Bay Park is an interesting community to me. The concerns about schools are legit – but the central location and potential views make it an awesome location.
When we were looking, before the opportunity to buy the house I grew up in, from my dad, came up, we looked hard at Bay Park and Bay Ho. Bay Ho was a bit cheaper, so we looked harder at that area. Unfortunately, this was 2002 and the bubble froth was starting… so we couldn’t justify pulling the trigger on anything we saw.
But I’m NOT a cookie cutter house, HOA, new construction type of person. I live in University City and it’s too “tract home” for me, despite all the customizations people have done on their homes in the past 45 years. So if you want the new construction type home my opinion is the opposite of what you want to do.