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MUSTANG ISLAND, TEXAS; Sept. 26, 2011 –To showcase its wedding facilities, Cinnamon Shore, a picture-perfect seaside village featuring 1,200 feet of beachfront on Mustang Island, will host “Cinnamon Shore’s Beach Bridal Show” on Sun., Oct. 16, for prospective brides, wedding planners and vendors alike.  The event, taking place at 5009 Hwy 361, from noon to 5 p.m., will be open to the public and free of charge! 

One lucky bride-to-be will even win a wedding at Cinnamon Shore featuring free goods and services provided by the “Cinnamon Shore’s Beach Bridal Show” vendors and complimentary accommodations at Cinnamon Shore for the bride and groom on their wedding night.

At “Cinnamon Shore’s Beach Bridal Show”, brides-to-be will find everything they need to plan the perfect wedding—from the ceremony to the celebration.  From catering to cakes and bouquets to bridesmaids’ dresses, everything one needs for getting hitched and wedded bliss will be on display.  Most wedding vendors will be set up in booths at the Town Center, with food and cake vendors set up at Keira’s Pool and Clubhouse. 

White tents complete with mock table settings will be displayed on the Great Lawn, and models wearing bridal gowns and tuxedos will wander throughout the property showing off the latest wedding styles.  In addition, attendees will take self-guided tours of the mixed-use community to view all the options for indoor, outdoor and waterside weddings.  Maps of the property will be available at the Town Center, and golf carts will be provided for those who require rides. 

Throughout the property, there are numerous locations with breathtaking vistas that will handle weddings of various sizes.  Waterside outdoor options include, of course, beach weddings, but there are also two fresh-water lakes and a tranquil infinity pool that provide beautiful backdrops.  Outdoor ceremonies can be held at the Lake Colby Boardwalk and Fishing Pavilion or on the open, meticulously manicured Great Lawn--a one-acre expanse framed in by lush landscaping and stone pavers--while intimate indoor ceremonies can be held in Keira’s Pool Clubhouse or the C Bar Café, complete with kitchen facilities and space for dancing. 

In addition, the Town Center makes for the ideal locale for weddings, particularly for receptions and dinners.  Also, Cinnamon Shore can accommodate overnight guests in its many rental houses and condos (three residence minimum required), sleeping up to 14 people in the larger homes.  Plus, Cinnamon Shore offers a two-night “Romantic Get-Away” package to start any romance off right, perhaps for an elopement.  For more information, visit www.cinnamonshore.com.  To learn about the bridal show, call (888) 893-0656.  

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MUSTANG ISLAND, TEXAS; June 30, 2011 – Construction is almost complete on the Town Center Café, the first restaurant at the Cinnamon Shore mixed-use community on Mustang Island, and a grand opening is tentatively scheduled for mid-July. The opening will mark a major milestone for Cinnamon Shore, the first wholly master-planned New Urbanism development on Texas’s Coastal Bend featuring a close-knit, pedestrian-friendly neighborhood with modern-day conveniences. It will be the first finished piece of commercial property in the community, and it serves as the start of the developer’s vision of a town center replete with convenient shops, charming restaurants, workspaces and gathering places coming to fruition. 

With design and décor that is very similar to the adjacent homes, the Café fits in perfectly with Cinnamon Shore’s distinctive architectural vernacular. Boasting white washed wood plank walls, blue floors and a soaring ceiling, the Café evokes a sense of tranquility while reminding one of the 1,200 feet of beachfront on which the community was built. 

Open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., during peak season, the Café, located at 165 Social Circle, will feature a variety of organic gourmet coffees, artisan level espresso, fresh-baked pastries, assorted piled-high Panini sandwiches, frozen fruit smoothies and a full premium bar featuring microbrewery beer, an extensive wine list and super premium liquor. In addition, the Café will boast the Coastal Bend’s only fresh made Italian gelato and sorbetto, crafted locally by David Bendett, proprietor.

