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Part 1: A dream come true tour of the beautiful new yishuv Lakefront Estates in Okeechobee, Florida

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This is the villa. Beautiful. Okay, Kevin. Uh Okay, Kevin. Let me do this. Let me do this. This is shine. Shine. This is shine. Kick some. >> [music] >> Kevin, this is reality. Kick. Wow. Yeah, fine. This is Phil. Phil is the guy who all the magic, everything all everything you see over here everything from from everything you have there's a city built on the ground. Water, sewer, electric, everything you see was organized and coordinated by Phil. You'll go down a little further, you'll see mountains. That's called dirt moving. Most of that is done because they want to build the elevations and we didn't want to build this place like a lot of places in the United States where there's mountains or you have to you start having puddles. So, he made the elevation pretty much the whole entire I'm going to let him explain it. Everything is pretty much ground level. Everything is smooth. We've moved Phil, tell him how much dirt you moved. >> About a million yards of dirt so far. Million yards of dirt. >> About a million yards. Why don't you give him a little like a 30-second rundown of where you started? Well, I've been here for Yeah. Okay. So, this is the first entrance. It's not necessarily the main entrance for now is the main entrance the first entrance. And you see that pipe sticking out of ground? That's our last test and we're doing that Monday morning. Yep. And then we're we're approved by the DEP. We're good to go. We have we have All the water. All these green transformers, explain to them what that is. >> So, this is all the electric. Again, if you'll notice there's no more wires overhead. They were overhead. All that's now underground. All the new wires come into the main feed right here with throughout the whole phase 1B. >> This is the main street, Rambam Boulevard. What are we building right over here? This is going to be your retail retail stores. Massive. It's huge. >> Huge shopping center with all different stores. >> built. The area for the parking lot is already done and your grocery store right here is already built. >> 65,000 square foot supermarket coming in on the left. You can see a little picture of it over there. And all the underground utilities are in here and I'm talking about on either side of this road is full of pipe. They're not a room to put one more pipe in. Beautiful. Okay, here we're going to make a right to the model homes. This is the street, okay? You're coming off of Rambam and you're going to Russia Drive, okay? We'll come back soon or later over there is the shul and the mikveh. Rambam Russia Rambam Russia vada vada vada. This is the villa. >> Wow. Beautiful. What do you have the palm trees already? Oh. They're always waiting for us. They're always ready to be dug up, replanted. They never have to wait. This is the model home ranch. Moving up to the model home ranch. Starting price at 460. Wow. Okay, now we're entering phase 1B. A bunch of emeralds coming up. These these are five-bedroom apartments with an with upstairs floor with an option of another three. So, you can have eight bedrooms on top. This is an emerald model home. And I'm going to take you down this whole row which Phil, tell them how much work you put in here to grade it and to make it nice and smooth. >> We worked hard for you guys today so it would look good. We've been grading around the houses getting them ready for irrigation, landscape, and trees. So, we're just on the final phase. >> phase F you see on the right. That's duplexes. We have the sidewalks. Sidewalks going up. When you look between the houses, you'll see the smallest lake that's here. If you'll notice how low the water is, cuz all this ground from natural grade has come up about 3 ft. Explain to them what we did that you built these you made these lakes. These these are man-made lakes. >> lakes are man-made. We've dug See to your left, there's a huge 17-acre lake over there. There's 5 and 1/2 acres over here and all that soil came up on this ground and elevated all this up so it never flood. The nicest thing today is Phil I see is you're you're dressed up for the occasion. I'm dressed for the occasion. That's it. This is phase E going down over here, but I'm going to take you towards the road where it goes to the school. It's on the toilet right there in the boat. So, one second. How many houses are phase one? How many houses are you building in phase one? We We're going to have with Hashem 196 homes ready by August with five commercial buildings which include the school, the shul, mikveh, supermarket, and shopping plaza. Okay? We're going to take you towards the shul yet in the far. You want me to take you there soon? That's the we built a state-of-the-art $6 million wastewater treatment plant. By the time it's done, you can drink the water. That's how clean it's going to be. Come on times eight times nine. So, So, the year the minute 50 50,000 20,000 as the in button This all of the days of do anything phase one of this little routine. This all of this looks is in Kadai in Florida with my home lakes. For all of our houses the soil from the lakes. And it's nice to make the grade in the whole place is all good and even. All of this is this guy from phase two. There came the model school. There came a medical center. for the for the state of