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The Peninsula Resort and Private Airport, Bolivar, Texas

The Peninsula Resort and Private Airport, Bolivar, Texas

Massive beach resort and private airport coming to Texas coast near Houston

The development also includes The Zoo Bar & Grill, a 41,000-square-foot beachfront icehouse/sports bar and grill with full-service dining and entertainment decks. Massive beach resort and private airport coming to Texas coast near Houston

Author: Jaime E. Galvan

Published: 10:48 AM CDT March 22, 2023

Updated: 12:43 PM CDT March 25, 2023

BOLIVAR PENINSULA, Texas — An investment group is looking to change the face of Bolivar Peninsula with a 110-acre, multiphase beachfront development that includes a hotel and beach resort, and a private airport.

The Bolivar Investment Group has unveiled a multiphase plan for a beachfront development in Crystal Beach coming in the summer of 2024.

According to developers, The Peninsula Beach Club and Resort are described as the “crown jewels” of the plan. They feature a private guest clubhouse with twin Olympic pools and cabanas, a bar & grill, and a large event floor with wrap-around shade porches. There will also be a spa and restaurant.

Their plan also includes a private FAA-approved full-service airport just minutes away from the resort itself.

Credit: David Muir, The Peninsula Beach Resort

An investment group is looking to change the face of Bolivar Peninsula with a 110-acre, multiphase beachfront development that includes a hotel and beach resort, and a private airport. This September will mark 15 years since Hurricane Ike leveled Bolivar Peninsula and efforts to rebuild the coastline are still underway.

"New homes, most of the homes are worth a lot more than they used to be, some of the homes are worth $1 to 2 million," said Bolivar Investment Group Head of Marketing Mike Wiglesworth. Now Wiglesworth and his group are set to build a unique resort to serve daily, weekly, and long-term rentals.

"We think it will be very successful," Wiglesworth said. 

Here is a breakdown of the other aspects of the development: The Zoo Beachbar & Grill

Credit: David Muir, The Peninsula Beach Resort

The Zoo is a 41,000-square-foot beachfront icehouse/sports bar and grill with full-service dining and entertainment decks.

The Zoo is a 41,000-square-foot beachfront icehouse/sports bar and grill with full-service dining and entertainment decks.

Developers said The Zoo will feature multitudes of big-screen TVs and views overlooking championship beach volleyball and pickleball courts along with other recreational sports.

The Peninsula Resort Cottages

Credit: David Muir, The Peninsula Beach Resort

The Peninsula Resort Cottages is a private beach resort comprised of one-, two- and four-bedroom studio cottages on the water with access to the guest clubhouse, Veranda Bar & Grill and swim club, pickle ball courts, recreational lake, beach cart trails and more.

The Peninsula Resort Cottages is a private beach resort comprised of one-, two- and four-bedroom studio cottages on the water with access to the guest clubhouse, Veranda Bar & Grill and swim club, pickle ball courts, recreational lake, beach cart trails and more.

These units can accommodate from two to 24 overnight guests. They are available for daily or weekly rental with housekeeping services.

Credit: David Muir, The Peninsula Beach Resort

According to developers, The Peninsula Beach Club and Resort are described as the “crown jewels” of the plan. They feature a private guest clubhouse with twin Olympic pools and cabanas, a bar & grill, and a large event floor with wrap-around shade porches. There will also be a spa and restaurant.

The Peninsula RV Enclave Resort

Credit: David Muir, The Peninsula Beach Resort

The Peninsula RV Enclave Resort features 50 RV sites with overhead cabins including a kitchen, bathroom, fireplace, and inside/outside entertainment areas with spacious roadways for easy in/out access.

The Peninsula RV Enclave Resort features 50 RV sites with overhead cabins including a kitchen, bathroom, fireplace, and inside/outside entertainment areas with spacious roadways for easy in/out access.

Developers said the park will cater primarily to adults. Also, there will be a dog park, washer/dryer stations, convenience store, golf cart rentals, nature trails, picnic pavilions, and barbecue pits. The Peninsula Resort Villas

Credit: David Muir, The Peninsula Beach Resort

The Peninsula Resort Villas are 90 two- and four-bedroom beach houses up for sale. Developers said the villas feature large entertainment decks, spacious open-truss living areas, hardwood wide plank floors, large open living/dining areas, an entertainment kitchen island with sink, and under-counter wine storage.

The Peninsula Resort Villas are 90 two- and four-bedroom beach houses up for sale. Developers said the villas feature large entertainment decks, spacious open-truss living areas, hardwood wide plank floors, large open living/dining areas, an entertainment kitchen island with sink, and under-counter wine storage. 

They added that the homes are elevated and engineered to withstand hurricane-force winds.

The Peninsula Resort Condo Towers

The Peninsula Resort Condo Towers is an exclusive, seaside community that will consist of 160 units of one-, two- and three-bedroom beachfront condominiums located in five towers.

Developers said they will feature large extended beachfront decks elevated for ocean views. The condos will have elevators, guest parking, and storage on private access driveways.

