2008 Awards

Bonita Bay, Mediterra and TwinEagles included in Travel + Leisure Golf magazine’s top 100 golf communities
Azure, a 26-story high-rise at Bonita Bay, earned a Silver Award from the Sales and Marketing Council of the National Association of Home Builders for best landscape design in the Florida-Georgia region

2007 Awards

LINKS magazine names Bonita Bay and Mediterra on list of America’s 100 Premier Properties
Bonita Bay Club’s Fireside Room receives 2007 Wine Enthusiast’s Award of Distinction
Whispering Oak, the Jack Nicklaus and Jack Nicklaus II co-designed championship golf course at Verandah, is named a top new course by Golf Inc.
Golf Connoisseur names Bonita Bay as one of the top 40 golf communities in America
Project EverGreen names Verandah a winner of its prestigious Because Green Matters Award for 2007
Verandah receives the 2007 Green Building Best Practices Award from the Council for Sustainable Florida
Verandah earns the Florida Urban Forestry Council’s Trees Florida 2007 Award in the outstanding project category

Bonita Bay, Mediterra and TwinEagles included in Travel + Leisure Golf’s top 100 golf communities
Verandah’s River House earns the Southeast Building Conference’s Aurora Award
Verandah is chosen 2006 winner of the Florida Association of Realtors Environmental Award, residential category
Golf Living ranks Bonita Bay and Mediterra among 50 Best Places to Live in America

Mediterra is named 2005 Award of Excellence winner by the Florida chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects in the open space category
Bonita Bay Group Chairman, David Lucas, is listed as one of the country’s top 100 most influential golf course developers by Golf Inc.
Verandah is named Community of the Year in the Lee Building Industry Association’s Pinnacle Awards and Mediterra is chosen Community of the Year for the fourth consecutive year by the Collier Building Industry Association

Three of Bonita Bay Club’s five golf courses rank in the top 100 list of America’s Best Residential Golf Courses by Golfweek
The Environmental Protection Agency honors Bonita Bay Group with its Five-Star Restoration Program Award

The Bonita Bay community is certified as an Audubon International Cooperative Sanctuary
Mediterra’s first neighborhood park, Parque Celestial, is named an Award of Excellence winner by the Florida Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects
Bonita Bay Group is named Development Company of the Year at Lee Building Industry Association’s Pinnacle Awards
The Council for Sustainable Florida announces that Mediterra has earned their Promising Practices Award for its efforts to manage, protect and restore Florida’s natural assets
The Sabal Course at Bonita Bay Club East is ranked No. 74, and the Bay Island Course at Bonita Bay Club West is rated No. 80 in Golfweek’s list of America’s Best Residential Golf Courses

The Estates at TwinEagles earns a top award from the Council for Sustainable Florida
Two of Bonita Bay’s five golf courses are named to Golfweek’s list of America’s Best Residential Golf Courses for 2003. The Sabal Course is ranked No. 74, and the Bay Island Course is ranked No. 80
Verandah is certified by the Florida Green Building Coalition as the state’s first Green Development
Bonita Bay Group is named Developer of the Year for an unprecedented fourth consecutive year by the Lee County Building Industry Association. The Pinnacle Awards also honored The Brooks as Community of the Year for the fourth consecutive year
For the third consecutive year, The Brooks is named America’s 14th Best-Selling Community by the research firm Robert Charles Lesser & Co.
The Club at Mediterra earns the Environmental Leader in Golf Award from the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America and Golf Digest
Bonita Bay Group is named one of the Largest Management Companies by Golf Inc.
Verandah receives the Florida Planning & Zoning Association’s top award

The Brooks Beach Club earns the top award from the Council for Sustainable Florida
The Brooks wins an Aurora Award in the 501 plus-acre residential development category from the Southeast Building Conference
The Bonita Bay Marina Club is awarded Clean Marina Certification by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection
The Shadow Wood Community Association is designated as a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary by Audubon International
The Club at TwinEagles and community receive certification as Audubon International Signature Sanctuary
Mediterra certified as the world’s first private, 36-hole Audubon International Silver Signature Sanctuary

TwinEagles named to Golf & Travel’s list of the 12 Most Intriguing Golf Communities in America
Town Center at The Brooks is awarded the inaugural Lee County Award of Excellence
The Brooks is named one of America’s 100 Best Master-planned Communities by Where to Retire
Mediterra’s South Course is certified as an Audubon International Signature Sanctuary. The course is the fourth course in the world to achieve this designation
Bonita Bay is featured as a case study to illustrate the principles of smart growth in the Urban Land Institute’s new book, “The Smart Growth Tool Kit”

Bonita Bay receives the Sustainable Florida Award for Outstanding Performance from the Council for Sustainable Florida
Bonita Bay Group receives the first ever Green Advantage Outstanding Corporate Commitment Award by the Florida Energy Extension Service at the University of Florida

Bonita Bay receives the Award for Excellence as the nation’s most outstanding large-scale community by the Urban Land Institute
Golf Digest and the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America names Bonita Bay the Environmental Leader in Golf