Russell Lands Announces Opening of New Lake Club on Lake Martin

LAKE MARTIN, AL (May 22, 2025) – Russell Lands has announced that the construction of the only multi-use waterfront lake club on Lake Martin has been completed. The new facility, The Benjamin Lake Club, is located in Russell Lands’ newest lakefront development, The Heritage. The Benjamin will be open for residents’ use this Memorial Day weekend.

The Benjamin is a $20,000,000 facility that provides a wide variety of amenities to The Heritage property owners. The facility will be centrally located within the community and will enjoy an elevated view of a beautiful and peaceful Lake Martin cove surrounded by Heritage residential properties.

The facility consists of a two-story clubhouse with meeting and event space, an owner’s bar, catering kitchen, expansive fitness center, aerobics/yoga room, and locker rooms. Adjacent to the clubhouse and fitness center is a resort-style pool complex with a large covered and uncovered pool deck, poolside snack bar, and lakeview terrace.

The Benjamin has extensive outdoor features including a beach, waterfront event space, and community docks. On the upland portion of the clubhouse property, there are additional event lawns, eight tennis courts, eight pickleball courts, and a racquet sports pro shop.

The Heritage, with its 1,500 acres and 12 miles of shoreline, will eventually provide approximately 250 waterfront and 150 water-access properties. “We are excited how The Benjamin Lake Club enhances the lifestyle and use of The Heritage,” said Russell Lands’ President, David Sturdivant. “The lake club allows property owners a beautiful place to spend quality recreational time with family, friends, and neighbors.”

The Heritage community is also the location of the Coore & Crenshaw-designed golf course. The course, which was recently recognized as Alabama’s highest-rated course by Golf Digest, is the central feature of the private Wicker Point Golf Club. The Coore & Crenshaw team is arguably the world’s most sought-after design team. The course is their first and only in Alabama.

The lake club, which is an exclusive amenity for The Heritage, is best in class as well. To ensure that quality, Atlanta-based architecture firm, Cooper Carry, was selected to design The Benjamin. Their team, led by Pope Bullock, has extensive experience designing resort-style amenities.

Brasfield & Gorrie was selected by Russell Lands to bring the Cooper Carry design to reality. Their construction team was the same team that built the Wicker Point Clubhouse, which earned an Excellence in Construction national award by the Associated Builders and Contractors. This award was awarded to Brasfield & Gorrie at the national award ceremony in Las Vegas.

Russell Lands has successfully created numerous esteemed waterfront communities on Lake Martin, such as Willow Point, The Ridge, and Trillium.  As those communities have matured and completed their sales cycles, it was time to create a new community. With thousands of acres of land and hundreds of miles of shoreline to choose from, Russell Lands decided to create a special community on a less-active portion of the 41,000-acre lake.

The Heritage development began in 2021, with the first phase of residential property released in 2022. Three additional phases have been added, and 113 homesites have sold to date. The much-anticipated Phase 4 is scheduled to be released this June.

Please visit RussellLands.com to stay up to date on all details regarding the next release of waterfront homesites.