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🏡 Ronnie Ward - Florida REALTOR®
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📍 Palm Coast | Flagler Beach | Daytona Beach | St. I love helping people find their dream homes in the Sunshine State, whether it's a cozy beachside bungalow or a luxurious waterfront estate. When I'm not busy with real estate,

you can often find me out on the water, indulging in one of my favorite pastimes: fishing. Florida's diverse waterways offer some of the best fishing in the country, and I'm always eager to share my favorite spots and stories with fellow enthusiasts. With my deep roots in Florida, I have a unique understanding of the local market and an unwavering commitment to providing exceptional service to my clients. Whether you're buying, selling, or investing, I'm here to help you navigate the real estate market with confidence and ease.

11/01/2025

🐬 MARINELAND SALE BLOCKED — JUDGE PUTS BRAKES ON $7.1 MILLION DEAL

The story of Marineland Dolphin Adventure just took a huge turn — and it’s one that has the whole community talking.

A Delaware bankruptcy judge has rejected the proposed $7.1 million sale of Marineland Dolphin Adventure to Texas-based Delightful Development LLC, saying the process wasn’t fair and that a local community coalition deserves a serious chance to buy the property.

This means the sale is officially on hold, and the future of one of Florida’s most historic coastal attractions is once again uncertain.

Here’s what’s happening right now:
• Delightful Development LLC placed the high bid at an October 13 auction, beating the Hutson Companies’ $3.5 million stalking-horse offer.
• The judge raised concerns that the local community preservation group — which wants to keep Marineland’s mission alive instead of redeveloping it — was shut out of the process.
• The court also questioned whether there’s enough information on animal welfare and future operations, since Marineland is still home to about 1,200 marine animals.
• Two of those dolphins may soon be relocated to another facility, which could affect operations and long-term care plans.
• The entire sale is part of the broader Chapter 11 bankruptcy of The Dolphin Company, which owns multiple marine parks.

For now, Marineland remains open to visitors, but the next few weeks will be crucial. The court has ordered all parties to re-engage with the community bidder and return with a new record before any sale is approved.

Why this matters:
Marineland isn’t just a piece of property it’s one of Flagler County’s most recognizable landmarks and part of Florida’s coastal identity.
Its future impacts tourism, local jobs, coastal property values, and the region’s environmental reputation.

The judge’s ruling gives locals another chance to keep Marineland’s legacy alive — possibly under community or nonprofit ownership that could focus on education, research, and marine therapy programs.

I’ll keep following this story as it develops — because how this ends could redefine how Flagler County balances growth, heritage, and conservation.

🏡 Ronnie Ward | REALTOR®
📍 Your Local Real Estate Professional
📞 (386) 864-5883
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.FLRealEstate386.com
Palm Coast | Flagler Beach | Flagler County | Ormond Beach | Daytona Beach | St Augustine
Brokered by Weichert, Realtors Hallmark Properties

10/31/2025

🚨 This 1 Developments will potentially 3x the Population!!!!

This one is huge for Bunnell and for all of Flagler County.

It’s called The Reserve at Haw Creek, and it’s not just another subdivision. This is a master-planned community so large it could double or even triple Bunnell’s population over the next 15 to 20 years.

The site covers about 2,788 acres of land stretching across west and south Bunnell between State Road 100, State Road 11, U.S. Highway 1, and County Roads 65 and 302.
If you drive that area now, you’ll see open fields, forests, and wetlands. But soon, it could become one of the most transformative developments our county has ever seen.

Here’s what’s confirmed directly from the City of Bunnell:

✅ The project allows for up to 6,100 homes including single-family houses, townhomes, duplexes, and some multi-family residences.
✅ It will include a village-style town center with shops, restaurants, and public amenities.
✅ The plan designates around 60 percent of the land as open or green space, including parks, conservation areas, and trails.
✅ About 10 percent of the homes will qualify as affordable or workforce housing, providing more options for local families.
✅ The developer, Northeast Florida Developers LLC, and property owner JM Properties X, LLC, have signed a Development Agreement with the City of Bunnell that outlines infrastructure, phasing, and environmental protections.

