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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

2006 Awards

  • 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

2005 Awards

  • 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

2004 Awards

  • 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

2003 Awards

  • 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

2002 Awards

  • 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

2001 Awards

  • 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”

2000 Awards

  • 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

1999 Awards

  • 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