Sun Bay Townes: What We Know So Far.

Overview: What Is Announced

Mattamy Homes, the largest privately owned homebuilder in North America, announced on January 15, 2026 that it had closed on the Sun Bay Townes site on January 5 as part of three Tampa Bay land acquisitions. The company called it its first community within the City of Tampa.

The plan: 54 three-story townhomes at West Pearl Avenue and South Manhattan Avenue in the Gandy Sun Bay South area. Two floor plan designs are announced, with three to four bedrooms, three to three and a half baths, a two-car garage, and private outdoor space.

Pricing is expected to start in the mid 600s, with site development starting immediately after closing and sales targeted for fall 2026. No homes are for sale as of June 5, 2026.

Quick Facts (All Sourced)

Every row above comes from the builder announcement and press coverage cited on this page. Plans for unbuilt communities change. Treat all of it as announced intent, not a contract.

Location & Context

The site sits in the Gandy corridor of South Tampa, the stretch between the Selmon Expressway and Gandy Boulevard that connects the Tampa peninsula to the Gandy Bridge and St. Petersburg. The same builder announcement covered two more Tampa Bay buys the same month: townhome sites at a waterfront mixed-use project in north St. Petersburg and a roughly 172-home single-family community in Lithia, a useful signal of where this builder thinks Tampa Bay demand is going.

The practical geography: the Gandy area trades yard space for location. From this corner, downtown Tampa, the Westshore business district, MacDill Air Force Base, and the Gandy Bridge to Pinellas County are all short drives, which is the core of the South Tampa townhome thesis. It is also low-lying coastal Tampa, so flood zone and insurance diligence matter more here than in inland communities; pull the FEMA designation for the exact address and get a bindable quote during any contract period.

Momentum's deepest coverage today is north of Tampa in the Pasco corridor, where the same metro growth story plays out at suburban price points. Those guides are the closest comparison set we publish while South Tampa coverage builds out.

For the wider Tampa metro context, start here:

What Is Planned

What the builder has announced: 54 three-story townhomes in two floor plan designs, three to four bedrooms, three to three and a half baths, a two-car garage, and private outdoor space per home.

Pricing is expected from the mid 600s. That is the builder's announced starting point, not a published price sheet; final pricing lands when sales open, targeted for fall 2026.

The builder's own community page is live and collecting interest sign-ups while the community is pre-opening.

Taxes & Costs Context

You cannot compute a real tax bill for a home that does not exist yet, but you can frame the city and county math now.

Sun Bay Townes sits inside the City of Tampa, where the 2025 total millage runs higher than the unincorporated county average because city services are on the bill; the Hillsborough County Property Appraiser final millage table put Tampa parcels at roughly 19.7 mills for 2025. For context, the Hillsborough County figure in our FY2025-26 millage file is a typical total of about 15.73 mills, and actual parcel totals vary by municipality and taxing district, so treat it as a planning number, not a quote.

A 54-home townhome community will almost certainly carry an HOA for shared exteriors, insurance on common elements, and grounds, and townhome HOA budgets in coastal Florida are sensitive to master insurance costs. Nothing has been published for Sun Bay Townes yet, so we are not quoting a number. When the builder publishes dues, they will appear here with a source.

The structural note that applies to every new build: the first-year tax bill is often assessed on land value only, then resets to the full improved value the following year. In a high-millage city location at mid 600s pricing, that second-year jump is real money. Budget the second-year number.

Schools

The site is inside the Hillsborough County Public Schools district. School assignment for a brand-new address is set by the district and can change as boundaries are redrawn, so confirm zoning for a specific address with the HCPS school locator rather than relying on third-party estimates this early.

The Timeline

This is the dated record of how Sun Bay Townes has moved from announcement toward opening. It grows as facts land.

• January 5, 2026Mattamy Homes closes on the Sun Bay Townes site at West Pearl Avenue and South Manhattan Avenue, its first community within Tampa city limits. Source: Mattamy Homes press release (PR Newswire), 2026-01-15.
• January 15, 2026Builder announces the project publicly: 54 three-story townhomes, two floor plan designs, pricing expected from the mid 600s, development starting immediately, sales targeted fall 2026. Local business press covers the three-site Tampa Bay expansion the same day. Source: Tampa Bay Business and Wealth, 2026-01-15.
• June 2026Builder community page live and collecting interest sign-ups. No pricing sheet or sales date published yet beyond the fall 2026 target. Source: Mattamy Homes official community page, 2026-06-05.

As of June 5, 2026 the builder is targeting a fall 2026 sales opening. New-community timelines move; treat dates as targets until the sales office opens.

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