November 26, 2004 04:58 PM
Most Expensive Gated Communities In America 2004
Excerpt: he most basic service a gated community provides is a barrier to non-residents. But some offer access to golf clubs and private beaches, or general managers who can tend to plants and appliances while owners are absent. One on our list of the most expensive in the country has security patrols on the water to keep watch on multi-million-dollar yachts. Others have polo grounds and picnics with all the right people.
As long as there have been rich people, there have been gates to keep everyone else out.
Many think Tuxedo Park, just north of New York, was the first gated community in America, but businessman Llewellyn Solomon Haskell designed Llewellyn Park in Eagle Ridge, N.J., in the mid-19th century, about 30 years earlier. He sparked a trend that continues to thrive well into present day.
Many of the country's richest people pay tens of millions of dollars to reside in estate neighborhoods with guarded entrances. Since gates block out gawkers and stalkers, they are popular among entertainment and sports celebrities, including golfer Tiger Woods, who lives in Orlando's Isleworth, and actor/director Ron Howard, who resides in Greenwich's Conyers Farm. Top executives can benefit as well, as Steve Burd, chief executive of Safeway (nyse: SWY - news - people ) discovered early this year when labor protesters were stopped at the entrance to his neighborhood in Southern California. Other residents simply like the privacy and the lack of traffic.
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