This project did not come easy. It took months of public hearings, revisions, and city votes.

In June 2025, the first version with 8,000 homes was rejected by the City Commission in a 4 to 1 vote.
By August 2025, a scaled-back version with 6,100 homes was brought back and approved in a 3 to 2 vote.
By September 2025, the city officially adopted the Future Land Use Amendment, the zoning plan, and the Development Agreement.

Before a single home can be sold, the developer must invest in major upfront infrastructure. That includes a new wastewater treatment facility, upgraded stormwater systems, and land dedicated for a future fire station. They also committed resources to help strengthen city services like sanitation, emergency response, and utilities.

Once complete, the Reserve at Haw Creek will feature new neighborhoods, walking trails, community parks, and commercial areas designed to support thousands of new residents.

Supporters believe it will bring new jobs, modern infrastructure, and a fresh economic boost to western Flagler County.
Opponents have voiced concerns about traffic, flooding, and the potential loss of small-town charm that makes Bunnell unique.

Both perspectives matter, because this project truly represents a turning point in our county’s story.

For decades, most of Flagler’s growth has happened along the coast and around Palm Coast. But with this project, growth is officially moving west.

That means new opportunities for homebuyers, new options for businesses, and a big shift in how Flagler County expands over the next generation.

If you want to see what the future of Flagler’s development looks like, this project is the one to watch.

I’ll be tracking every stage of progress as The Reserve at Haw Creek moves from concept to construction. I’ll bring you verified updates, real data, and straightforward insights on what it all means for our community, property values, and local growth.

What are your thoughts on this? Do you see this as progress for the area, or are you concerned about how fast things are moving? Drop your thoughts below I want to hear from you.

🏡 Ronnie Ward | REALTOR®
📍 Your Local Real Estate Professional
📞 (386) 864-5883
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.FLRealEstate386.com
Palm Coast | Flagler Beach | Flagler County | Ormond Beach | Daytona Beach | St Augustine
Brokered by Weichert, Realtors Hallmark Properties

10/31/2025

I’ve been busy this year and that’s a blessing I’ll never take for granted!
Every “SOLD” sign, every postcard on the board, every handshake at the closing table represents a client who trusted me to get the job done.

I didn’t get into real estate to be average. I got into it to win for my clients, to work harder, think smarter, and bring unmatched creativity to the table.

In this business, results speak louder than words and consistency, dedication, and integrity always rise to the top.

If you’re ready to sell, buy, or invest, hire an agent who doesn’t make excuses, hire one who makes it happen!

Let’s make your real estate goals a reality!

*ran out of room on the board for rest of the cards!

🏡 Ronnie Ward | REALTOR®
📍 Your Local Real Estate Professional
📞 (386) 864-5883
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.FLRealEstate386.com
📍 Palm Coast | Flagler Beach | Flagler County | Ormond Beach | Daytona Beach | St Augustine
Brokered by Weichert, Realtors Hallmark Properties.

10/31/2025

Forward progress is like a drug!
&
Discipline’s the dealer!

10/30/2025

One thing I learned quickly making content.
Toxic/mad people always have something bad to comment! No matter what! 😂😂

10/30/2025

🚨 Major New Apartment Community Rising in Palm Coast, Here’s What’s Really Happening

A project called Evolve Palm Coast is officially underway, bringing one of the city’s largest new apartment developments to the area and it’s already starting to get people talking.

Here’s what’s confirmed so far:
🏗️ Developer: Evolve Companies a national builder behind similar “Evolve” branded communities across the Southeast.
📍 Location: East side of U.S. 1 near Enterprise Drive in Palm Coast.
🏢 Scale: Reports show 256 units across 12 three-story buildings (some design sources list up to 368 units, which may reflect multiple phases).
💰 Financing: $51 million construction loan announced in early 2024.
🏡 Amenities: Resort-style saltwater pool with cabanas, clubhouse, fitness and yoga studio, pickleball courts, dog park/pet spa, business center, and lounge spaces.
🕓 Timeline: First buildings expected to open in late 2025, with the full community completed by early 2026.

