No butts allowed

You'll find Starbucks coffee, iPads built into countertops and dog parks at Crescent Crosstown, but you won't see smokers lighting up cigarettes at the 25-acre retreat-style community.

Smoking isn't allowed indoors or outside at the newly built $37 million apartment complex near Interstate 75 and the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway in Brandon.

Crescent Communities LLC is at the forefront of what it expects to become a commercial real estate trend. All eight of its apartment communities under construction in the Southeast, including Crescent Bayshore in Tampa's Hyde Park, will be smoke-free, says Jay Curran, vice president of the Charlotte, N.C.-based company's multifamily group.