These units will be placed into a centralized reservation system managed by the developers for the owners to opt-in for leasing.

Merchants' Row

Credit: David Muir, The Peninsula Beach Resort

Merchants' Row is a group of storefronts and retail spaces along Highway 87 fast food/ takeout, beach clothing, specialty, and convenience stores.

Merchants' Row is a group of storefronts and retail spaces along Highway 87 fast food/ takeout, beach clothing, specialty, and convenience stores.

Slideshow: Beach resort, private airport planned for Bolivar Peninsula, Texas

David Muir, The Peninsula Beach Resort

An investment group is looking to change the face of Bolivar Peninsula with a 110-acre, multiphase beachfront development that includes a hotel and beach resort, and a private airport. 


Bolivar The Peninsula Resort and Private Airport

https://bolivarinvestmentgroup.com/about-us

Bolivar Beach Peninsula Resort


Bolivar The Zoo Beachfront Bar Grill

Bolivar Beach Club and Resort

Bolivar Peninsula Resort Cottages

Bolivar Peninsula Resort RV Park

Bolivar Peninsula Resort Villas

Bolivar Merchants Row


The Bolivar Peninsula Resorts Dog Park

PHASE 2 Bolivar Beachside RV Resort – Bolivar’s newest and most exclusive, 5 Star-Rated, 200 unit luxury RV Resort Park that will cater to adults and families.   It will accommodate RV’s with extra-large EZ drive-thru parking pads, surrounded by water features and ponds for kayaking and fishing, as well as a dog park, washer/dryer stations, C-store, Golf Cart rentals, nature trails, BBQ pits, and much more!


The Bolivar Peninsula Fly-In and Resort Airport


Wow, massive! 

the crowds? 

private airport, planes flying in and out, noise, who gets to use the airport? 

the State will not be able to buy enough Ferry's to get the people over to Bolivar.

Screw the environmental/birding/fishing grounds I suppose, birding habitats, fishing grounds, much less the people that have called it home all their lives. wonder what the environmental impact from all this will be?

Port Bolivar, Crystal Beach, surrounding areas will never be the same imo, they just thought Hurricane Ike was bad. 

Trying to fish East Bay after this will be a nightmare, from all the added pressure.

I can see it now, Hanna's and Deep Reefs, Siever's cut/flats, Goat Island, Pepper Pt., Fat Rat Pass, Long Pt., Marsh Pt., Mussel Pt., Frozen Pt., all the way to the shores of far East Bay, back around and up through Windmills, Moody's Reef, Whitehead Reef, all the back up to Smith Point on the other side, will be nothing but boats and recreation, with the closer of Rollover Pass, this big sprawling playland for the rich, now you can kiss all that good-by, as we knew it, imo. with that much boat/fishing pressure and the recreation from all of the above, added to East Bay, that fishing resort will quickly go downhill, imo.

WTF were they thinking (Commissioners)$, sure was not the folks that had been living their all of their lives.

They call it progress. 

what's happening to _our_ beaches anyway?

Mayes Middleton SB 434


In Texas, public access to Gulf Coast beaches is not just the law, it is a constitutional right.

Walking along the beach in Texas has been a privilege since Texas was a Republic, and the Texas Land Commissioner protects this public right for all Texans by enforcing the Texas Open Beaches Act.

Under the Texas Open Beaches Act the public has the free and unrestricted right to access Texas beaches, which are located on what is commonly referred to as the "wet beach," from the water to the line of mean high tide. The dry sandy area that extends from the "wet beach” to the natural line of vegetation is usually privately owned but may be subject to the public beach easement. The line of vegetation may shift due to wind, and wave and tidal actions caused by storms and hurricanes.


“If SB 434 passes, don’t be surprised if you show up at your favorite beach spot and you’re confronted with a fenced-off beach or ‘no trespassing’ signs,” former state land commissioners David Dewhurst, Garry Mauro and Jerry Patterson wrote in an op-ed. “The only remedy available to you then would be a suit against the adjacent upland landowner. But who wants to bring their lawyer on a trip to the beach?”


State Sen. Mayes Middleton once again has altered a beach bill opponents worried would erode rights afforded by the Open Beaches Act, this time removing language that had inspired intense objection.

Middleton called The Daily News on Wednesday to answer questions about the third presentation of what originally was Senate Bill 434. That bill worried beach advocates and motivated three former Texas Land Office commissioners to pen an opinion piece opposing it, leading Middleton to withdraw SB-434 and go back to the drawing board.

He filed SB-2550 March 10, inspiring more objection, although directed mostly at a single paragraph Middleton now has removed.


Mayes Middleton SB 2550



it's really sad what they have done, and are doing to our beach's, pay per view, and we can't even go to Murdoch's anymore, without opening up an account with the city to pay for parking, can't just put a dollar or two in the meter anymore. very sad. we just don't go anymore, not even to the Strand, and we use to love to go down there and shop and visit. not anymore. but that's just us. i have heard that the West end of Galveston, down by the Pass, it's bad there too, and getting worse. we still have our memories though, they have not started charging us for that...yet.

Terry S. Singeltary Sr.

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