The intentions of this video is to drive through different neighborhoods here in Sarasota as if you
were doing the driving yourself to get a better idea of what the neighborhood feels like so let's
do some driving we're in a gated community called Prestancia it's a golfing community
and it's located in Palmer Ranch. Palmer Ranch has lots of different communities some of it
some of them are gated some of them are not., you have single family homes here,
condominiums. What I like about Palmer Ranch and I've talked about it before in
some of my videos and that is Palmer Ranch is very centrally located in Sarasota. We're about seven
to eight miles out from Siesta Key beach you're 20 minutes away from downtown you're relatively
close to 75 in case you know somebody wanted to drive up to St Petersburg or maybe Naples
and the area is really it's really green very well taken care of there are a lot of new communities
here that have you know sprung up over the last few years really dedicated towards providing
people kind of that resort style living you know with an amenity center a lot of them have
tennis courts a gym now you can see there's some thunderclouds coming in you should be able to see
it on video and we're getting closer to summer which means that these clouds can come in really
fast you know the summers tend to be very rainy so let's see what today does hopefully i'll be
able to get some good shots in with not a lot of rain in the video hopefully not any rain
okay so it's raining now and you know this is typically what it's like in the summertime
we're on Gulf Gate Drive which is the main road that goes through Gulf Gate.
Gulf Gate is a neighborhood that is adjacent to Palmer Ranch it's actually further west
and what I like about Gulf Gate is that it is more affordable than to live in Palmer Ranch
most of the homes here are ranch style because the homes are older it really gives somebody an
opportunity to purchase a more affordable home with the idea of fixing it up later
the area is in a deed restricted area so you know things are very well taken
care of here i'm going to go into one of the neighboring streets.
Gulf Gate is centrally located it's actually even closer to Siesta Key than Palmer Ranch by
a few minutes so you're close to Siesta Key close to downtown sarasota really close to all major
points of interest in Sarasota and again it's more affordable living here than it is in Palmer Ranch
because Gulf Gate is an older community the homes typically have more property around them than in
some of the new developments in Palmer Ranch for example if you were to buy into Talon Preserve
or say the Grand Park which is east of 75 you do get a lot of amenities that come with the property
there's typically less property that come with these new developments so in Gulf Gate is a
cute village it's actually set on two streets Superior Avenue and i think the other one is
Gateway and this area is completely evolving there are new restaurants that moved in here Brine is
one that just moved in I want to say about three or four months ago the opus restaurant
and lounge is opening up soon it's in front of us it's not even open yet there are restaurants here
bars cute little coffee shop called the clever cup another benefit of living in Gulf Gate is
that you have this village to go to if you don't want to go to siesta key or downtown
okay so we're heading over to east of 75 we're actually going to be crossing it right now and
it definitely has become what i would say up and coming area over the last few years
a lot of developers are needing to go east of 75 because there just isn't that much to develop
on anymore west of 75 now there are all these new communities that are springing up the Grand Park,
Skye ranch we're actually heading over to Skye ranch the location is really good because all
you have to do is hop on to clark and then take take it straight down to Siesta Key hop on 75 and
take that up to Lakewood Ranch this is a great area for somebody that wants to be close to all
major points of interest but yet away from the hustle and bustle of sarasota so we're going to
make a right into Skye Ranch Skye Ranch is a new community and the esplanade just opened here they
have plenty of amenities that they're offering here look how beautiful it is just to drive
now i think this video is going to be able to pick up that there's a lot of undeveloped land
yet and that's because this truly is a new community it's still in the works they're
continuing to build you can actually see in the far distance there homes that are in the middle of
construction all right so we're going to exit Skye Ranch i'm going to hop back on clark and then
we're going to go past highway 75 continue down on clark all the way into Siesta Key so the next
neighborhood is going to be Siesta Key i think i'm definitely going to stop recording today and we'll
continue on another day because you can't even see anything right now it's coming in really happy
looks like we're actually getting a little bit of a break from the thunder clouds it's not raining
so we're heading over to Siesta Key and we're over we're heading over the bridge right now
so what we're going to do is go past Siesta Key beach which is going to come up to our left
shortly and we're going to drive past the village and once we pass a village i'm going to go into
some of the neighborhoods that are kind of inland on Siesta Key so here you can live in different
