Fresh off completing the largest known 3D-printed homes community in Texas, Lennar is proposing to incorporate 3D-printed homes in one of its south Miami-Dade County projects.
Miami-based Lennar, led by Stuart Miller and Jon Jaffe, is proposing 3D-printed model homes at the 31-acre development site where it plans 88 homes in the Redland neighborhood, according to its application filed last week.
The development site is on the northeast corner of Southwest 288th Street and Krome Avenue in unincorporated Miami-Dade. Lennar paid $16.3 million for the property in September.
The 3-D printing applies only to the model homes, but the move signals that Lennar is expanding its use of the efficient construction technology to South Florida. This spring, Lennar completed a 100-home community in Georgetown, Texas, where all homes were 3D-printed. Lennar partnered with Austin, Texas-based Icon on that project.
Lennar has a reputation for its efficient development and sales approach.
In 3D-printed homes, a large printer “layers a concrete-like material to form the structural walls of each residence,” Lennar’s attorney, Alberto Torres, wrote in the application. The homes will be “durable, code-compliant” and “architecturally comparable in scale and appearance” to the conventional homes already approved for the project.
Lennar, co-founded by Miller’s late father, Leonard Miller, in the 1950s, is the second biggest homebuilder in the U.S. and the most dominant one in south Miami-Dade. The area –– home to the municipalities of Homestead and Florida City, as well as the neighborhoods of Naranja, Princeton, Leisure City, Goulds, Perrine and Redland –– has an ample supply of buildable land that sells for less than sites in Miami’s prime areas.
Lennar holds a near-monopoly on south Miami-Dade homebuilding through its partnerships with land banks, which allow it to stockpile development sites until it’s ready to start developing them.
Some of Lennar’s other south Miami-Dade projects are a planned 106-townhome community on the northwest corner of Southwest 338th Street and Southwest 192nd Avenue near Homestead.
Near Goulds, Lennar plans Rodan Estates with 138 homes on the southeast corner of Southwest 220th Street and Southwest 133rd Court.
In its biggest proposal, Lennar, in partnership with developers Ed Easton and Bill Albers, wants to develop City Park with 7,800 residential units that will include single-family homes, townhomes and apartments; 2.4 million square feet of commercial space, including office space, retail, dining and schools; and open space. The project is proposed for a nearly 1,000-acre land tract in south Miami-Dade, outside Miami-Dade’s Urban Development Boundary, the line meant to curb suburban sprawl west toward the Everglades.
City Park requires a supermajority approval from Miami-Dade commissioners.
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