GL Homes, one of Florida’s largest homebuilders, is proposing hundreds of homes on a golf course in Palm Beach County near Lake Worth Beach.
The developer, led by Misha Ezratti, is seeking the county’s approval for a development that includes 500 single-family homes and 300 apartments, the Palm Beach Post reported.
The plan is to redevelop the 168-acre site of the Falls Club at 6455 South Jog Road in an unincorporated part of the county near Lake Worth Beach. GL is requesting a zoning change to make the site a planned-unit development, the outlet reported.
The developer is planning a clubhouse, tennis courts and pickleball courts as shared amenities for the single-family homes. The apartment complex will stand six stories and includes its own recreational facilities. The plan also includes nine lakes spanning 35 acres.
Records show GL acquired the site for $4.6 million in 2015. It was required to maintain operation of the golf course for 10 years.
Ezratti’s father Itzhak Ezratti co-founded Sunrise-based GL Homes in 1976. The firm has thousands of planned units in the pipeline throughout Florida, but that doesn’t mean the Falls Club proposal is guaranteed approval.
In 2023, Palm Beach County rejected a proposal from GL to build 1,277 homes in the Agricultural Reserve west of Boca Raton that involved a 1,600-acre land swap.
“You can put lipstick on a pig — call it a land swap, add sweeteners, add a water project, add workforce housing, and so on. Folks, it is still a pig,” commissioner Mack Bernard said at the time.
Last year, the homeowners association for Boca Bridges, a 504-unit single-family home community GL completed in 2023, sued the builder alleging shoddy construction. Also last year, GL lost a legal fight over a controversial 550-home development on the Calusa golf course near Kendall, effectively nixing the project. –– Kate Hinsche