The developer’s official site now lists the property as “Now Leasing.”

City development data references this as Application #5437, though the city’s online portal is temporarily down, preventing direct access to the documents for now.

Projects like this highlight Palm Coast’s growth more jobs, more housing options, and modern amenities but they also raise big questions about traffic, infrastructure, and how multifamily growth will reshape the city’s overall housing market.

What do you think is this kind of modern development good for Palm Coast?

🏡 Follow me for local updates and Palm Coast real estate news straight from your local real estate professional.

🏡 Ronnie Ward | REALTOR®
📍 Your Local Real Estate Professional
📞 (386) 864-5883
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.FLRealEstate386.com
📍 Palm Coast | Flagler Beach | Flagler County | Ormond Beach | Daytona Beach | St Augustine
Brokered by Weichert, Realtors Hallmark Properties.

10/30/2025

🚀 Over 1 Million Views in Just a Few Weeks

I am beyond thankful and truly humbled by the support these videos have received. Seeing our community tune in, engage, and find value in what we share means the world to me.

This all started with a simple goal to bring real, honest updates about what is happening right here on the coast. From new developments and market trends to local stories that matter, my goal is to keep you informed and connected to what is shaping our community.

If you enjoy staying ahead of what is happening in Palm Coast, Flagler Beach, and beyond, make sure to follow this page we are just getting started, and there is so much more coming your way.

Let’s keep learning, growing, and building together. The best is still ahead. 🙏

🏡 Ronnie Ward | REALTOR®
📍 Your Local Real Estate Professional
📞 (386) 864-5883
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.FLRealEstate386.com
📍 Palm Coast | Flagler Beach | Flagler County | Ormond Beach | Daytona Beach | St Augustine
Brokered by Weichert, Realtors Hallmark Properties.

10/29/2025

Bunnell sits as the crossroads of Flagler County. The community’s story began in the late eighteen hundreds when a cypress shingle maker named Alvah A. Bunnell supplied wood to the early rail operations along the Florida East Coast line. The small rail stop became known as Bunnell Stop, and a settlement slowly formed around it.

By the early nineteen hundreds, Isaac I. Moody and several partners were operating turpentine and timber businesses in the area. In nineteen oh nine, Moody, J. R. Sloan, and James Frank “Major” Lambert organized the Bunnell Development Company to formally plat the town and sell lots. The company marketed the region nationally and even opened a Chicago office that published a newsletter called the Bunnell Home Builder to promote local farmland and town lots.

Growth came quickly. The first permanent home in Bunnell was built in nineteen oh nine for Major Lambert. The first church was organized that same year, and the Bunnell State Bank opened in nineteen ten before moving to a new brick building in nineteen seventeen that still stands on North Bay Street. Early farm reports in the Bunnell Home Builder described successful harvests of sugar cane, corn, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, and hay surrounding the new town.

Bunnell was incorporated as a municipality around nineteen eleven to nineteen thirteen following approval from the Florida Legislature. In the following years the town’s first mayor and council were appointed as Bunnell began to take shape. Two years later work began on what would become one of the town’s most famous features, the Old Brick Road. Completed in nineteen fifteen it became part of the original Dixie Highway system connecting Bunnell with Flagler Beach and other nearby towns as the automobile era took hold.

Flagler County was created in nineteen seventeen from portions of St. Johns and Volusia counties and Bunnell was chosen as the county seat. The new county was named for Henry M. Flagler, the railroad pioneer whose vision helped develop Florida’s east coast.

Civic landmarks soon followed. The original Flagler County Courthouse on East Moody Boulevard was constructed around nineteen twenty six and officially dedicated in July nineteen twenty seven. The building was designed in a neoclassical style by Florida architect Wilbur Talley. In nineteen thirty six the City of Bunnell completed its coquina stone City Hall with support from the Works Progress Administration. The lake in front of City Hall was dredged from a cypress swamp during construction and the building’s coquina was hand cut from local quarries.

