Winthrop is a 148-acre master-planned community in Riverview, Florida, centered around neighborhood living, residences, local businesses, parks, lakes, and everyday amenities within a connected urban design.
Winthrop was founded by local residents Kay and John Sullivan and John’s brother Neil Sullivan and designed with the principles of new urbanism. In January 2000, new urbanist giant Andrés Duany and his firm DPZ led the community-wide design charrette to draw Winthrop’s plan. For nearly three decades since, the Sullivans have been executing against that master plan.
Today, Winthrop includes several distinct districts within the community: Winthrop Town Centre, Winthrop Common, and Winthrop Village, with more on the way. Winthrop is nearly 60% complete.
Winthrop is family owned and operated by its founders — who live in the town centre, above Winthrop headquarters.
The dense, mixed-use commercial district of Winthrop — the walkable main street lined with shops, restaurants, offices, and apartments above ground-floor retail. Centered on Winthrop Market Street, Town Centre is where Winthrop’s daily life happens.
Learn more →The central civic square at the heart of Winthrop — a green public space designed for community events, gatherings, and the everyday rhythm of Winthrop life.
Learn more →The residential district of Winthrop — single-family homes on oak-shaded streets, designed for walkability and front-porch community. Garages tucked behind, front porches facing the street.
Learn more →The way we build our places determines the quality of our social lives. Front porches, narrow streets, and shop owners who know you—we design for neighbors meeting neighbors. This is our north star.
A community where kids can roam to school, the park, or a friend’s house on their own two feet. When we design for children first, then our community works for everybody.
Beauty is essential to our well-being. Columns, arches, façades: these are not simply decoration. Buildings are the backdrops for our lives.
Designed for the pedestrian before the car — every front door is within a five-minute walk of daily life. Walking is key to health for all and critical to independence for kids and the elderly, especially.
Homes, shops, offices, schools, and gathering spaces all in one community. We're meant to live integrated lives where we live, work, learn, and play in cohesive neighborhoods.
A neighborhood for every chapter of life — from kids on bikes to grandparents on the front porch and every season in between. Communities thrive when we have people from every stage of life living alongside each other.
A dream, a book, and a 148-acre dairy farm. How Kay, John, and Neil Sullivan turned their vision for community into a walkable small-town.
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