About The Plantation
The Plantation is a gated community of 1,719 single-family homes in Fort Myers, built around an 18-hole championship golf course designed by Dr. Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry (a multi-million-dollar course renovation is in process as of August 2026, with golf waiting-list memberships being accepted). Day to day, the nearest golf course, The Plantation Golf & Country Club, is about 0.7 miles straight-line from the community's center; the nearest library, East County Regional Library, is about 5.1 miles away; the nearest hospital, Lee Health Fort Myers, about 3.9 miles.
Amenities — the Plantation Golf & Country Club is a private club — membership is separate from home ownership, per the club's own site — include an 18-hole championship golf course designed by Dr. Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry (a multi-million-dollar course renovation is in process as of August 2026, with golf waiting-list memberships being accepted), the club's dining and event spaces with a full social calendar, practice facilities.
On paper, the community sits in evacuation zone D, and all of its mapped flood features (100%) fall in zone X, outside the high-risk flood area. The average assessed just value across its 2,065 residential parcels was $496,843 in the county's 2026 roll.
Two features set the terms at The Plantation before any amenity does, and both come down to structure. The first is the club. Unlike bundled-golf communities where membership rides with the deed, the Plantation Golf & Country Club is a private club, with membership sold separately from the home — so owning here neither forces you to fund the course nor guarantees you a tee time. The 18-hole Dr. Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry design is mid-renovation as of August 2026, with golf memberships currently offered through a waiting list. For a buyer who intends to play, that's the first thing to confirm; for one who doesn't, it's a cost you won't carry.
The second is the CDD line on the tax bill, and its name trips people up. The Plantation does carry a community development district, but it reads as the Arborwood CDD — named for the wider Arborwood development plan the community sits inside, not for The Plantation itself. On one sampled 2025 Bridgetown bill that assessment ran $890.77, part of about $1,442 in non-ad-valorem charges that also include City of Fort Myers fire, solid-waste and stormwater lines, since the community sits inside city limits rather than unincorporated county.
It also helps to know the community is really two villages under one gated umbrella: Bridgetown (985 homes) and Somerset (734 homes), roughly 1,719 single-family homes built between 2007 and 2020 by Centex and then Pulte, which absorbed Centex in 2009. There is no single master association — each village runs its own, so which fees and rules apply depends on where your home sits.
A couple of practical notes: the community falls in evacuation Zone D, homes here sit largely in flood Zone X, and fixed internet runs up to gigabit-plus over Xfinity cable. Confirm current dues, club terms and village rules directly with the association for the village you're buying in — this page is an independent, records-based starting point, not affiliated with the HOA, club, or developer.
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