Construction starts on final stage of Bradenton apartment project

The new addition will be a 240-unit apartment community named Blue Heron Preserve that will help form an interconnected complex known as Blue Heron Living Community.

By Louis Llovio
| 8:00 a.m. September 27, 2025
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Developer begins work on Blue Heron Preserve, a Bradenton apartment community.

Manatee-Sarasota

Cedarwood Development has begun construction on the final phase of its Bradenton rental community project, just west of Interstate 75 outside Lakewood Ranch,

The new addition will be a 240-unit apartment community named Blue Heron Preserve. It joins Blue Heron Creek and Blue Heron Lakes to form an interconnected complex known as Blue Heron Living Community.

The developer says when complete the community will have 696 units across 116.64 acres off of State Road 64.

More than half that acreage has been preserved as wetlands, ponds and greenspace.

Along with the additional units, Blue Heron Preserve will add a food truck court, a multi-sport gaming area and a private events pavilion to the existing amenities.

The newest units are expected to be completed by spring 2027.

Ohio based Cedarwood was founded in 1972 and has completed more than 25 million square feet of projects in 43 states according to its website.

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Louis Llovio

Louis Llovio is the deputy managing editor at the Business Observer. Before going to work at the Observer, the longtime business writer worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Maryland Daily Record and for the Baltimore Sun Media Group. He lives in Tampa.