Bonita Bay Group Awards and Achievements

2008 Awards and Acheivements

	Bonita Bay Group, which employs 750 and has created seven master-planned communities in Southwest Florida, was named the recipient of the 2008 Uncommon Friends Foundation Business Ethics Award. The award was announced during the UFF’s annual “Uncommon Evening” dinner at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort & Spa. Bonita Bay Group and its deeply engrained business philosophy – to do the right thing – has been recognized as a prime example of ethics in business.
	Verandah, the 1,456-acre master-planned community being developed by Bonita Bay Group along a 1.75-mile stretch of the Orange River in Fort Myers, capped a stellar year of regional and national recognition when it was named the Community of the Year (500+ acres) by the Lee Building Industry Association during the annual Pinnacle Awards program in April, repeating an honor the community also received in 2005.
	Verandah, Bonita Bay Group’s 1,456-acre master-planned community built in harmony with the environment was named a top five finalist for the 2008 Visionary Award, presented by Sustainable Land Development International. The announcement was made during the annual Land Development Breakthroughs conference earlier this month in Austin, Texas.
	The Brooks by Bonita Bay Group received the 2008 David Graham Memorial Award for Exceptional Development from the Estero Community Planning Panel and its Estero Design Review Committee. The award, presented to Kitty Green, president and CEO of Bonita Bay Group, was named for the late Bonita Bay Group vice president of planning & development who was also an original member of the Estero Community Planning Panel.
	Azure at Bonita Bay has earned a Silver Award from the Sales and Marketing Council of the National Association of Home Builders for the best landscape design in the Florida-Georgia region. Judges honored the landscape design of the 26-story high-rise for effectively integrating with the natural environment of the surrounding Bonita Bay community.
	Sandoval’s Lagoon Pool designed by Jackson Pools earned a gold award as the top entry in its category from the Association of Pool and Spa Professionals. Each year, up to eight judges from diverse areas of the industry nationwide evaluate entries for quality of building design, workmanship, soundness of design, safety measures and aesthetic features in a search for what the organizations describes as the most beautiful, creative and technologically advanced installations.
	The Fireside Room at the Bonita Bay Club has been selected at one of the nation’s most wine-friendly restaurants by the monthly magazine Wine Enthusiast.
	Bonita Bay, Mediterra and TwinEagles- three of Bonita Bay Group’s six communities have been included in the Travel & Leisure Golf magazine’s 2008 list of the top 100 golf communities. The list published in the January/February issue, “seeks out superb golf, luxury residences, extraordinary locations and a breadth of lifestyle opportunities,” according to the magazine.

More Bonita Bay Group Awards ad Achievements from previous years are listed below:

2007 Awards and Acheivements

	Three of Bonita Bay Group's Web sites have won the 2007 W3 Awards from the International Academy of Visual Arts. Mediterranaples.com, and the corporate site for Bonita Bay Group, BonitaBayGroup.com, received silver awards for overall outstanding entries. Verandah.com received recognition as a gold winner.
	LINKS Magazine included Bonita Bay and Mediterra, two of Bonita Bay Group’s six Southwest Florida master-planned communities, on its 2007-08 list of America’s 100 Premier Properties, an annual guide to the best golf communities.
	Bonita Bay Club’s Fireside Room is the proud recipient of the 2007 Wine Enthusiast Magazine’s Award of Distinction. The Fireside Room is one of a select number of restaurants in North America to be honored in 2007 with this level of distinction.
	Whispering Oak, the Jack Nicklaus and Jack Nicklaus II co-designed championship golf course at Verandah, has been named one of Golf Inc. magazine’s top new courses. The 18-hole course, which opened in January 2007, was among the top five finalists for the 2007 Golf Inc. Development of the Year in the private course category.
	Golf Connoisseur has named Bonita Bay as one of the top 40 golf communities in America, on its inaugural list of the best places to live and play in the U.S. Bonita Bay was selected for its variety of residential options, 1,400 acres of parks, lakes, preserves and open spaces, marina with access to the Gulf of Mexico, and five golf courses, designed by Arthur Hills and Tom Fazio.
	IN Good Company, Bonita Bay Group’s new lifestyle magazine, has received the Florida Public Relations Association’s Golden Image Award of Distinction. IN Good Company is published twice annually in partnership with Gulfshore Life, Southwest Florida’s leading lifestyle magazine. The inaugural 88-page issue debuted in February and captured the experience of living in the company’s communities through photo essays, resident and club profiles, and articles highlighting the local lifestyle.
	Project EverGreen has named Verandah a winner of its prestigious Because Green Matters award for 2007. Project EverGreen honors the company, organization or individual that promotes the beneficial effects of green spaces through a major project to create or improve a green space with this annual award program.
	Verandah’s emphasis on green building, its respect for the land and its comprehensive approach to sustainability earned the Fort Myers community the 2007 Green Building Best Practices Award from the Council for Sustainable Florida. Verandah earned the honor in the green building category.
	Verandah has earned the Florida Urban Forestry Council’s Trees Florida 2007 Award in the outstanding project category. The community was recognized for its development plan that preserved trees already in place. In creating Verandah, Bonita Bay Group reworked development plans repeatedly to accommodate existing hammocks of live oaks and stands of native sabal palms.

