Original Development Plan
For many years Edmond Lavann took his family to Palm Beach on Low Bay in Barbuda for Sunday picnics and weekends. In 1949 he planted the first palm trees and built a cinder block weekend home. His grandson, Mike Branker, remembers many happy days on what he always felt was the most beautiful beach in the world.
In 1998, Mr. Branker founded The Palm Beach Holding Company Limited and in 2001 obtained a lease with the government of Antigua and Barbuda and became one of the only entities allowed to lease land for the purpose of real estate development. By 2010, the Company had leased over 46 acres of pristine beachfront land from the Government of Antigua and Barbuda. This beachfront faces west with incredible sunsets over the most tranquil and clear stretch of the Caribbean you will ever see.
The Company knows that no developer, even with all the money in the world, can match what Mother Nature has already accomplished at Low Bay, Barbuda. The beach, the gentle breeze, the sky and the water are unmatched anywhere on earth. While just 26 miles from the international airport in Antigua, Low Bay has been lost in time and is virtually unspoiled by visitors. The Company set out to build with guidelines to make certain that the resort and the villas did not detract from, the natural beauty.
By 2007, the Company had constructed the Lighthouse Bay Resort and developed the infrastructure to accommodate Lighthouse Bay, including electrical generation, water desalinization, sewers and a nine-suite resort hotel and clubhouse on this island paradise. In 2007, the exclusive Lighthouse Bay Resort opened to the general public for business, but its primary purpose is to serve as an adjunct to the Lighthouse Bay Villas as a center of activity for the community. In 2017, as the Company was making 22 exclusive villa lots were available for lease, Hurricane Irma struck and wiped out the resort.