Education and civic life expanded as Bunnell grew. The Little Red School House located on the Bunnell Elementary campus stands as a reminder of the town’s early single room school era. The Bunnell Masonic Lodge was organized in nineteen twelve and remains active today. The town’s first telephone exchange building once stood near U.S. One marking another step in modernization during the early twentieth century.

On East Moody Boulevard the Holden House still represents Bunnell’s early prosperity. Built in nineteen eighteen as a wedding gift for Ethel Bortree Holden and Thomas Holden, the Craftsman style bungalow later became home to the Flagler County Historical Society. The Holden House was officially added to the National Register of Historic Places in twenty eighteen and now serves as a museum preserving the region’s history.

Moody Boulevard evolved into the main east west corridor that linked Bunnell to Flagler Beach helping shift travel from the Old Brick Road to newer paved routes in the nineteen twenties. Local memories tell how bricks from the old road were reused around town for patios, walkways, and buildings once modern paving arrived.

Throughout the twentieth century Bunnell remained the governmental and civic center of Flagler County. Agriculture, timber, and rail shaped its economy while the courthouse square, bank building, City Hall, and Holden House reflected the character of a town built on hard work and steady growth.

Today Bunnell continues to serve as the county seat and heart of Flagler County. Its historic streets, restored landmarks, and museums offer a clear window into how this community was built and how Flagler County grew up around it. Bunnell’s story is one of vision, resilience, and the pioneering spirit that continues to define it more than a century later.

🏡 Ronnie Ward | REALTOR®
📍 Your Local Real Estate Professional
📞 (386) 864 5883
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.FLRealEstate386.com
📍 Palm Coast | Flagler Beach | Flagler County | Ormond Beach | Daytona Beach | St Augustine
Brokered by Weichert, Realtors Hallmark Properties

10/28/2025

From Timucuan Tribes to Beach Town Dreams! The Real History of Flagler Beach

Long before the pastel cottages, the beachfront cafés, and the boardwalk sunsets, the stretch of Atlantic coastline that now hosts Flagler Beach was home to the Timucuan people, among Florida’s earliest coastal communities. These Indigenous residents lived, fished, and thrived on this land long before the arrival of European explorers who charted this shoreline centuries later.

In 1909, two visionaries named Isaac I. Moody and J. F. Lambert saw more than dunes and ocean waves. They saw potential. Together they established the Bunnell Development Company and began selling beachfront and near beach lots under the name “Ocean City.” At that time, beach access was limited because the mainland and barrier island were separated by marsh and canal with no convenient bridge. That changed in about 1920 when a drawbridge was built, finally connecting the barrier island beach to the rest of the region and unlocking development and access for future residents and visitors.

By June of 1924 the community’s post office adopted the name “Flagler Beach,” a nod to Henry M. Flagler, the railroad magnate whose Florida East Coast Railway shaped much of Florida’s Atlantic expansion. Less than a year later, on April 16, 1925, the town officially incorporated. George Moody became its first mayor, and the first town council included Charles Parker, Harry Wallace Sessions, Robert W. Raulerson, Dewey D. Moody and Luther O. Upson.

That same summer of 1925 the grand old Flagler Beach Hotel opened its doors on July 4. Three stories tall, built with coquina rock, featuring screened porches, pine floors and a ballroom overlooking the sea, the hotel embodied the resort vision that early developers had for this coast. Its ambition signaled a future where Flagler Beach would be more than a stopover. It would be a destination.

Just a few years later in 1928, the Flagler Beach Pier was constructed, stretching roughly 800 feet out into the Atlantic Ocean. The pier quickly became the town’s gathering place for fishing, strolling, and watching surfers and sunsets. Over the decades storms battered the shoreline and the pier itself, but each time the town rebuilt and revived it, a testimony to the spirit of Flagler Beach.