Catering to residents and guests alike, the Café is geared toward feeding the entire family for the whole day. From warm cinnamon rolls and muffins for breakfast to thick turkey, tuna or tomato basil Panini sandwiches (just to name a few) for lunch and dinner to refreshing after-dinner drinks and desserts (coffee and cocktails for the adults and Italian gelato for the kids), the Café has dining covered for the day. And for those on the go, the Café offers a boxed lunch including a sandwich, chips, pastry and drink for approximately $8—great for a picnic on the beach or to accompany a game of golf on the neighboring Newport Dunes Links course.

Of all the tasty treats at the Café, perhaps the most mentionable is the Italian gelato. According to Bendett, “Gelato has been around for over 400 years, contains 2/3 less fat than ice cream and tastes way better. Fruit based flavors (sorbetto) have no dairy in them, making them even healthier.” 

Bendett, who also owns the Coffee Waves shops in Port Aransas and Corpus Christi, attended gelato school in Baltimore, Md., where he learned to make gelato from a small family-owned Italian company. He makes Italian Gelato just as they do in Italy and uses the most up-to-date modern equipment available to ensure the highest consistency and quality. All gelato served at the Café will be made fresh just a few miles down the road at Coffee Waves Port Aransas. 
Bendett says that, aside from his two Coffee Waves shops, no one else sells fresh made gelato on the Coastal Bend. He says, “This unique product is just one of the things that makes the Café a one-of-a-kind business, setting the standard for coffee shops all the way to Houston and San Antonio.” 

With over 90 different gelato and sorbetto flavors rotating on a weekly basis, Café customers will never be bored of the sweet confection. Some flavors will be kept in stock constantly, due to popular demand, including: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, Butterfinger, Stratiatella, Mint Chocolate Chip, Fruits of the Forest, Strawberry, NSA Strawberry, Raspberry, Mango, Coconut, Pineapple, Strawberries and Cream, Chocolate Chip, Rocky Road, Heath Bar, Chocolate, NSA Chocolate, Pistachio, Nutella, Hazelnut and Tiramisu. Special flavors include: Root Beer Float, Banana Cream Pie, Monkey Tail (strawberry, banana and chocolate chip), Kiwi, Raspberry Chocolate, Dulce de Leche, Cotton Candy and many, many more. In fact, for a limited time, a special cinnamon flavor will be created especially for the Café grand opening. (Don’t miss your free sample!)

Cuisine brings a community together, as the Café will at Cinnamon Shore, offering a calendar of events on a monthly basis and serving as a social hotspot. Bendett plans on hosting wine tasting nights, martini madness nights, live music every weekend, special concerts in the town square and so much more, including a major Folk Festival in 2012.

Bendett says that while his Coffee Waves shops already offer an alternative to the “fast food” coffee chains by offering the highest-quality coffee for the “serious coffee snob”, the Café will raise the bar and take everything to the next level. Bendett reports, “The Café is a cool concept and a standout product. It sets an even higher standard for the area’s dining options, while offering something for everyone.”

To learn more about the Café at Cinnamon Shore, visitwww.cinnamonshore.com or call (361) 749-0704. For more information about real estate purchases and rentals at Cinnamon Shore, visit www.cinnamonshore.com or call (888) 893-0656.

PORT ARANSAS, Texas - New construction and steady sales levels continue at Cinnamon Shore on Mustang Island.  2011 should be another big year.  Construction is underway on the Town Center with a variety of commercial enterprises arriving this Spring/Summer.

Home and condo sales have been strong and new spec homes are currently under construction. A complete inventory list is available here. Part of their succsss has been the top-notch amenities offered to residents. Swimming pools, lakes, dune crossovers, a fitness center and new concierge services help make Cinnamon Shore a winning development.

Cinnamon Shore Street Scene

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PORT ARANSAS, Texas - The 2010 Cinnamon Shore Seaside Home Tour is well underway.

This tour features a collection of the best work and new ideas by the area’s top designers, architects, and builders. Visitors will be able to tour distinctly beautiful homes set in a traditional seaside village.

Tour Dates and Times

June 9 – Sept 6
Wednesday – Sunday 11AM – 5PM

$5.00 admission with 80% of the proceeds benefiting the Port Aransas Education Foundation.

