Pond Bay is underway
Oh boy. It’s official. The island’s newest big development is underway. Pond Bay Club, on Chocolate Hole, has been a decade in the making, and main roads are now being cut (minus the expected ceremonious groundbreaking fanfare.)
Hold on folks. At least give props to the Estate Chocolate Hole Landowners Association, which has been holding this developer’s feet to the fire for years. ECHLA has some clout here, and it deserves some credit for keeping this project in check.
We also hear developer has actually scaled BACK the scope of the project, and is working with the architect to make it “a more West Indian, less South Florida-looking project.” Well, that’s what we hear anyway. Read about Pond Bay here.
June 8th, 2007 06:41
That view of Chocolate Hole looks frighteningly similar to that from our house being built off the lower end of 104.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hthphoto/499906819/in/set-72157600218406799/
Were you guys tresspassing?
June 8th, 2007 08:04
I just fliiped through your construction photos so where’s your construction blog and when can we rent it
Looks like your neighbors with the Bongo Boyz or at least close by
June 8th, 2007 15:35
We are technically in Rendezvous and Ditleff, not Chocolate Hole, but yes, we will be neighbors of the Bongo Boyz and will hopefully meet them in person one day. Builder says he’ll be done in October….soon come.
We’re too lazy to have a construction blog, so Russ and Jeff get major props points for that. We do have a blog of our life in Switzerland, where we are living in the meantime: www.inderschweiz.blogspot.com, but it’s not updated as frequently as this one. Again…lazy.
June 8th, 2007 16:11
Savor that pretty picture of Chocolate Hole. The entire site of the future Pond Bay Club has been bulldozed.
June 9th, 2007 07:21
We are “Island Neighbors” Coral Bay (Seagrape Hill) to be exact, of the Bongo Boyz…yes We have a construction blog you check it out at: www.gooseneckwatergardens.com/BoAtabey.ivnu
June 13th, 2007 11:45
Here is an updated picture of that site bulldozed, taken last Sunday by Matt.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gmliii/543712397/in/set-72157600347397335/
Definitely an ugly scar when compared to the “before” photos. Hopefully it won’t stay like that for another 10 years.