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 The Bolivar Peninsula is undergoing a wonderful and radical transformation into a modern resort area on par with anyplace on the Texas Coast.
The best part is that with today's new attention to city development and law enforcement, coupled with the buffer provided by our ferry system - the new Bolivar Peninsula is void of the major crime problems and other related issues associated with being close to large metropolises.
The Bolivar Peninsula now has all the modern resort amenities complete with underground utilities, clean water, sewer, high speed internet, cable, cell phone coverage, shopping, pools, rental management and much more. We even have our own manufacturing facility which creates insurance certified hurricane resistant homes.
If you have not seen the Bolivar Peninsula lately and you're a fan of oceanfront living, it's a must see item on your agenda.
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 | | Modern Bolivar Parallels Historic Roman Resorts Pompeii and Herculaneum | |
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Our modern Bolivar Peninsula bares an uncanny resemblance to the great historic Roman resort cities of Pomeii and Herculaneum.
Both the Romans and the Bolivar Peninsula have enabled the development of resort cities based on water related activities with the addition of modern water systems, sewer systems and underground utilities.
In their case, they invented them - in our case, we just implemented them!
In both cases, the new resorts were popular and beautiful.
They fostered a sense of community around their new bath houses and we around our oceanfront and bayside developments.
They attracted many visitors to their resorts who wanted to partake of the water community amenities - as do we.
The one difference is that we have not created a goddess for our new sewer system. |  |
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Bolivar property attracts investors
Beachfront land eventually may be home to thousands
By NANCY SARNOFF
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
A group from Dallas has purchased 2,795 acres of beachfront property on Bolivar Peninsula for a residential development that could include thousands of homes.
But the companies — Provident Realty Advisors and the PNL Cos., also of Dallas — said they don't expect to develop the land for at least two years.
"We may get into it and decide the market's not ready for this," said Jay Hawes, a development partner with Provident, which develops master-planned communities and other types of real estate.
The land's price was not disclosed, but Hawes said he saw it as a good investment, as the area is on an upswing.
While Bolivar hasn't seen the kind of development that its Galveston Island neighbor has, it has started to attract beach house developers and second-home buyers looking for an alternative to the island.
Developers see the area as a bargain compared to property on the east and west coasts, said Stephen Dinjar, owner of Galveston realty firm Barefoot Properties, who sold land on Bolivar to a developer for one of the area's newer residential projects, Avocet, a Polynesian-style development with a beach club.
Hawes said Bolivar's "going in a good direction," with developers getting permits for about 90 homes per year and some beach houses now selling for up to $1 million.
The demographics on Bolivar are changing as well.
"It used to be only the Port Arthur and Beaumont crowd that came down. Houses were extremely cheap," Dinjar said. "Now you're seeing more and more Houstonians."
Provident is studying exactly how much of its newly acquired land can be developed and how much is encumbered by wetlands.
Hawes estimates between 30 and 40 percent of the property can be developed.
"I don't picture it being a very dense development," said Hawes, though it may be styled architecturally after Seaside, a neotraditional resort community in the Florida Panhandle.
The property, known as Cade Ranch, is considered one of the largest and few remaining beachfront properties on Texas' Gulf Coast, according to real estate firm CB Richard Ellis, which represented the seller, Crown Team Texas, in the transaction. The site has more than 13,000 feet of frontage on the Gulf of Mexico and Intracoastal Waterway.
Located about 90 minutes from Houston, "it's a little bit farther to get there, but it's still not a very far drive for a weekend home," John Endendyk of CB Richard Ellis said.
Still, Bolivar has typically played second fiddle to Galveston.
To get there, visitors have to go through Winnie off Interstate 10 east or take a ferry from Galveston.
And there's still little in the way of major restaurants, grocery stores and entertainment venues compared to the island.
"The commercial side of it is still developing," Hawes said. |
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