Open a listing at Fairways at Bonaventure and you will find the same phrase in nearly every unit description: golf course views. Screened balcony overlooking the greens. Back door opens to the fairway. The language treats the course outside the window as fixed scenery, the kind of amenity that comes with the building the way a lobby or a pool does.
It isn't fixed. Over the past decade and a half, the land under that view has changed hands, changed use, and changed shape more than once, and the pattern in how Weston's city commission has voted on each attempt tells you something specific about what is likely to happen to what's left.
The Course You're Looking At Already Lost Its Twin
Bonaventure was built as a resort-and-golf complex in the 1970s, and for most of its life it carried two full 18-hole courses. One of them, known as the West Course or the Resort Course, closed for business in 2013. At some point before or around that closure, Chetrit Group, the owner of the broader Bonaventure complex at the time, sold that second course to Miami-based Terra Group for $30 million. That land didn't stay a golf course. It became Botaniko, the gated enclave of architect-designed modern homes that now markets itself on lake views and clean-lined construction rather than fairways.
So the course that still operates today, the one advertised in every Fairways at Bonaventure and Country Club Village listing, is already the survivor. It's the one that didn't get sold off first.
The Resort Went Next, and Not Quietly
The golf course wasn't the only piece of the original complex in play. The Bonaventure Resort & Spa itself, a 504-room hotel on a separate 22.5-acre parcel at 250 Racquet Club Road, went through its own sequence of attempted redevelopment.
In 2020, the city approved a site plan for four 12-story residential towers plus a 342-room hotel and a five-story parking garage on that site. It was never built. In 2022, Atlanta-based Gables Residential paid $50 million for the property, demolished the resort, and proposed a mixed plan built around 384 rental apartments, along with townhouses and single-family homes. In August 2024, the Weston City Commission rejected that rezoning on a 4-1 vote after roughly 20 residents spoke against it at the meeting. Commissioner Mary Molina-Mache summed up the objection to the rental component directly: "That development does not fit into Bonaventure." Commissioner Chris Eddy cast the lone vote in favor, noting that about 35 percent of Weston's housing stock is already rental. He was outvoted.
That rejection matters for what came next, because it establishes what the city was actually objecting to. It wasn't density in the abstract. It was a specific shape of density.
Two Bids, Two Outcomes
Less than two years after the commission killed the Gables plan, a different developer brought a different kind of proposal to a different piece of the Bonaventure complex, and this one cleared the vote. Florida YIMBY reported that Aventura-based H&M Development put a rezoning request on the commission's May 4, 2026 agenda, seeking to convert 13.4 acres of the still-operating 180-acre Bonaventure Golf Club, at 200 Bonaventure Blvd, from golf course and irregular residential to multi-family. The commission approved it. The plan calls for 163 senior living units in a five-story building, with resort-style amenities including a pool, as the first of two phases. The project carries a price tag of more than $150 million, with $10 million of that earmarked specifically for improvements to the golf course itself. MSA Architects designed the venture, and H&M has the site under contract from CG Golf Venture LLC, the course's current owner.
Placed side by side, the difference in outcomes is legible:
| Gables Residential (2024) | H&M Development (2026) | |
|---|---|---|
| Site | Former resort site, 22.5 acres | Active golf course, 13.4 of 180 acres |
| Model | 384 rental apartments plus for-sale units | 163 senior living units, ownership model, phase one |
| Community framing | Large-scale rental complex | Smaller carve-out, amenity reinvestment pledged |
| Commission vote | Rejected 4-1 | Approved |
The Pattern Underneath the Vote
Neither vote was about whether Bonaventure's open land should stay untouched. Both developers were asking to build. What separated them was scale, ownership structure, and what the project promised to put back. Gables was proposing a large rental complex on a site that had already lost its resort. H&M is proposing a smaller, ownership-model project that pledges money back into the golf amenity that remains.
That distinction is the actual information here, more than the acreage total. If you're evaluating a home or condo in Bonaventure based partly on its view of the golf course, the relevant question isn't whether the course is protected from development. The historical record says it isn't, and hasn't been for over a decade. The relevant question is what kind of proposal is likely to clear the commission next, because that shapes whether future carve-outs happen at the edges of the course (as with the 13.4-acre senior living site) or whether a future owner tries something larger and rental-heavy, which the record suggests faces real resistance.
What This Means If You're Pricing a Golf View in Bonaventure
If you're comparing homes in Bonaventure against other Weston communities, a few things are worth confirming before that view factors into your offer.
First, know which acreage you're actually looking at. The Fairways at Bonaventure building, completed in 1982 with 224 units, overlooks the golf club directly, and its value proposition is tied to that sightline in a way that's harder to separate from the land underneath it than marketing copy suggests. Ask your agent or the listing agent whether the specific unit's exposure faces any part of the 180 acres currently under contract or discussion, versus a section further from the current development activity.
Second, check the condo or HOA documents for any language tied to golf course use, easements, or amenity guarantees. Bonaventure Town Center Club membership, which many of these communities reference as a separate perk from the course view itself, is a distinct arrangement from the golf course's ownership and zoning status. Don't assume one protects the other.
Third, if the view is a meaningful part of what you're paying for, it's reasonable to ask a title company or your agent to pull recent Weston City Commission agendas for any pending items touching the remaining course acreage before you waive a contingency. The May 2026 approval was public record well before the vote happened. The next one will be too.
Common Questions About Bonaventure's Redevelopment
Is the Bonaventure Golf Club closing entirely? No. The May 2026 approval covers 13.4 of the course's 180 acres for the first phase of a senior living project. The remaining course continues to operate, and the developer has pledged $10 million toward improvements to it as part of the deal.
Does this affect homes outside the golf course communities in Weston? Not directly. This is specific to the Bonaventure complex and its long-running redevelopment history. Other Weston neighborhoods without a golf course or resort component aren't part of this pattern.
What happened to the old Bonaventure Resort & Spa site? It was demolished by Gables Residential in 2022. The company's 2024 rezoning request for 384 rental apartments on that site was rejected by the city commission, and the land's next use hasn't been finalized publicly since.
If you're weighing a home in Bonaventure against other options in Weston, or you're trying to figure out what a specific listing's golf course exposure is actually worth long term, that's exactly the kind of question a local track record can answer better than a listing description. The Scarberry Group has spent more than three decades reading Weston's market at street level, and we're glad to walk through what a specific property's location within Bonaventure means for its value before you write an offer. Request a complimentary home valuation and staging consultation, and let's look at the actual land, not just the listing photos.
