Exterior improvements
- Landscaping
- Final inspections
The project page should be updated as major construction milestones are completed.
Rehabilitation
Projects in rehabilitation may involve:
- Demolition
- Structural repairs
- Roof replacement
- Electrical upgrades
- Plumbing repairs
- HVAC replacement
- Accessibility improvements
- Water-intrusion correction
- Interior renovation
- Exterior restoration
- Code compliance
- Storm or fire-damage repairs
Existing properties may reveal concealed conditions that affect scope, cost or schedule.
Completion and Closeout
Projects approaching completion may be undergoing:
- Final inspections
- Certificate-of-occupancy review
- Punch-list work
- Utility activation
- Landscaping
- Cleaning
- Closeout documentation
- Warranty coordination
- Sales or leasing preparation
- Turnover to an owner or partner
A project should remain classified as current until the principal development and closeout activities are complete.
Individual Current Project Pages
Every significant current development should have its own permanent URL.
The recommended website structure identifies Current Developments as a dedicated project category and calls for individual pages that explain each project’s location, status, type, vision, statistics, timeline, partners and progress.
Each page should include the following information where available.
Project Overview
Explain:
- What Latitude 98 is developing
- Where the project is located
- Why the opportunity was pursued
- The intended use
- Latitude 98’s role
- The current stage
- The expected development outcome
Current Status
Use a clear status label, such as:
- In Due Diligence
- Under Acquisition
- In Planning
- In Entitlement
- In Design
- In Permitting
- Under Construction
- In Rehabilitation
- Nearing Completion
- Leasing
- Available for Sale
Key Project Statistics
Relevant statistics may include:
- Site acreage
- Number of homes or units
- Building square footage
- Number of buildings
- Development type
- Construction start date
- Estimated completion
- Parking count
- Hangar count
- Runway dimensions
- Available homes or spaces
Only current, supportable figures should be published.
Development Vision
Explain the larger purpose of the project.
The vision may involve:
- Creating new housing
- Improving an underused property
- Expanding affordable housing
- Serving veterans
- Increasing housing resilience
- Revitalizing a neighborhood
- Supporting aviation activity
- Creating a specialised community asset
- Preserving and improving an existing building
Project Timeline
The timeline may include:
- Opportunity identification
- Site control
- Due diligence
- Acquisition
- Entitlement
- Design
- Permitting
- Construction start
- Major construction milestones
- Estimated completion
Future dates should be identified as estimates.
Progress Updates
Each active project should include dated updates when meaningful milestones occur.
Updates may cover:
- Property acquisition
- Entitlement approval
- Design completion
- Permit issuance
- Site work
- Foundation completion
- Structural progress
- Building dry-in
- Interior construction
- Infrastructure work
- Final inspections
- Completion
- Sales or leasing availability
Project Information May Change
Current developments evolve as they move through due diligence, design, approvals, financing and construction.
Published project details may change because of:
- Site conditions
- Engineering
- Zoning
- Agency review
- Permitting
- Product availability
- Construction pricing
- Financing
- Market conditions
- Partner decisions
- Weather
- Utility requirements
Latitude 98 should distinguish clearly between approved plans and preliminary concepts.
Conceptual Rendering Disclaimer
Renderings, plans, illustrations and site concepts displayed for current developments are provided for general informational purposes.
They may show proposed buildings, landscaping, furnishings, vehicles, aircraft, materials or features that are not included in the final project.
Final design, dimensions, specifications, materials, availability and construction may change based on engineering, permitting, code requirements, site conditions and other development considerations.
Only final contracts, approved plans and project-specific written documents should be relied upon for binding information.
Following Latitude 98’s Progress
Current developments provide a view into how Latitude 98 moves projects from opportunity identification through planning, construction and completion.
As projects advance, this page should be updated to reflect:
- New acquisitions
- Approval milestones
- Construction progress
- Project announcements
- New partnerships
- Available homes or spaces
- Completed developments