Lakewood Ranch is an 8,500-acre master-planned community located east of I-75 on the border of Manatee and Sarasota counties. This award-winning community is composed of seven villages, each offering a range of residential options amid lake and nature preserve views.
Notable golf courses include the private Lakewood Ranch Golf and Country Club, featuring 36 holes of championship golf designed by the Palmer Course Design Company and 18 holes of championship golf designed by Rick Robbins, as well as the public Legacy Golf Course, an 18-hole Arnold Palmer signature links course.
Club members enjoy a 44,000-square-foot Italian Villa Clubhouse and an Athletic Center with 18 lighted clay tennis courts, a fitness center with steam rooms and saunas, Junior Olympic pool and resort pool for younger children.
Several commercial parks, a medical center, colleges, a polo club and cricket club are also found here, as well as upscale shopping, dining and cultural venues.
Main Street at Lakewood Ranch is located across from the Lakewood Ranch Medical Center. This outdoor venue offers stylish boutiques and international restaurants, the Lakewood Ranch Cinemas and the Fish Hole, a miniature golf course. Main Street combines elements of the ideal downtown with easy to access stores that make year-round shopping a pleasure. Famous names and specialty shops line the streets.
The open-air environment provides a unique plaza for strolling and shopping. Main Street has its own theater of six screens and shows new release movies, as well as independent films from the Sarasota Film Society. Other events at Main Street include the following: Music on Main, Evening Under the Stars, Suncoast Wine Festival, and Art at the Ranch. During the Christmas season, Main Street attracts locals by creating a huge tree in the middle of its circle drive, decorations, and fake snows that fall from the store’s rooftops; Christmas music is piped in through speakers on the street.
Lakewood Ranch has dedicated half of its land for parks, trails, and recreational fun. The trails alone stretch over 150 miles of the land.
Other recreational activities include polo and cricket. Lakewood Ranch has nine fields and a regulation size arena that can be played on throughout the winter season. The polo fields are located on 35 private ranches with over 600 horses stabled around the Club during the season.
Here, homage is paid to the breathtaking environment that surrounds Lakewood Ranch, which is why the community is proud to have been designated as the largest green-certified community in the US. The commitment to remaining green in all aspects of residential and commercial development remains unwavering.
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