2006 Awards and Acheivements

	The Club at Mediterra has been selected as one of the Platinum Clubs of America, as published recently in the Club Leaders Forum. The rating was based on the results of a survey of Club Presidents and Club Managers across the country and listed Mediterra as one of America’s top 100 private country clubs.
	Verandah’s River House, home to the community’s Alligator Pear restaurant, Jesse Fish lounge and River Terrace, has earned the Southeast Building Conference’s prestigious Aurora Award. The nationally recognized Aurora Awards honor builders, designers, architects and other homebuilding industry professionals in a 12-state southeast region stretching from Texas to Virginia.
	Verandah was chosen as the 2006 winner of the Florida Association of Realtors (FAR) Environmental Award, residential category. This year marks the 20th year that FAR has been awarding the ENVY Award to honor those Florida developers whose projects demonstrate their ability to build quality projects that respect and preserve the state’s natural environment.
	Verandah receives Beautification Award from the East Lee County Council. The award recognizes, honors and inspires businesses along the Palm Beach Boulevard corridor that work to enhance and beautify the city of Fort Myers and the east Lee County community
	Resource Conservation Systems (RCS) earns David W. York Reuse Award from the Florida Water Environment Association (FWEA). RCS was recognized for outstanding reclaimed water customer. The award recognizes leaders in promoting the Florida Water Resources Reuse Program.
	Golf Magazine Living ranks Bonita Bay and Mediterra among 50 Best Places to Live in America. Some of the factors weighed; property values, quality of golf, proximity to metro areas, health care and transportation. Golf Magazine Living bills itself as the essential guide to living the golf community lifestyle.
	Bonita Bay and Mediterra ranked among Travel+Leisure Golf’s top 100 golf communities in America. In compiling the list, Travel + Leisure Golf evaluated more than 2,000 private golf courses for the January 2006 issue and is described as the definitive guide of “the best places to live – and live well.”

2005 Awards and Acheivements

2004 Awards and Acheivements

	The Bonita Bay community was certified as an Audubon International Cooperative Sanctuary, adding it to an elite list of only five other properties in Florida – The Brooks included – and 38 in the world that have received the designation.
	Mediterra's first neighborhood park, Parque Celestial, has been named an Award of Excellence winner by the Florida chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
	Resource Conservation Systems earned the Best in Class designation from the American Water Works Association during the 2004 Water Conservation Award for Excellence competition. A panel of judges chose RCS as the winning entry in the alternative water-supply category, praising the company as an outstanding example of achievement in water reuse and recycling and citing its work in developing public/private partnerships.
	Bonita Bay Group is named Development Company of the Year at the 14th Annual Pinnacle Awards. The company has earned the designation for an unprecedented fifth consecutive year. Sponsored by the Lee Building Industry Association, the Pinnacle Awards program recognizes excellence in communities, developers, product design and interior design, as well as sales and marketing. The community .Bonita Bay received the Pinnacle award for the Best Community Event for Residents in recognition of its Old Fashioned Social.
	Verandah is among the first communities nationally to receive recognition for taking steps to reduce its wildfire threat. The 1,456-acre master-planned community, being along the Orange River in Fort Myers , is one of just two Florida communities to receive the 2004 Firewise Communities/USA designation from the The Florida Division of Forestry.
	For the sixth consecutive year, Bonita Bay Group receives the “Family-Friendly Workplace” designation from the Naples Alliance for Children.
	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.
	Mediterra claims the Community of the Year award for a third consecutive year from the Collier Building Industry Association's annual Sand Dollar Awards program and it received the Sand Dollar for Best Clubhouse, in the $900,000-and-up home category.
	For his contributions to the region's economic development and serving as a role model for ethical and moral conduct, Junior Achievement selects Dennis Gilkey as a laureate of the 2004 Lee County Business Leadership Hall of Fame.
	The Sabal Course at Bonita Bay Club East was ranked No. 74 and the Bay Island Course at Bonita Bay Club West was rated No. 80 in Golfweek magazine's list of America 's Best Residential Golf Courses for 2004. They were the top two of just three Southwest Florida courses to make the Top 100 list. Only one other community in the U.S. has more than one golf course on the America 's Best list.

