Developer's Story

"Building community into
            the communities we build."

In 1990 two brothers, Jack and Jim Wallace, launched their first community, Piper's Pointe, a 240-unit lakefront multi-family condominium in North Naples. Building must have been in their blood. Twenty-six years earlier their father, Joe Wallace, was a respected builder/developer of over 400 homes in early Naples.

After Piper's Pointe, older brother Jack retired but Jim had discovered a new passion. It was more than bricks and mortar. It was creating communities with attitude and lifestyle. In 1993 Jim transformed a tomato field into Piper's Grove, the first low-density,  waterfront multi-family, community in Naples with 388 condos and coach homes nestled around five lakes.

By the end of 1997, Jim's next community, Calusa Bay, a lush 342-home lakefront community on an infill parcel, was nationally recognized for its innovative design and focus on "neighborhood".

In 2000 Lighthouse Bay at the Brooks raised the bar again as the first resort-lifestyle community in Southwest Florida with 654 homes created around a wildlife preserve, 42 acres of lakes and "a club with just about everything."

Most recently, inspired by the Mediterranean coastal towns of the Cote D'Azure and the Italian Riviera , Jim's latest waterfront community of 540 homes, Rapallo^® at Coconut Point, "redefined the curve" with new uses of shape, color, greenspace and public art coupled with an upscale, Baby-Boomer resort-lifestyle, an upscale, built around an exclusive, private club and a pedestrian connection to the Coconut Point Town Center.

The Art District at Rapallo^TM takes the lifestyle concept even further with  an urban village of 256 homes set amongst 36 Live/Work studios, the 506 seat Rapallo Performing Arts Theatre, cerebral parks, and public art, plus 32 restaurants, galleries and shops; all within a mosaic of cultural venues and integrated public spaces ”the penultimate urban living experience coupled with all the benefits of the resort-lifestyle Club at Rapallo^®. After creating and building 2,200 homes over 16 years Rapallo is the flagship. What more can any Baby Boomer ask for?

Rapallo^® blends upscale resort-lifestyle with culture, art and a sense of place.