Saturday, March 21, 2009

The Captain's New Palace

Derek Jeter is building a mansion on Davis Islands in Tampa, and the place is going to be gigantic. Here's more from TBO.com (hat-tip to River Ave. Blues):

Once completed, the seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom house on Davis Islands will be 30,875 square feet, according to Hillsborough County public records. To give you an idea of how big that is, the average Best Buy store is 39,700 square feet. That's also twice as big as the Bayshore Boulevard mansion of Lazydays RV SuperCenter founder Don Wallace.

Hillsborough County's largest home now is in the Avila country club community. It's 28,295 square feet.

Kered Connors LLC, which lists Jeter as the "sole member," purchased adjacent waterfront lots on Bahama Circle in 2005 and 2006. Kered Connors paid $7.7 million for the properties.

The guys over at RAB also have some cool Google Earth images of the lot the house is being built on and Jeter's future view.

Here are some pictures of the house from TBO.com:




Jeter already has a five-bedroom, five-bathroom house in the area, but the article says that house is a little more out of the way than this new place. Plus, when you're making $20 million a year, why not have two huge houses?

16 Comments:

Brian Danuff said...

HOLY SHIT!!

Greg Cohen said...

lol, yea it's going to be a nice pad.

Brian Danuff said...

I want to be on his guest list when he hosts a party.

Anonymous said...

if a-rod was building this home people would be ripping him.

Anonymous said...

9 bathrooms!.. thats probably more than the old stadium

Greg Cohen said...

No they wouldn't.

A-Rod has a $20+ million apartment in the city, and nobody says a word, nor should they.

People get on A-Rod's case for being an idiot.

Anonymous said...

Just for Jeter, I would'nt buy a big house like this if I live a lone.

Brian Danuff said...

Liam,

That's exactly what i'm saying! Weather its athletes, actors, superstars, hell, even just the rich, they shouldn't buy/build such big mansions if they're single.

(unless the person has parties every weekend)

Anonymous said...

I would buy a 2 bedroom house with a toylet.

Brian Danuff said...

same here (then again, I'm hoping to get married when I grow up)

Anonymous said...

I would be surprised if a girl says... something to me.

Anonymous said...

Stupid Best Buy.

Anonymous said...

Traber also sucks Liam, right.

Anonymous said...

LOL, hell ya! If I see Traber, i'll kick his... butt. I hate him so much for some reason.

Anonymous said...

Still why do you need that many bedrooms for?

Greg Cohen said...

When you have as much as Jeter does, what's a few extra bedrooms?

And believe me, if you had that money you'd feel the same way as he does.