Pictured: Designed around an open floor plan, the Stellar model, from the Echelon Series, blends flexible gathering rooms with professional-style kitchens and spacious dining areas.

 Pulte Homes, one of the nation’s most recognized and trusted brands in homebuilding for 70 years, has unveiled the 12 consumer-inspired home designs to be offered in Arbor Oaks, the homebuilder’s newest active resort-style neighborhood of 341 single-family homes in The Woodlands area of North Port. Pulte has also started construction of four professionally designed model homes that will illustrate the flexibility and personalization opportunities available to homebuyers in the new Arbor Oaks community. The model homes are expected to open in Fall 2023. Nestled within a serene 190 acres offering water, wetland preserve and landscape views, Arbor Oaks is the third PulteGroup community in The Woodlands, alongside Centex’s Cedar Grove and Del Webb’s Cypress Falls. The Woodlands offers a sought-after location close to the Sarasota region’s shopping, dining, entertainment, world-class golf courses, outdoor recreation, and the region’s famous white-sand beaches. Arbor Oaks offers three collections of homes – the Scenic, Distinctive and Echelon series – on three sizes of homesites. Single-story floor plans cater to an array of lifestyles and feature two to four bedrooms, up to four-and-a-half baths and 1,405 to 3,000 square feet of indoor living space. The four model homes will showcase Pulte’s signature quality new-home construction and consumer-first designs featuring modern open-concept floor plans that blend gathering spaces, dining areas and kitchens, and seamlessly flow to spacious covered lanais capturing Florida’s coveted outdoor lifestyle. Located off Panacea Boulevard in Sarasota County with a secondary entrance at Plantation Boulevard, residents enjoy a convenient location within minutes of grocery shopping, everyday essentials, and national and local restaurants. Arbor Oaks is minutes from I-75 via Exit 179/Toledo Blade Blvd. and U.S. 41. And, only 18 minutes from the growing Punta Gorda Airport and 50 minutes from the Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers. Arbor Oaks is also close to four 18-hole championship golf courses, top-rated medical facilities, hospitals and schools, as well as the area’s many state, county and city parks offering canoeing, kayaking, fishing, athletic fields, camping and bike, hiking and nature trails. For beachgoers and anglers, Arbor Oaks is only 30 minutes from Venice, the “City on the Gulf,” known for its popular fishing pier, ancient shark’s teeth, marinas and miles of Gulf of Mexico beaches. Sarasota’s famed white-sand Siesta Key Beach is also nearby as is Stump Pass State Park. For more information and community updates about Arbor Oaks, visit www.ArborOaksFL.com or call 941-541-2966.

Pictured: Designed around an open floor plan, the Stellar model, from the Echelon Series, blends flexible gathering rooms with professional-style kitchens and spacious dining areas.