WEST PALM BEACH — The
fairways of the long-ago shuttered golf course at Century
Village near West Palm Beach will soon be home to 621
townhomes.
Palm Beach County
commissioners Thursday approved D.R. Horton’s plans to build
the townhouses on 57.3 acres adjacent to the Southampton
condominium buildings at Century Village. The approval
happened with no debate among commissioners and no public
testimony opposing the plan.
The project on the former site of the Turtle Bay Golf Club
is expected to be completed within two years.
None of the current county commissioners were in office when
a different owner sought approval 10 years ago for a more
intense project that called for an assisted-living facility,
a civic center, 84,500 square feet of shops and offices and
nearly 700 residences. A deeply divided county commission
voted 4-3 to approve the plans; residents, who packed the
commission chambers objected to the plans and threatened a
lawsuit.
Reflection Bay project smaller than version proposed decade
ago
The parcel's owner at that time, Andrew Waldman, never moved
forward with his plans. In July 2022, D.R. Horton and an
affiliate of Kolter Group paid $36.9 million for the parcel,
and then scaled back what would be built and worked closely
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Site marked in red shows the development planned by
D.R. Horton for the shuttered golf course at Century Village in West
Palm Beach.
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With the surge in
population and limited areas available for development,
residential developers have been purchasing golf courses
throughout Palm Beach County.
Altman Cos. recently paid $14 million for
110 acres within the Fountains Country Club, west of Lake
Worth Beach. Plans call for a garden-style community with
318 apartments. GL Homes is building a high-end development
on the site of what used to be the Boca Raton Municipal Golf
Course.
Townhouse prices expected to run in
$200,000 range
Reflection Bay will be built on the southwest corner of
Century Boulevard and Haverhill Road, about 630 feet north
of Okeechobee Boulevard. It will have a 4-acre recreation
area. Prices are expected to range between $166,000 and
$308,000. D.R.
Horton must comply with the following conditions:
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Construct a
southbound left-turn lane on Haverhill Road
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Separate its
townhomes from the four-story condo buildings at Century
Village by creating buffers
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Provide 24
workforce housing residences
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The Reflection Bay subdivision is vacant commercial
land adjacent to Century Village west of Haverhill Road near West
Palm Beach, Fla. It was once home to Turtle Bay Golf Course. The
Palm Beach Post photographed these locked gates at the property on
Tuesday, June 29, 2021.
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