A delivery date in a brochure is an estimate. The one that binds is in the contract, and it is later. At Caretta, here is how to read both.
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The brochure gives a season or a year. The purchase agreement gives an outside date, often with extensions for weather, permits and force majeure, after which a buyer may have the right to cancel and recover deposits. Everything between the two dates is the developer’s discretion, and the difference can be a year or more.
Caretta: 95 luxury residences; architectural-grade fixtures, freestanding tubs, custom stone vanities, recessed LED lighting; bedroom mix and size ranges not published in the intake materials.
Read it against the Kempinski Residences Miami Design District dossier for the nearest comparison.
Groundbreaking, foundation, the first residential floor poured, topping off, glass closed, interiors begun, the temporary certificate of occupancy. Each is a date a developer publishes or a site photograph shows. A buyer who tracks them knows before the sales office calls.
Caretta: JDL, Chicago-based luxury residential developer led by principal Jim Letchinger; more than 3,000 units built, known for 9 Walton and One Chicago.
Deposits stay in escrow for longer; a mortgage rate lock may expire; a lease may need extending; a currency may move. None of this is in the brochure. The contract says what the developer owes you for lateness, which is usually nothing until the outside date.
Caretta: The deposit schedule is held by the desk and read with you before contract.
What is the outside date in the contract, and what are my rights if it passes? The desk has the contract and reads the clause with you.
Plan for the outside date. Celebrate the estimate if it comes true.
Developer materials for Caretta as carried on the live dossier, verified September 2026. Compiled by the desk at Miami Dossier; figures are approximate and the developer’s.
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