Grand Bay is one of the condominium neighborhoods at the gated Bay Isles community of Longboat Key Club-Harbourside. This bayfront condo complex was built from 1994 to 1999 on the tailend of developments in Longboat Key that started as early as the 1960s.
The condos for sale in Grand Bay came as a fitting finale to the residential developments in this bayside area now boasting of 22 subdivisions likewise featuring single family homes, villas and townhouses. Located in a charming 24-acre waterfront site, this condominium sits adjacent to Bishop’s Point, a cape situated between Whale Key and Quick Pointin Sarasota Bay.
Grand Bay, developed with its own guard gate, has six upscale condo towers basking amid an attractive landscaping of bougainvillea and royal palms. A serene lagoon and lush greenbelt serve as a buffer and boundary of the complex from its neighbors.
Grand Bay was developed precisely to offer a high-end island resort lifestyle with a slew of impressive amenities comparable with other luxury Longboat Key condos for sale. Its complex flaunts a large clubhouse convertible into three separate rooms for activities and events. Its lower level has a catering kitchen while a cutting-edge fitness center with a sauna and changing rooms is located upstairs. The property also has a pair of swimming pools as well as two tennis courts.
Additionally, deals on Grand Bay condos for sale come bundled with membership at the Bay Isles Beach Club. This three-acre private beach club is located at the gulf front of the key, and its facilities are for the exclusive use of Bay Isles residents. These include cabanas, picnic tables, barbecue pits, and volleyball nets. Access from Bay Isles on foot to this beach is convenient via a pedestrian underpass across Gulf of Mexico Drive.
Other resort attractions are available to Grand Bay residents with a membership at the Longboat Key Club which has premier tennis and golf facilities, plus a clubhouse with several fine restaurants. The Longboat Key Moorings, one of the largest resort marinas on the Florida west coast, is likewise accessible to condo owners with an appropriate resort club membership.
Seafaring or not, residents of Grand Bay all enjoy spectacular water views. Each of the six buildings in their complex was designed with expansive balconies with exposures to Sarasota Bay towards east and the Gulf of Mexico towards west. The nine-foot ceilings and large picture windows of Grand Bay condos for sale add up to bringing the wonderful bayside and coastal setting into the units.
With an aggregate of 272 condo units, Grand Bay offers a rich mix of Longboat Key condos for sale. The property’s four taller towers have six units per floor, providing choices on residences with floor areas ranging from 2,250 to 2,925 square feet. These high-rises also each have two penthouses having floor plans of 4,413 square feet. Many of these larger condos fetch prices in the million-dollar range, but the two smaller buildings in the complex house a number of condos with living areas of 1,200 to 1,300 square feet which could be sales-listed in the $500s and the $600s.
Besides their superior features and wide range of choices, Grand Bay condos for sale excite prospective buyers with their proximity to the many life and leisure centers in the Suncoast. For instance, the shopping plaza at the Avenue of the Flowers just next to the gate of the Bay Isle communities is but a preface in booking more lifestyle delights in St. Armands Circle and downtown Sarasota.
Below are all of the current real estate listings available for sale at Grand Bay.
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