Drive past the Boca Pointe gates today and the clubhouse looks like it always has from the road: the same low profile, the same manicured entrance off the Boardwalk shopping plaza near 18th and Powerline. But walk inside, and almost nothing you'd remember from three or four years ago is where you left it. The card room got new carpet and lighting. A patio with firepits appeared where there used to be lawn. Pickleball courts filled a corner of the sports complex. And this past season, four padel courts went in, lit for night play, next to courts that didn't exist five years ago either.
None of this happened at once. That's the part worth understanding if you live inside these gates, because the order things got built in tells you more about what's coming than any single announcement does.
The Club You Might Remember
If you bought your home in Encantada before 2021, the clubhouse you toured probably had 16 Har-Tru tennis courts, a 20,000-square-foot fitness center, and not much else beyond the golf course and the dining room. That was the club under member ownership, before a 90-percent-plus vote of equity members handed the property to Heritage Golf Group that September. The golf course itself dates to 1982, designed by Robert Cupp and Jay Morrish under the old Golforce banner, and for decades the amenities around it barely changed.
What Heritage inherited was solid but dated. What they've built since is a sequence, and each step depended on the one before it.
The Order Things Actually Happened In
Here's the timeline, reconstructed from what the club and outside trade press have documented as each phase opened:
- Early 2023: renovation of the men's and ladies' card rooms, with new tables, carpeting, and window treatments, alongside the first pickleball courts nearing completion.
- Spring 2024: the covered outdoor patio and bar, described at the time as a seven-figure investment on its own, complete with firepits and media screens overlooking the course.
- Fall 2025: four new LED-lit padel courts, plus a renovated grand ballroom that now holds up to 300 guests and a refreshed main lobby.
By the time that November 2025 phase wrapped, Heritage had put more than $5.75 million into the property since taking over, according to the club's own public statements. That figure isn't one ribbon-cutting. It's four years of compounding investment, each addition timed to a season, each one building traffic and habit before the next one arrived.
The Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Heritage, Shari Givens, put it this way when the ballroom and padel courts debuted:
"We're redefining what the private club experience can be."
General Manager Phil Wiese has made a similar point on the record, framing the club as still evolving rather than finished.
Padel Didn't Show Up by Accident, and It Won't Be the Last of Its Kind
If you've wondered why padel specifically, and why now, the answer isn't unique to Boca Pointe. Heritage Golf Group now operates close to 50 golf and lifestyle clubs across 14 states, and the same formula is showing up elsewhere in its portfolio on almost the same timeline. At TPC Prestancia in Sarasota, which Heritage merged into its network in mid-2025, the company is currently running a renovation that adds tennis, bocce, pickleball, and padel courts alongside a fully renovated clubhouse, restaurant, and bar, all under one multi-million-dollar plan.
That's useful context if you live in Encantada and want a read on what's likely next at your own club. Heritage's pattern isn't a single splashy project per property. It's a repeatable sequence: dining and social space first, racquet sports next, then a bigger swing at the ballroom or lobby once the smaller wins have built member buy-in. If that pattern holds at Boca Pointe the way it's holding at Prestancia, the next phase is more likely to touch the golf course or fitness center than to be another one-off amenity.
What the Timeline Means If You Actually Live Here
A few practical things fall out of this history that are worth knowing if you're inside the gates, whether or not you're a club member yet.
Membership at Boca Pointe has never been mandatory the way it is at some other Boca Raton country club communities. Trade coverage of the club has specifically noted that Boca Pointe is one of the few properties in the market where residents can join the club without it being bundled into their HOA, and where non-residents can join as well. That matters if you bought in Encantada and assumed the club was baked into your fees. It isn't, and it never has been.
The club has also built out a six-month seasonal membership, a structure that's rare within Heritage's own Florida holdings and one the company has specifically marketed toward snowbirds, particularly members relocating seasonally from the Northeast. If you have family who splits time between here and up north, or you're weighing whether a full annual membership makes sense for your own household, that seasonal option is worth asking about directly rather than assuming the standard membership is the only path in.
And if you've been putting off checking out the new patio because you pictured the club the way it looked when you moved in, that gap is now real. The dining side has been rebuilt around a covered patio, firepits, and a seasonal menu from the executive chef's team, with themed dinners and live music built into the regular calendar rather than treated as occasional events.
A Few Ways to See It for Yourself This Fall
If any of this changes how you think about the club at the center of your own neighborhood, a few starting points:
- Ask about a padel or pickleball clinic. The club has run introductory sessions for both since the courts opened, aimed at players who've never picked up either sport.
- Time a visit to the patio around sunset. The firepits and media screens were built specifically for that stretch of the evening overlooking the course.
- If you have out-of-town family staying six months or fewer, ask specifically about the seasonal membership structure rather than assuming full annual dues are the only option.
The clubhouse behind Encantada's gates isn't the same building it was when most current residents signed their closing documents. It got there in stages, each one deliberate, each one setting up the next. Knowing that order doesn't just explain what changed. It's a reasonable guide to what's likely to change next.
If you're weighing a move within Boca Pointe, curious what a home near the club is actually worth given everything that's changed around it, or just want a longer conversation about the neighborhood, Raihan Mustafa is always glad to talk it through. Let's Connect.
