Atlanta's Pollack Shores building Gateway North

Atlanta-based Pollack Shores Real Estate Group has broken ground on a new luxury apartment community at 2681 Roosevelt Blvd., Largo. Gateway North will have 342 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments on 16.25 acres.

The three-story community will have a lake with a walking trail, a clubhouse with a water-scaped pool, cabanas, a fitness center, business center and outdoor grilling and entertainment areas.

The first apartments should be ready for residents in late spring 2014, with final completion expected that fall. Matrix Residential will lease and manage the community.

“This project meets our goal of developing along high-visibility, high-traffic locations with access to a substantial and growing base of employers coupled with numerous retail/entertainment options,” Pollack Shores President and Co-Founder Steven Shores says in a press release.

Florida is one of Pollack Shores' key markets. In addition to developing communities, it acquired and is renovating 1,090 existing apartment units this year alone. In August the firm purchased The Coves of Brighton Bay, a 382-unit luxury apartment community in St. Petersburg.