In the highly sought after location on the Western Coastline of New Providence Island, Nassau, The Bahamas, the Old Fort Bay Community is being developed as a prestigious community with an emphasis on privacy and security. While integrating state-of-the-art amenities, the Community of Old Fort Bay maintains its island heritage by preserving native vegetation & providing access to white sandy beaches and tropical waters. With Club membership, all residents have beach access.

This historical estate has been transformed into a unique twenty four hour gated community boasting Venetian Villas & Club Villas with lush tropical landscaping, canal lots, exceptional home sites and one of the most beautiful beaches in The Bahamas.

Available to residents in the development and surrounding area is membership to the Club at Old Fort. The Club is housed in a truly magnificent Spanish-styled Building known as 'The Old Fort' which is thought to have been built on the site of an old fortress.

Members will be able to relax on the veranda under the towering silk cotton trees and enjoy drinks and dinner with friends after a workout in the modern fitness centre.

Nestled on the western end of the island, Old Fort Bay, adjacent to Lyford Cay, is 10 minutes from Nassau's International and Private Airports.

Within easy access to the Florida Coast by air or sea, this location makes Old Fort Bay an ideal tropical retreat.

The Architecture of Old Fort Bay will be characterized by its distinctiveness and diversity. A notable level of style, coherency and consistency shall be prevalent throughout the individual family residences and the community as a whole.

This is achieved with the implementation of an Architectural Code which rather than regulating the style or shape or size of houses, promotes instead traditional residential types as a more effective means of arriving at a comprehensively designed whole.

Style is an expression of character. Every house at Old Fort Bay should represent the individual and personal desire and expression of its owner. The singularity and uniqueness, which comes from personal expression, will enrich and distinguish the architecture of Old Fort Bay. Furthermore different styles of architecture will satisfy more practical and utilitarian considerations in home building such as an ability to take fuller advantage of the opportunities offered by the different views, landscapes and topography of the Old Fort site.

The traditional residential type addresses the collective nature of a community. Because residential types share in common fundamental architectural elements and because they define relationships between house and street or house and plaza in generic terms they are best used in developing a systematic and rational architectural response to the varied parts and phases of development at the Old Fort Bay site.

The traditions of housing types from where the architecture of Old Fort Bay might be drawn are to be found not merely in New Providence or The Bahamas but throughout the Greater Antilles and across the Ocean to the Mediterranean, the sister sea of the Caribbean.

The coherence and consistency evident in the architecture of a neighborhood in Venice, as an example, is what the architectural code promotes. The residential type will define not only a particular place or neighborhood but will also aid in establishing for the whole of Old Fort Bay an identity and a sense of place.

A sense of place is further defined at Old Fort Bay with the recognition of the public areas as the civic realm of the community. The Architecture of the public realm therefore is resolutely civil in design and the dominant impulse is to enhance the quality of public buildings. The squares, walks, promenades, parks and plazas, as well as the garden pavilions and gazebos built across the extent of the site will serve as exemplary models of the architecture and civic commitment of the development at Old Fort Bay.

The overall development is governed by the Architectural Code. The purpose of the code is to create unifying design elements between the various phases of the development.

A fundamental objective is to employ the elements of classical proportion in the design of all homes. There is no preferred style as such. However, the developer has designated certain areas that will be heavily influenced by a particular style. These styles emanate from historical developments in the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas. In other areas, owners are free to choose their own preferred style of building.

In all cases, buildings must conform to the Architectural Code which regulates size, height and building placement. Further, the plans must be developed by an Architect and be submitted to the developer for approval. There is a further requirement that detailed landscape plans will be submitted for approval. The developer reserves the right to enforce the installation of landscape and buildings in accordance with the plans submitted.