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LAKEWOOD RANCH — Lakewood Ranch, a master-planned community in Sarasota and east Manatee counties, continues expanding with the announcement of three additional tenants that will open in the community’s 36-acre Waterside Place development.
Waterside Place is scheduled to open this fall with a mix of retail, dining, wellness and entertainment options. Bella Vita Italian restaurant, Bay Area Aesthetics and Lakewood Ranch Medical Group were the most recent tenants added to the growing list, according to a statement.
Bella Vita will be an authentic Italian restaurant created and inspired by restaurateur and Italian native Giuseppe “Peppe” del Sol of Napule restaurant in Sarasota. Bay Area Aesthetics is a locally-owned medical spa led by Amy Lauvray Hurlebaus. The medical group is planning to open a 7,000 square foot primary care facility at Waterside Place this fall.
Andy Guz, CEO of Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, anticipates the facility will initially staff two physicians who can accommodate up to 60 patients per day.
“Our mantra, when it comes to leasing at Waterside Place, is to look for only best-in-class restaurateurs, retailers and shops, which has been a successful focus as shown by the quality of our current tenant list,” says Kirk Boylston, president of Lakewood Ranch Commercial, in the press release. “Without exception, these tenants are among the best in the region and will provide an unmatched user experience at Waterside Place. We clearly have narrowed the pool of candidate tenants, but the level of quality in the design, construction and programming at Waterside Place has allowed us to be successful as we continue to lease up the project.”
Waterside Place will be Lakewood Ranch’s first Sarasota village, according to the press release. It will feature 115,000 square feet of in-line and freestanding commercial, retail and office space, dining options, an eight-acre park, nature trails, communal “pop-up” spaces, a water splash park and more.
The village will be the host of festivals, music and sporting events, working with tenants to create custom programming. Additionally, it will be the home for the Farmers’ Market at LWR.
The three new tenants will join previously announced tenants, including:
Other future amenities include the Players Centre for Performing Arts, which is relocating from Downtown Sarasota to a 70,000 square foot performing arts center at Waterside Place.
Waterside will feature more than 5,000 for-sale and rental homes in a variety of neighborhoods ranging from $280,000 to over $2 million. To date, over 1,300 homes have been sold or leased in Waterside’s Shoreview, Lakehouse Cove, The Adley, Botanic, and Grande Living neighborhoods. Lakewood Ranch was founded in 1994 and spans over 20 villages.
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