Bluegreen Communities - History

History

The Bluegreen Corporation was founded in 1966, with the core business of buying, improving, selling and financing land. They incorporated in 1985 and were listed on the New York Stock Exchange the following year. In 1994, Bluegreen Resorts was established with its first timeshare resort in the Great Smoky Mountains. Later that year, they established resorts in Myrtle Beach and Florida. In 1996, Bluegreen Communities began construction on its first daily-fee golf course.

Bluegreen acquired RDI Group in 1997, thereby adding resorts in Florida and Wisconsin, as well as management contracts with other resorts in the southeast. Because of this purchase, Bluegreen became one of the largest property managers of timeshare resorts in the U.S., and shortly thereafter began marketing vacation ownership at Bluegreen resorts under the Bluegreen Vacation Club name.

In 2000, Bluegreen established one of the timeshare industry’s first national retail alliances through a marketing agreement with Bass Pro Shops, Inc. The agreement provides the company opportunities to market Bluegreen resort vacation packages at Bass Pro retail locations, in their catalogs and on the company's web site.

In 2002, Bluegreen acquired TakeMeOnVacation, LLC. Since 2005, new Bluegreen resorts locations have been added in destinations including Las Vegas, Williamsburg, Phoenix, Atlantic City, New Orleans, the Bahamas and Cape Cod.