Eagle Creek Golf Club Breaks Ground on Clubhouse

PRESS RELEASE June 6, 2003

PR Contact: Elaine Ingra,
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Eagle Creek Golf Club breaks ground on clubhouse

ORLANDO, FLORIDA (June 6, 2003) - Eagle Creek Golf Club held a ground breaking ceremony for its new 14,000 square foot, two level clubhouse in the new Eagle Creek community in south Orlando, Florida. The project's developer, Emerson International, Inc. was on hand along with the members of the club's management staff, project team and representatives from Whiting Turner Contracting Company, the general contractor.

The clubhouse features a pro shop, 120-seat restaurant with private banquet areas and locker rooms for men and women. The public, 18-hole PGA golf course and the clubhouse plan to open on December 1, 2003.

Emerson's architect, John Youngman, R.A., in association with Bock & Partners Architecture, designed the clubhouse in a vintage New England manor style with a European flair.

Eagle Creek Golf Club, which features Central Florida's first golf course and community Audubon Signature Course, is one of the newest in Orlando. The 18-hole, 7,097-yard course was designed by the renowned American design firm, Ron Garl Golf Course Architect in collaboration with Howard Swan of Swan Golf Designs Limited, a British golf architect, well known in the United Kingdom and throughout Europe.

Key course features are five sets of tees, extensive bulkheads around water hazards, over 90 white sand bunkers with waste bunkers up to ½-acre, bunker designs reminiscent of those found in Scotland and England, and numerous holes with greens protected by water and sand bunkers.

Gary Piotrowski, formally the general manager at Celebration Golf Club, has been brought on board to serve as Eagle Creek's general manager. The superintendent is Buck Buckner, formally with Isleworth Country Club.

The Eagle Creek Community, which surrounds Eagle Creek Golf Club, is a 1,240-acre community located near Lake Nona just east of Orlando International Airport. The project's developer, Eagle Creek Development Corp., a subsidiary of Emerson International, Inc., plans 2,950 residential units including single-family homes, townhouses, golf villas and apartments, all within walking distance of a park. According to Emerson International's president, Joe Pasqualetti, 20 acres have been donated to Orange County Public Schools for a community elementary school. Additionally, Eagle Creek is slated for 200,000 square feet of shops, restaurants and office space, a 150-room hotel, a golf institute and recreational facilities such as pools, parks, nature trails and conservation areas.
More than 600 home sites will be ready for sale in October of 2003.

EDITORS: MORE ON EMERSON INTERNATIONAL AND THE EMERSON GROUP
Emerson International, headquartered in Altamonte Springs, Florida, is the US headquarters of The Emerson Group. In addition to Eagle Creek, Emerson is currently developing CenterPointe On The Park in Altamonte Springs and Emerson Pointe in Orlando, Florida. For additional information about Emerson visit www.emerson-us.com.

The Emerson Group, founded 40-years ago, is headquartered in the United Kingdom. As one the largest development companies in the UK, Emerson Group has three primary operating divisions: Jones Homes, residential; Orbit Developments, commercial; and Emerson International for development outside the UK.
For additional information about The Emerson Group visit www.emerson.co.uk.

PHOTO AND RENDERING ENCLOSED
Photo Caption: Breaking ground at Eagle Creek Golf Club in Orlando, Florida are L. to R. Don Kidwell, Louis Rossi and Tanya Marsh all of Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, Gailyn Fisher, Ralph Ditson, John Youngman, R.A. from Emerson, Robert Thomas Bock, AIA, Bock & Partners Architecture, Gary Piotrowski, Eagle Creek Golf Club's general manager, from Emerson, president, Joe Pasqualetti, vice president of construction, Neil Kynaston and course superintendent, Buck Buckner.

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