Ave Maria

Ave Maria is a project started by Domino's Pizza founder, John Monaghan. He wanted to found a new Catholic university in the United States. The location of this university is about 50 miles from our RV park, near Naples. We had talked about making a visit there last year but never got around to it. Today we remedied that.

Ave Maria would still be considered a work in progress, in my view. The original university has been joined by a town square that surrounds a church. I understand that the original plan was to only sell residences to Catholics. People here at our park say that that requirement has been relaxed somewhat. I'm not surprised. Even without the problems in the housing market, it seems that limiting your client pool to one religious group would not be the best strategy.

In addition, there is a Del Webb community that is being constructed in this area. They had some model homes that you could look at without getting involved with a salesperson. We looked at two of them. The house pictures in the slideshow are from that home. Very nice!

The other pictures are of downtown Ave Maria, the church and some of the university buildings. Sorry for the blur on some of the pictures. Either the auto-focus was having problems or my hand was shaky. I've got to learn to lay off the Long Island Ice Tea before 10:00AM. Just click on the picture to see the slideshow.

Ave Maria