From the real estate booms of the 1920s, through mid century Florida’s tourism surge, to today’s coastal lifestyle market, Flagler Beach managed to preserve its small town charm even while communities around it grew rapidly. Many of the original subdivisions were carefully planned with both street front and water front access in mind, showing that from the start, the designers intended this place to be lived in, not just visited.

Founding families like the Moodys, Fuquays, Wicklines and Upsons helped shape the character of the community. Their names still appear in street signs, landmarks and local lore today. Their legacy lives on in every sunrise over the Atlantic, every shell lined beach walk and every friendly hello to neighbors.

What makes Flagler Beach special is not only the view. It is the history, the people, the resilience and the fact that this town grew by vision, by heart and by community. If you love where you live or dream about living somewhere with character, this is the real story behind one of Florida’s most iconic small beach towns.

MORE HISTORICAL PHOTOS AT THE END!

🏡 Ronnie Ward | REALTOR®
📍 Your Local Real Estate Professional
📞 (386) 864 5883
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.FLRealEstate386.com
📍 Palm Coast | Flagler Beach | Flagler County | Ormond Beach | Daytona Beach | St Augustine
Brokered by Weichert, Realtors Hallmark Properties

10/28/2025

September wrapped up strong officially hit the Million Dollar Club again!

That makes it the second time this year, and I actually missed it a third time by just a few days on a closing! That’s how this business goes sometimes but we keep pushing, learning, and growing. We are thankful to get top Closing agent again for the month as well!

I’m thankful for the clients who trust me to get the job done, and I’m proud of the work that goes into every single deal. No shortcuts, no games just real effort and real results.

We’re building something solid here, and this is just the beginning!

10/27/2025

🚨 Potential Walmart Supercenter Coming to Palm Coast Here’s Everything We Know

A 38.8 acre parcel right next to BJ’s Wholesale Club on State Road 100 just took a big step forward and all signs point toward a potential Walmart Supercenter being built on the site.

The Palm Coast City Council voted 5-0 to approve a land-use and zoning change for the property, reclassifying it under the city’s COM-2 general commercial category. That change officially clears the way for large-scale retail development.

Here’s what’s confirmed so far:
✅ The site plan concept includes a 171,000-square-foot anchor store and a 55,000-square-foot secondary building, with hundreds of parking spaces and several potential outparcels for smaller businesses.
✅ The developer has committed that the property will be 100% commercial use meaning no apartments or residential development on this site.
✅ The City of Palm Coast is requiring a Traffic Impact Analysis and coordination with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) before any major permits are approved. Reports show the development could generate over 3,000 peak-hour vehicle trips once built out.

So, is it really Walmart?
While the tenant hasn’t been officially named, both FlaglerLive and the Palm Coast Observer describe it as a “discount superstore” of the exact size and layout Walmart typically builds. That’s why many believe it’s the next Walmart Supercenter for our area and if true, it would be the first new superstore of this scale in Palm Coast in over 30 years.

Why this matters for Palm Coast:
This project marks a major expansion of the SR 100 commercial corridor one of the city’s fastest-growing areas. It could bring jobs, convenience, and increased property visibility, but also heavier traffic and more infrastructure demand. For homeowners in nearby communities like Seminole Woods, Belle Terre, and Town Center, this is one to watch closely.

This kind of growth signals Palm Coast’s continued transition from a quiet coastal town into a regional retail hub. But as always, the key will be balancing progress with smart planning.

What do you think is this the kind of growth Palm Coast needs, or is the city growing too fast?

🏡 Follow me for local updates and Palm Coast real estate news straight from your local real estate professional.

🏡 Ronnie Ward | REALTOR®
📍 Your Local Real Estate Professional
📞 (386) 864-5883
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.FLRealEstate386.com
📍 Palm Coast | Flagler Beach | Flagler County | Ormond Beach | Daytona Beach | St Augustine
Brokered by Weichert, Realtors Hallmark Properties.

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