Esplanade at Wiregrass Ranch

Esplanade at Wiregrass Ranch is a gated, guard-attended 55+ resort-style community by Taylor Morrison in Wesley Chapel, Florida, about 30 minutes north of downtown Tampa. Construction began in Summer 2019, and at buildout the community will span more than 480 acres with 868 single-family and detached villa homes. It was named the 2023 Single-Family Community of the Year by the Tampa Bay Builders Association and represents Taylor Morrison's first age-restricted development in the Tampa Bay Area. The community is built around its preserved wetlands, lakes, and native Florida landscape, giving the neighborhood a distinctive character that pairs Esplanade's signature California Tuscan architecture — tile roofs, ornamental stucco detailing, tray ceilings, crown molding, and designer landscaping — with a more naturalistic setting past the front gate. Homes range from roughly 1,689 to 3,697 square feet across roughly a dozen single-family and villa floor plans (Roma, Lazio, Arezzo, Farnese, Pallazio and others), with 2 to 5 bedrooms, open-concept interiors, smart home features, and extensive structural and design options through Taylor Morrison's Canvas design studio. Villas are attached homes on 45-foot lots; single-family homes sit on a mix of larger lots, many backing to wetlands or water views. Social life centers on The Venue, the community's clubhouse, which houses a 24-hour fitness and aerobics center, meeting and gathering rooms, a catering kitchen, a billiard room, and a multi-purpose room. Outside, residents have a heated lagoon-style resort pool and spa, a separate resistance pool, an outdoor barbecue and dining area, a formal events lawn, a fitness lawn, fireside seating, walking trails through the wetland preserves, a fenced bark park, and a tot lot for visiting grandchildren. Sports courts include tennis, pickleball, and bocce ball, and the community participates in inter-Esplanade tournaments like the annual "Battle of the Esplanades" pickleball event. The real signature amenity is the on-site Koquina Sand Spa, which offers facials, massages, and wellness treatments — a rare feature inside a community clubhouse. A full-time Lifestyle Manager curates a year-round calendar of wine tastings, culinary experiences, live concerts, group excursions, fitness classes, and social events, and also arranges concierge perks like discounted rates on hotels, dry cleaning, pet care, and transportation. There's even a doggie concierge program with pet spa days and pet birthday celebrations. Organized activities tend to cluster around pickleball, tennis, bocce, fitness classes, gardening (there are dedicated gardening plots and a demonstration kitchen), and social/culinary programming rather than a traditional roster of dozens of hobby clubs — the community is still growing, and the club roster expands as residents move in. Location is a major draw. Esplanade sits about two miles west of I-75, roughly 30 minutes from downtown Tampa and 35 minutes from Tampa International Airport, with Orlando about 64 miles east. AdventHealth Wesley Chapel hospital is just minutes away, BayCare Hospital is nearby, and the Shops at Wiregrass, Tampa Premium Outlets, and a deep bench of Wesley Chapel restaurants and medical offices are all within a short drive. Gulf Coast beaches are about 45 minutes west. The HOA is low for the amenity set — roughly $101 for villas up to $539 per month for single-family homes — and covers lawn maintenance, irrigation water, cable, internet, trash, and common grounds; the community is also inside a Wiregrass-area CDD, which adds an annual assessment to the tax bill.