Saturday, July 11, 2009

Derek Jeter Is a Real Estate Size Queen

Your Mama was flummoxed, flabbergasted and all kinds of perplexed this morning when we opened the New York Post to find an article on the brouhaha developing over the titanic mansion that nearly deified New York Yankee Derek Jeter is building down in Tampa, FL.

A peep into the property records and a few flicks of the well worn beads on Your Mama's bejeweled abacus shows that in two separate transaction in 2005 and 2006 Mister Jeter paid an eye popping $7,666,000 for three contiguous waterfront lots on Bahama Circle in the sleepy Davis Islands community. Combined, according to records, the three lots total just under 1.3 acres.

According to some reports, some of Mister Jeter's new neighbors are taking umbrage at the scale of the not yet completed crib which is scheduled to measure in at a boo-teek hotel sized 31,000 square feet. Your Mama did a bit of snooping around and figured out that Mister Jeter's new bachelor pad will be nearly six times the size of his next door neighbors' homes and nearly twice the size of his boss George Steinbrenner's 17,000+ square foot pile at Tampa's Palma Ceia Golf and Country Club. According to a blog devoted to the goings on around Davis Island, the average size of a Best Buy store is 39,000 so that should give the children some idea of what kind of space in which Mister Jeter will be rambling around.

Lahrd have mercy chickens, who knew Derek Jeter was a real estate size queen?

Other amenities of the Mister Jeter's residential beast are reported to include garaging for six cars, 7 bedrooms, 9 poopers, an entertainment room, a billiard room and another room devoted to all his bat swinging and ball bandying memorabilia. All of this for a place to crash during the spring training which is all of three months of the damn year

The second issue some of Mister Jeter's neighbors are said to be beefing about is his request to erect a six foot privacy fence around the perimeter of his property. As it turns out, Tampa's zoning ordinances only allow for three foot fencing and he's requested a variance of some sort that will allow him his tall fence. However, according the the people at The Post, the president of the Davis Islands Civic Association doesn't seem so concerned about the size of the house or the fence and if Your Mama had to guess, we'd bet our long bodied bitches Linda and Beverly that Mister Jeter will get easy approval for his six foot fence and any other special consideration he might want for his part-time pad.

Have a look-see here at a nice cache of photos of Mister Jeter's under construction spring break bachelor pad.

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

he needs the space to store his nuts!

good taste said...

Who the hell wants to live in Tampa.

WrteStufLA said...

He's building a 30,000 SF home on 3 contiguous lots. Probably less impact than 3 separate homes of 10,000 SF each.

:{} avg joe said...

HOW IS HE PAYING FOR THIS ?????

HE LOST ALL HIS MONEY WITH MADDOF

StPaulSnowman said...

Yes, Virginia........it is a monstrosity......but you would hardly expect this individual to commission an Edwin Lutyens style house......now would you? Mama, are you quite sure that this is not a Best Buy?

Anonymous said...

During the year he lives at Trump World Tower, I believe on the 88th floor. His place there is on a touch over 5,000 square feet. Maybe he likes to spoil himself over the summer. I'm sure this house will turn out great!

Anonymous said...

It looks like a waterfront Hampton Inn!

Anonymous said...

Or like a Hampton Inn & a parking garage had a baby!

A. RODDD said...

While building such a huge house, I wonder what he is compensating for?

Anonymous said...

Goodtaste: I believe lots of baseball players live around Tampa. I know Gary Sheffield has a home there.

Subtlety=Class said...

Hey Fellow McMansion Freaks......THIS absolute monstrosity, Jeter himself, and ALL the incomprehensible amounts of greed that they're both drowning in are exactly why I always have, am and will FOREVER be revolted with this countrys' obsession with "organized", or more correctly called industrialized "sports"!! I'm TRULY not at all jealous of an idiot like Jeter, but am permanently disgusted at the level of psychotic materialism and uncontrollable greed of we humans will no doubt always have. I cannot believe that there are people who(waaaay too many of which have not, and cannot afford to keep)these sports (and all others as rich or richer than him, from any other ridiculously frivolous "careers")"superstars" making these gargantuan forutnes from PLAYING BASEBALL. I mean...come on!!! For THREE months a year, ne needs almost THIRTY-ONE-THOUSAND SQUARE FEET?!?!?!
Just THINK for two seconds just what 1/100th of ALL those millions that Jeter's spent so far could do for ANY legit charity!?!? Some of you have to agree with me!

Anonymous said...

He may actually use this house for grand scale entertaining, like charity dinners to raise money. Many people would pay big bucks to go it at Jeter's house, especially, if it is their companies that foot the giving bill. Yes, it is humangous, but I would not judge until I know how he uses it.

Anonymous said...

Sighhh, it's a nice thought, Anonymous, but HIGHLY unlikely, I'm afraid. Just how many baseball "superstars" have you heard of having even one, much less two, fund-raising charity parties at their mcmansions, really? Trust me, like the countless others who've inexplicably come into crazy money like Jeter (completely unfairly, in my never-humble opinion, but that's life for us humans here on Earth....UNFAIR) he'll crash here for a few years before he tires of it, and taking into account the ABYSMAL ECONOMY that we're in now, and that most real-estate experts say will stay that way indefinitely, he'll lose a HUGE amount of money on this hideous thing, if it ever sells in the next 10 years. Also, I think your idea of "companies footing the bill" to go to a party at his house is, unfortunately, as likely to happen in this economy as George Bush is to develop an I.Q.! That kinda' corporate spending is BIG time history.

Harold Peto said...

Big is only worth the time, money and carbon footprint if it is something esthetically magnificent for all to enjoy, or at least look at................and this aint it........this is the exact opposite.

Anonymous said...

This monsterous house is just one big ego display. Jeter should be ashamed for building it.

Anonymous said...

I don't know many baseball superstars, period (and not interested in this sport to start with), but every super-rich person I know does host those types of parties. And some people I know were entertained at other athletes mcmansions for charity purposes. Again, I do not judge before I see.

P.S. And stop whining about abysmal economy. Just shows how short-sighted and shilded you are. In most countries even a minor recession is 100 times worse than what you experience in the US now. Get some perspective.

Anonymous said...

Too big a house on too small a lot and not a great location to boot.

Another example of too much money and not enough sense.

Anonymous said...

He'll have this built, spend a year or two there and decide it's too much space and try to sell it for some ridiculous sum of money that he'll never get because let's be honest? who wants a 31,000sf house in Tampa?

In fact, I'm not sure there are than many people who want 31,000 square foot houses anymore anywhere. Just look at all those monsters in Beverly Park collecting cob webs.

Nadia T. said...

To Subtlety=Class,

Derek HAS donated millions of dollars to various charities including his own which is called the Turn 2 Foundation and has been around for many years now. But even if he didn't, what he chooses to do with the money that HE earns is his own business.