The involvement is newsworthy since Duke-Weeks' conventionally-constructed projects rarely reach the controversy stage, in Central Florida at least.

The residents allege the Indianapolis-based REIT's project, whose estimated hard construction cost is $25 million, doesn't blend in with the 134 homes in the affluent, wooded subdivision. Critics maintain the identical 25-foot-high buildings, shown on architectural drawings, look more like retail big-box structures or industrial facilities that would be out of place in a residential neighborhood.

The 34-acre site is immediately east of the Tall Trees community at the northwest corner of International Parkway and Wilson Road.