From rubble to regal [South Florida]
‘Builders put their models somewhere in the back of the estates area … you see lots of houses fronting busy streets in West Palm Beach, for example. People don’t mind showing off their homes.’
— builder Fred Brunoli, on the choice of location for the Octavian model on Collier Boulevard near the Marco Island Yacht Club
Consciously or unwittingly, motorists have watched it rise from the rubble of a teardown to the imposing starter castle recently completed on Collier Boulevard near the Marco Island Yacht Club.
It’s the Octavian model, a 4,700 square-foot under air, two-story home with four bedrooms, four-and-a-half bathrooms and accompanying bells and whistles that justify its approximate $3.5 million value.