Press Release: Arvida
August 13, 2001
BIRMINGHAM, AL -- Two new Coastal Living Idea Houses will be open September 1 in WaterColor, a new Southern coastal
community in Northwest Florida developed by Arvida, the community development arm of The St. Joe Company (NYSE:JOE
- news). The houses are located in Rose Garden Mews, one of the nine neighborhoods within the first phase of WaterColor,
and will be featured in the November/December issue of Coastal Living on newsstands October 30.
Visitors can tour the houses Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The houses are closed on Monday. A portion of the $5 admission will benefit the United Way of Okaloosa/Walton Counties.
The Idea Houses will remain open through January 6, 2002. The plans for the homes will be available after September
1 from the Coastal Living House Plans Service at 800/755-1122.
Arvida is a primary developer of master-planned residential, resort and business communities nationwide. Since
Arthur Vining Davis founded the company more than 40 years ago, Arvida has completed more than 60 planned communities
comprising more than 40,000 new homes and 28 golf courses in Florida, Georgia, Texas, California and North Carolina.
Two of its newest communities, WaterColor and WaterSound, as well as Camp Creek Golf Club, are currently being
developed in Walton County.
St. Joe, a publicly held company based in Jacksonville, is Florida's largest real estate operating company. It
is engaged in community, commercial, industrial, leisure, hospitality and resort development, along with residential
and commercial real estate services. The company also has significant interests in timber.
More information about Arvida can be found at http://www.arvida.com. Additional
information about St. Joe can be found at http://www.joe.com.
Coastal Living (www.coastalliving.com) is published by Southern Progress
Corporation. Covering the shorelines and bay area of the East, West and Gulf coasts, the magazine taps into the
uniqueness of the coastal lifestyle and the common threads that connect people who love being by the shore.
Southern Progress also publishes Southern Living, Cooking Light, Progressive Farmer, Southern Accents and Health
magazines, as well as Oxmoor House books. The Birmingham-based subsidiary of Time Inc. is a leading publisher of
lifestyle information.
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Contact:
Arvida, a St. Joe company, Boca Raton, Fla.
Media Contact: Pamela Selton or Karen Terrell
850/233-3032, 850/914-6176
or
Coastal Living
Hollye Ferguson, 205/445-6032
hollye_ferguson@timeinc.com
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