Zellwood

Zellwood Station is one of Central Florida’s most recognized manufactured housing communities — a large-scale, amenity-rich 55+ development spanning hundreds of acres in Orange County. The community includes multiple swimming pools, an 18-hole golf course, a full clubhouse, and an on-site restaurant — the kind of infrastructure that takes decades and significant capital to establish. By the time Starkey Real Estate and
Development engaged with this community, it had long since proven its market appeal. What remained was bringing it to completion.

Starkey’s role here was precise: identify the final 30 undeveloped sites within the community’s entitled footprint, coordinate the infrastructure work required to bring those pads to finished condition, and execute the strategy to fill them. In a community of this scale and maturity, the last sites often present unique challenges — they may be in less prominent locations within the community, require infrastructure extensions from the primary utility grid, or simply be harder to market because they don’t share the same frontage as established sections.

The Starkey team navigated all of it. Working within a community that was simultaneously housing hundreds of existing residents, the buildout had to be executed without disruption to daily community life. Contractor coordination, sequencing of utility work, and careful site preparation were
managed with that constraint in mind.

The lease-up of the final 30 sites completed what Zellwood Station’s original developers began — a community that now stands as a fully built-out, fully occupied example of what large-scale manufactured housing can look like when it’s done right.

For Starkey, this engagement demonstrated the team’s ability to operate within established, complex communities and deliver a focused scope on
time and on budget.