Bird Key, a 510-home enclave just off the Ringling Causeway, has canal-front and bayfront homes with manicured lawns and dramatic city skyline view. Also originally owned by John Ringling, the key was the Arvida Corporation’s first big Sarasota development in the early 1960s. Bird Key is a boater’s dream, and the Bird Key Yacht Club is the hub of social life here. A mix of executives, physicians, recently retired baby boomers, at least one rock’n’roll superstar and a controversial national talk-show host live here, but we’re not naming names.
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