Titusville
Titusville is an interesting situation. The city, right now, is reinventing itself. Titusville can lay claim, with considerable justification, to being the original city to give the entire area the name “Space Coast”. Both men and women of every possible NASA job description, and in the greatest numbers, chose Titusville as their place to call home.
Other choices, of course, were Cocoa and Melbourne, but Titusville had pride of place: it was closer, easier to access, and had everything you needed. As time passed, the “center of gravity” for the entire area drifted down the Coast towards Melbourne. It seems now that things have come full circle. Perhaps some of the best values – for buying, for investing – for the moment can be found here in Titusville.
The city has some extraordinary Indian River waterfront areas and is, as we speak, involved in multiple processes to figure out what is their highest and best use. Stay tuned, for the discussions are lively.
.Titusville Florida sits in the northeast corner of Brevard County, on the mainland, along the Indian River, with I-95 and the St. John’s River National Wildlife Refuge as a kind of western edge. It sits just across the tidal Indian and Banana Rivers from the Kennedy Space Center’s rocket launch sites, and provides by far the best uninterrupted view of the nation’s blast-off space activities you can buy into anywhere on the Space Coast.
Titusville – for now anyway – is a small city of just over 40,000 that blends the best of nature with science and technology. The average year round temperature is 79 and it enjoys 295 days of sunshine.
With an average home sale at $204,000 as of August 2005, Titusville is absolutely still affordable. (This will change.) Last but not least, it has a great climate for business and lifestyle.
If you are relocating to Florida, I can think of a number of good reasons to look seriously at Titusville’s unique variant of a relaxed yet connected Florida lifestyle, but here are several good ones:
- Titusville really is the Gateway to the Space Coast. You must go through it to get to the Kennedy Space Center and various other space-related attractions and museums. If you want to feel connected to America’s future in the cosmos, hey, this is a cool place to be, like no other.
- But it’s a relatively quiet place. Titusville is “behind” Cape Canaveral, and is and will remain fairly compact because of its unique geography, unlike the more spread-out megalopis-in-becoming area south of the Cape and SR 528 (on a map, the area stretching from Cocoa through Melbourne to Palm Bay).
- For example, “Titusville’s beach” is not a happening place like Cocoa Beach; instead it’s the Canaveral National Seashore, and the pristine, undeveloped, and forever-wild 24-mile stretch of barrier-island sand and palms known as Apollo, Klondike, and Playalinda Beaches.
And that’s not all: In addition to 37 local parks, there is the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. This incredible wildlife preserve has over 140,000 acres and is home to 16 threatened or endangered mammals and some of the world's finest birding. See www.dhphotoart.com Florida has one of the best networks of hiking, biking, and equestrian trails in the United States, and this area has more than its fair share of them, and easy access to a bunch more
- Some of the best light-tackle fishing in America is also right at your backdoor, among the myriad islands of Mosquito Lagoon and the upper reaches of the Indian River. This is sea trout, redfish, and even snook country.
- Your outdoor recreation of choice is paddleboating? Again, some of the best canoe and kayak trails to be found anywhere in North America are right here. And much of the nearby St. John’s river basin has been preserved from further development.
- Despite all this incredible feast of pristine outdoor recreational options, you can work in Orlando! Or you can play in Orlando! Orlando – the big city, with all that implies for jobs, for shopping, for dining, for the Arts, for access to colleges and a rich variety of higher education, for the fun of professional sports, and for other entertainment choices, is just a 45-minute drive from Titusville.
- Central Florida is a veritable smorgasbord of interesting neighborhoods, backcountry roads, beach communities, whatever. Again, Titusville’s location is uniquely convenient.
- So is Orlando International Airport, with nonstop flights to most of the USA and Europe. Parking is abundant, convenient, and inexpensive. Most people in the USA’s big metropolitan centers would love this kind of hassle-free convenience! (By the way, if you fly your own plane or have a business that does, the well-equipped Space Center Executive Airport is right here.)
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