Riverwalk Town Center

Envisors was retained by the Dean R. Erskine Irrevocable Trust to perform land planning (zoning and land use changes), civil engineering design, and permitting services for a mixed commercial use development in the northern area of Mulberry, Florida. The property, formerly known as the Reservation Golf Course, consists of approximately 156 acres of land and is generally located on the west side of North Church Avenue (SR 37), approximately 2 miles north of SR 60. The site is bordered by a railroad track on the east and contains significant flood zones and wetlands, as well as unstable soils due to historic mining activities.

Based on two years of study, planning, surveying, engineering, and meetings with officials, Envisors prepared an overall master plan for a development which will contain in excess of 400,000 square feet of commercial space over a 100-acre ‘developable’ area. The commercial space will consist of big and medium box sites, professional offices, multiple frontage out-parcels, and self-storage mini-warehousing. This site has more than one mile of road frontage along Church Avenue and is designed to help reduce traffic impacts as a result of the inclusion of a north-south internal collector road.

Envisors first provided complete boundary, topographic, and wetland surveying, including setting elevation control and targets for aerial photogrammetry. Based on a proposed conceptual plan, Envisors prepared and processed a large-scale Comprehensive Plan Amendment (CPA) to the Future Land Use Map, which was adopted by the City of Mulberry and found in compliance by the Florida Department of Community Affairs.

Concurrently, Envisors obtained approval of a conceptual and an individual Environmental Resource Permit (ERP) from the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) and the US Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE).

It is anticipated that this project, when constructed, will reduce down-gradient flooding for the City of Mulberry and the surrounding area as a result of the large amount of onsite retention/detention volume, which will also provide in excess of 400-acre feet of floodplain storage. This project included the relocation and mitigation of approximately 25 acres of onsite wetlands.