Growing with Purpose

Gulf-front Dreams Come True

Story and photography courtesy of Alys Beach

As Alys Beach celebrates twenty years of luxury living on the gorgeous Gulf Coast of Northwest Florida, potential homebuyers can rejoice at two new opportunities to own in the exclusive coastal enclave. There is no other modern neighborhood like this in Florida—an urban setting of different building types near an extraordinary beach, further distinguished by its viewing corridors defined by the north-south orientation of streets and pathways from the Nature Preserve to the Gulf. Located adjacent to the private owners’ Beach Club and the Beach Plaza, The August condominium residences and Somersisle Terrace rowhome residences are designed to blend the beauty of urban, luxury living with the serenity and ease of living just steps from Alys Beach’s 1,500-linear-foot stretch of white-sand beaches.

The August

The August building coming to Alys Beach, Florida

Before this building was known as The August, it was known informally as the Flatiron, a reference to its unusual but memorable shape similar to the most famous Flatiron building in New York between Fifth Avenue and Broadway at Madison Park. Almost every city has sites between converging streets like Alys Beach’s South Somerset Street and Castle Harbor, and these buildings are almost always thought of fondly or proudly.

The August lies near the Beach Club and the Gulf-front Plaza in Alys Beach. The building’s most memorable aspect may be its narrow end with a large round porch, but the convex Juan Bermudez Crescent produces beautiful aspects facing the rest of the town. Somerset Street, starting on the north side of the town near the pine woods, descends from 30-A and rises again at the Plaza to provide a great path to the water for homeowners and guests. There are also no buildings close by to diminish views or privacy, thanks to an absence of common property lines between The August and adjacent properties. The building’s shape allows most residences to be corner units with two street exposures and an extraordinary amount of exterior walls, bringing in lots of daylight with nearly floor-to-ceiling windows. And once you are inside, there will be little sense of adjacent residences but every sense of the bigger setting.

Somersisle Terrace

Somersisle Terrace rowhomes coming to Alys Beach, Florida

“Lining Alys Beach’s ‘Main Street’ leading from its town center to the Gulf of Mexico, Somersisle Terrace occupies a prominent place between the retail and resort offerings at either end,” describe the Alys Beach Town Architects, Marieanne Khoury-Vogt and Erik Vogt, along with their team at Khoury Vogt Architects. “As such, it is modeled after the grand Terrace Rows of Georgian London, rising four stories above an elevated stoop and landscaped dooryard. Second-floor living affords Gulf views from its front porch and balcony, while an elevated loggia, court, and pool on its west side enjoy the western sunset. Four-bedroom suites are distributed on three floors, with the principal suite on the third floor afforded its own private porch and balcony above the public one below. Above it all, a generous fourth-floor eastern terrace forms an outdoor living room, while a western one offers dining alfresco before the setting sun. Both enjoy sweeping panoramic views overlooking the town and Gulf.”

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Visit AlysBeach.com/the-august and AlysBeach.com/somersisle-terrace to learn more or contact a real estate professional about this beautiful opportunity to live a Life Defined.