Is The Colony the Same Community as Pelican Landing in Bonita Springs?

Related, not identical. The Colony at Pelican Landing is a private, gated enclave built inside the larger Pelican Landing community in Bonita Springs, at 23505 Tuscany Way. I am Kris Asquith, Broker Associate at Premiere Plus Realty, working across nine Southwest Florida markets including Bonita Springs, and this is one of the first things worth untangling for anyone shopping either name, because the two show up side by side in listings and get treated as interchangeable when they are actually two layers of the same address.

Buying into The Colony means buying into a community that sits inside another community, and that structure carries real consequences for fees, amenities and who governs what. None of it is complicated once it is laid out, but almost nobody lays it out before a buyer is already touring homes.

Pelican Landing is one of Bonita Springs' established gated club communities, sitting on bay water with a golf course as part of its amenity base. It is the larger, master-level community, the one whose name governs the address and whose association sets the baseline rules that apply across the whole property. Most of what a buyer pictures when they hear "Pelican Landing" (the gatehouse, the golf, the overall footprint) belongs to this master level rather than to any one enclave inside it.

Within a community built at this scale, it is common for a builder or developer to carve out smaller, separately gated sections with their own identity, their own architectural standards and sometimes their own additional amenities. The Colony is that kind of section here.

The Colony at Pelican Landing sits at 23505 Tuscany Way in Bonita Springs. Like the larger community around it, it is gated and carries bay water and golf as recorded attributes, but it operates as its own enclave rather than as an undifferentiated section of the master community. That is what the double name is actually communicating: The Colony is the specific neighborhood, and Pelican Landing is the larger address it sits within.

A buyer touring homes here should expect two gates rather than one in a lot of cases, a master entrance into Pelican Landing and a second, separate entrance into The Colony itself, along with two sets of governing paperwork rather than a single association's rulebook.

This is the question to confirm directly rather than assume either way, and it is exactly the kind of detail that gets skipped when a buyer treats "The Colony at Pelican Landing" as one name instead of two. In a layered community like this, some amenities are typically run at the master level and shared across every enclave, while others can be reserved for one enclave's own membership. Ask which category the golf course, the clubhouse and any beach or marina privileges actually fall into for The Colony specifically, and get the answer in writing rather than from whichever agent is showing the home that day.

The same question applies in reverse if you are looking at homes elsewhere in Pelican Landing's wider footprint outside The Colony: confirm whether The Colony's own amenities, if any, are actually open to you, or reserved for its own residents.

It can, and this is worth budgeting for correctly rather than discovering at closing. A private enclave built inside a larger master community commonly carries its own association dues on top of whatever the master association at Pelican Landing already charges, covering the enclave's own gate, its own common areas and any amenities specific to it. Whether that is actually the structure at The Colony, and what each layer covers, is a question for the current governing documents and the most recent budget for both associations, not for a general assumption based on how other layered communities in the area are set up.

Request both sets of documents side by side before you get attached to a specific address, the master Pelican Landing association's declaration and budget, and The Colony's own, and read them as two separate obligations rather than one combined number.

The Colony is not the only place in Bonita Springs' gated communities where a smaller, separately named section sits inside a larger master community, and it will not be the last one a buyer runs into while comparing options along the bay. Whenever a listing carries a name that reads as two communities stacked together, treat it as a prompt to ask the same set of questions: what is shared at the master level, what belongs only to the enclave, and what each layer actually costs. Doing that once, early, is far less work than untangling it after you already own the house.

If bay-water communities like this one are part of your search, I can pull the current documents for both layers on any specific address before you spend a weekend touring homes that turn out to carry a fee structure you were not expecting.

Settle your financing and representation first, which is where the home buying process actually begins, so you can move on a specific address once you understand exactly what you are buying into. Then request the governing documents and the most recent budget for both the master Pelican Landing association and The Colony's own, and read them together rather than treating one as a formality once you have already decided on the other.

If you are comparing The Colony against other gated sections of Pelican Landing, or against a different bay-water community in Bonita Springs entirely, tell me what you actually want out of the amenities and I will tell you which layer of which community delivers it. Get in touch or call (239) 300-1427.