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Settle Into Something Better

Coordinates You Want to Come Home To

Most new communities ask you to trade convenience for new construction. Gracewater asks a better question. What if you didn’t have to?

Located west of I-75 and just minutes from downtown, Gracewater offers thoughtfully designed new homes in a gated neighborhood that keeps you connected to everything that makes Sarasota worth living in. Less driving. More living. It’s the rare new community that feels integrated into the city instead of detached from it.

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Downtown Sarasota skyline across the bay from the causeway, with palms, a waterfront park and a pier

We’re Right Here

Sarasota Deserves Better Than a Long Commute Home

For years, “new construction” has quietly become a signifier for “farther away.” Farther from downtown, the waterfront, your favorite restaurants. Farther from the things that made you choose Sarasota in the first place. Gracewater changes that.

Here, your everyday starts closer to the city — and somehow feels more relaxed because of it.

  • Man pours white wine for a smiling woman in a yellow floral dress at an outdoor table with a cheese and salad plate
  • Night aerial view of a busy roundabout with light trails between high-rise towers
  • Ca' d'Zan mansion at the Ringling, a terracotta Venetian-style house behind tall palm trees

Close To Everything

Exactly where a new neighborhood should have been all along

The best beach days are often the spontaneous ones. When Siesta Key, Lido Key, Longboat Key, and the Gulf’s turquoise shoreline are just a short drive away, there’s no need to reserve an entire day. Grab your towel after work, meet friends for sunset, or spend a quiet Sunday morning with your toes in the sand. Around here, the coast is simply part of your routine.

Discover just how close Gracewater is to everything

The Area

Community Favorites

Local Gems

  • Payne Park, Sarasota: kids and a parent walking across a sunlit lawn under a large tree
    Payne Park
  • Aerial view of Manatee Public Beach with turquoise Gulf water, dunes and a road along the shore
    Manatee Public Beach
  • Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota with shingled roof, green signage, a tall palm tree and a blue metal sculpture
    Florida Studio Theatre
  • Sarasota Opera House with peach stucco walls, red tile roofs and arched colonnade, framed by palm trees along a street
    Sarasota Opera House
  • Lido Key: two white ibis feeding in the surf at sunset
    Lido Key
  • Scoops & Sprinkles Creamery: a child holding a waffle cone with three scoops of ice cream
    Scoops & Sprinkles Creamery
  • Siesta Key Beach: couple carrying striped beach chairs over a dune path toward the water at sunset
    Siesta Key Beach
  • Two children riding bikes down a curving tree-lined neighborhood street in evening light
    The Neighborhood

Destinations All Around Us

Sarasota, Without the Detour

Less windshield. More Sarasota. West of I-75. Less than ten minutes to downtown. Minutes from SRQ. Close to Sarasota Memorial. Easy access to your favorite beaches. Sarasota has always been the destination. The waterfront. The restaurants. Saturday mornings downtown. Sunset at the beach. The arts. The energy.

Sarasota Art Museum: concrete and glass entrance on a brick building with wide steps at dusk

Arts & Entertainment

Sarasota Art Museum

1001 S Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34236 Website

Sarasota Art Museum is a contemporary art museum housed in a restored historic high school building in Sarasota, Florida. As the region's leading museum dedicated exclusively to modern and contemporary art, it presents rotating exhibitions by nationally and internationally recognized artists alongside educational programs and community events.

Mother carrying a toddler and holding a boy's hand as they walk across a sandy beach at sunset Golfer in a cap mid-swing on a fairway at sunset, with palm trees, green hills and a long shadow on the grass

Move Closer

Closer Looks Good on You

Home isn't where you escape from life. It's where life gets sweeter.

There was a time when buying a new home meant moving farther away. Farther from downtown. Farther from your favorite restaurants. Farther from your friends. Farther from the reasons you chose Sarasota in the first place. Somewhere along the way, convenience became a compromise. Gracewater believes it shouldn't be.

We believe luxury isn't measured by excess. It's measured by ease. It's having dinner downtown without checking traffic first. Meeting friends on a Wednesday because it's only a few minutes away. Stopping by the farmers market because you're already nearby. Being home in time for sunset.

Our homes are beautifully designed. Our amenities are thoughtfully considered. But neither is the whole point. Our reason is creating a neighborhood that lets Sarasota remain part of your everyday life. Because a home should never pull you away from the place you love. It should bring you closer to it.

Gracewater isn't just in a better location — we also deliver noticeably better homes.

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