Sheffield Greene is a maintenance-free, low-rise condominium enclave inside The Meadows, an established Sarasota County planned community. The buildings date to roughly 1990 to 1993, with mostly one and two bedroom units and screened lanais, set among the mature oaks, lakes, and trails that define The Meadows (community listings and association materials, 2026).
The wider Meadows was developed beginning in the mid-1970s by the British firm Taylor Woodrow on more than 1,000 acres of former ranchland west of Honore Avenue and north of 17th Street, and built out over about two decades with villas, condos, garden homes, and single-family houses. The community spans roughly 1,650 acres with more than 3,500 residences, over 80 lakes and ponds, and about 14 miles of walking and biking trails (Meadows Community Association, 2026).
Because Sheffield Greene is a condo enclave, the money is made or lost on the association budget, the reserve study, and the building condition, plus the wider Meadows Community Association assessment, not on a headline price. Florida's tightened condo reserve and structural-inspection rules make those financials the center of diligence.
The pitch is a lock-and-leave, maintenance-free lifestyle in a green, central Sarasota setting minutes from I-75, the University Town Center shopping and dining corridor, Nathan Benderson Park, and downtown Sarasota. The work is reading the two fee layers, the reserves, and the amenity picture, which is itself in flux given the recent country club bankruptcy and the contested golf-land plan.