More About the Home

Simple elegance describes this 5 bedroom, 5.5 bath home. A classic beach home with porches on two sides and gulf views that extend beyond the horizon!

PORT ARANSAS, Texas – Cinnamon Shore on Mustang Island recently announced that construction of the “Susan Castor Collection Beach House” is now underway with completion expected in June 2010.  Once completed, the home will be open for public tours.

The team for the site selection, design of the home, construction, and landscaping has been collaborating since mid-July. The design professionals have spent countless hours striving to deliver fresh ideas and interesting features for a perfect beach home to be enjoyed by all ages. Now it is time for these ideas, inspirations and visions to become a reality. Furnishings will be provided by the Susan Castor Collection and her team of designers. “We are very excited about this wonderful opportunity to provide the public with the results of a total collaboration among design professionals on a challenging beachfront property in a master planned traditional seaside village.”

Cinnamon Shore is a 62 acre Master Planned Community featuring a pedestrian friendly lifestyle with sidewalks throughout, beautiful lakes, multiple parks, neighborhood pools,  2 Dune Crossovers accessing the beach and the upcoming Town Center featuring shops and restaurants all within a 5 minute walk from anywhere in the community!

When complete, Cinnamon Shore will have approximately 300 homes and condos. Home prices begin in the low $400's while condos will begin in the low $200's

Cinnamon Shore Street Scene

Cinnamon Shore Swimming Pool

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PORT ARANSAS, Texas - The Port Aransas South Jetty featured a great story on the new Southern Living Idea House at Cinnamon Shore.  The doors opened on Saturday, June 6th.  Mary Judson (Editor and Co-Publisher) reports that 282 people toured the home in the first two days.  

I visited the home last week and it is a masterpiece.  Port A visitors will clearly want to add this to their "to-do list" this Summer Season.

The (06-04-09) South Jetty Article appears below with permission:

The Idea House sponsored by Southern Living magazine opens Saturday, June 6, in the Cinnamon Shore residential development. It is one of two Idea Houses built for the magazine this year. The other is in Georgia.

Admission for tours is $5 per person, $2 of which will go to the Port Aransas Education Foundation. Volunteers for the organization, which raises private money to fund programs, activities and equipment for Port Aransas Independent School District teachers and students, will lead the tours through Sept. 27.

The house will be open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, and 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

Built by Keystone Company of Port Aransas, the home is the subject of a short feature in the June edition of Southern Living. A 30-page feature on both the Port Aransas and the Georgia Idea Houses will appear in the magazine’s August issue when an online feature will also be posted on the magazine’s Web site.

Estimates by the magazine are that some 12 million people will see the house either in the magazine, in person or online.

Derick Belden, executive editor of Southern Living Homes and Gardens, said among reasons Cinnamon Shore was chosen for the Idea House was because its editors recognize and appreciate the uniqueness and beauty of Port Aransas, the beach and the Cinnamon Shore project.

Cinnamon Shore, near the southern city limits of Port Aransas off State Hwy. 361, is a master-planned New Urbanism development. Jeff Lamkin, CEO of Sea Oats Group, is the developer.

New Urbanism refers to neighborhoods designed to reduce traffic and sprawl, with residential, business and recreational points within walking distance.

A 64-acre mixed-use community, Cinnamon Shore, upon completion, will include about 300 homes and condominiums, a town center with shops, restaurants, hotel and office space, parks and recreational amenities, and pedestrian friendly streets that interconnect the entire community.

About the house 
• Views of the Gulf of Mexico from all floors - located 300 feet from the beach 
• Accommodates several families, sleeping up to 16 people
• 5 bedrooms, 5.5 baths plus loft. Approximately 3,700 sq ft. 
• Wood walls, ceilings and floors 
• 2 master suites; all bedrooms with a private bath 
• 3rd story loft area with built-in bunks open to a game room 
• Multi-story ceiling in the family room open to kitchen for family living 
• Multiple porches with Gulf views 
• 2 outdoor fireplaces in the courtyard and on screened porch 
• Separate canoe house with guest quarters above
• Viking appliances throughout