ways there are waterfront mansions condominiums apartments and smaller single family homes
in cute little neighborhoods during peak season it does get really crowded
lots of tourists come here and there's only two ways in and out of the island
there's one entrance on the southern side and one on the northern side
we're in Siesta Key village right now the village is actually not that big but it does get crowded
there still is lots to do really nice restaurants here live music cocktail lounges
all right so we're coming to the tail end of the
village i'm gonna drive into some of the neighborhoods here
and in these neighborhoods you'll see all sorts of different styles
of homes lots of mature trees on the island as you can see
when you drive in these neighborhoods here in Siesta Key you actually don't
even feel like you're on Siesta Key it feels like you're on the main land
which is kind of nice because it's really quaint here but yet you're so
close to Siesta Key beach in some cases in walking distance and also to the bay side
so we're on Tamiami Trail which is 41. Tamiami stands for Tampa to Miami it's our main road
here in Sarasota that connects the southern part to the northern part and all the side streets kind
of stem off Tamiami Trail i'm gonna make a left on Hillview street in front of me is the Sarasota
memorial hospital we're gonna drive through an area called Southside Village it's a very quaint
area it comes with a price tag very expensive to acquire home here typically over a million dollars
driving through Hillview which is an area that includes restaurants and bars what i like about
Southside Village is that you have Hillview to go to for you know dinner or some drinks
and right here on osprey i'm going to turn on osprey there's Morton's Plaza which
includes the Morton's Gourmet market so like i said the homes here come with a price tag it's
it's a really expensive enabled it's non-gated from an architectural standpoint
there's a lot of different homes to be found here in this neighborhood
the location is great it's so close to downtown
you're literally five minutes away from downtown driving maybe not even that
we're driving into downtown sarasota around the bay front area here
and you'll see our high rises to my right with beautiful views of the bay and the ringling bridge
of course as you can imagine it's not cheap to live here the most expensive part of downtown
but they're more affordable areas to live in and i'm gonna drive through one of them that's
the Rosemary District i'm gonna go up main street which is gonna come come up to my right here okay
all right so we're on main street now
pretty empty here today and i would say it's probably because it's been raining on and off
not the greatest weather today and i was even thinking of going home and reshooting this video
but i thought well you know what it's not always going to be sunny here in sarasota
so i'm going to give you a view of what it's like when it's not we're still on main street
main street keeps evolving there are new restaurants new bars that are coming up
which is going to be exciting there are a lot of festivals that happen here
right now it's Pride month so you can probably see the signs here to the right we have art festivals
here the chalk festival used to be here and then i think they took it to Venice but i think they
might be bringing it back down to Sarasota i have to look into that i'm not totally sure
we're entering Laurel Park which is a neighborhood downtown
and you'll find here are mainly single family homes
it's a historic part of town homes here some of them are quite old definitely need renovations
a lot of them have been renovated though there's some new homes that are being built
in this neighborhood what people love about this neighborhood is that it's close to downtown and
walking distance so you have everything that downtown has to offer without needing to live
in a high rise so this is great for somebody who actually wants to live in a single family home
with a little bit of a garden some property around them it's a really cute eclectic neighborhood
we're on Fruitville and i'm gonna make a right off Fruitville to get into
Rosemary District the Rosemary District is a neighborhood that's really close to downtown
it's walkable to all things downtown including main street but it's more affordable to live
there there's been a lot of development happening in the Rosemary District over
the last four or five years a lot of new buildings here's one of them in the Arcos
this area is really kind of coming to life you know with all the developments happening
in downtown a lot of it has been on this side i like about the Rosemary District is that things
are more affordable here there's less traffic than there is right in downtown you're really close to
The Bay project which is a development project that is being planned by where van Wezel is
they're completely redesigning that area and in my opinion it is going to for sarasota what
the St. Pete Pier did for downtown St. Petersburg which essentially is now the heartbeat of St Pete
and I do believe The Bay will become the heartbeat of downtown sarasota i hope you found value in
this video and i gave you a better idea of what the neighborhoods are like if you enjoyed this
video and you want to see more videos like this one well i really like driving so i would love to
do more of these but i want to make sure that you actually got value out of it take care