2003 Awards and Acheivements

	The Estates at TwinEagles has earned the top award in its field from the Council for Sustainable Florida during its 2003 Sustainable Florida award competition. The annual awards recognize businesses and individuals for projects that manage, protect and restore Florida’s natural assets.
	Verandah - the 1,456-acre community introduced in February along the Orange River in Fort Myers is certified by the Florida Green Building Coalition as the state’s first Green Development.
	Mediterra is named Community of the Year and The Estates at TwinEagles’ Tour of Dreams is named Best Special Event by the Collier Building Industry Association at its annual Sand Dollar Awards Ceremony. Sales associates at The Brooks and Mediterra are honored with 13 of the 26 Million Dollar Circle Awards presented for sales achievements.
	Bonita Bay Group is named Developer of the Year for an unprecedented fourth consecutive year by the Lee County Building Industry Association. The annual Pinnacle Awards also honored The Brooks as Community of the Year for the fourth consecutive year and Brooks Realty Sales Director John Blosser was named Sales Director of the Year for the second consecutive year. In all, Bonita Bay Group is awarded nine Pinnacle Awards.
	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, the largest golf publication in the world. The award, given in four categories, recognizes golf operations that demonstrate environmental leadership, substantially improve the surrounding ecosystem, and implement innovative approaches that inspire others. This is the second time the company has garnered this prestigious award; Bonita Bay won it in 1999.

2002 Awards and Acheivements

	The Brooks Beach Club earns the top award from the Council for Sustainable Florida (CSF) during its 2002 Sustainable Florida annual award competition. The 2002 award program recognized projects that manage, protect and restore Florida’s coastal areas.
	Bonita Bay Group is recognized with the state’s highest public relations honor when the promotional/marketing campaign for The Estates at TwinEagles™ receives the 2002 All Florida Golden Image Award from the Florida Public Relations Association. The annual award, which recognizes the most outstanding public relations program in the state, was announced during the organization’s annual conference in Orlando. The TwinEagles entry chronicled Bonita Bay Group’s success in transforming the image of the North Naples community during the past two years
	The Brooks wins an Aurora Award in the 501 plus-acre residential development category from the Southeast Building Conference (SEBC). SEBC covers a 12-state area and awards Auroras in 15 general categories each year. Lighthouse Bay, a community within The Brooks, also wins an Aurora Award in the 101 to 500-acre residential development category. In all, Bonita Bay Group and its builders win 17 Auroras for product and interior design, landscaping and interior detailing.
	Bonita Bay Community Association earns the 2002 Floriculture Award, presented by the Florida Nurserymen & Growers Association (FNGA) during its annual Landscape Awards Banquet in Orlando in September. The Floriculture Award recognizes landscapes for outstanding use of color. Bonita Bay took the highest honors in the under $50,000 category, one of three Floriculture categories. It’s the second time the community association has received the prestigious award, having been named the sole Floriculture Award winner in 1999 for its butterfly garden, located on less than an acre in Estero Bay Park.
	The Bonita Bay Marina Club is awarded “Clean Marina Certification” by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

2001 Awards and Acheivements

2000 Awards and Acheivements

1999 Awards and Acheivements

		Jurkowski named salesperson of the month at Verandah Joyce Jurkowski has been named Salesperson of the Month for January at Verandah, the 1,456-acre master-planned community located a more