"First and foremost we wanted to protect our community and this development from suffering a similar fate as Badlands," Andrew Pascal told the Las Vegas Review-Journal after he and Mike Mixer paid $30.5 million for Bear's Best Las Vegas in 2024. It was a pointed thing to say. The Badlands fight, a yearslong legal battle over a shuttered golf course that a developer tried to turn into housing, cost everyone involved millions and left a scar on how Summerlin homeowners think about golf land. Pascal and Mixer, both Ridges residents themselves, were not just buying a golf course. They were buying the thing that sits at the center of three of the community's smallest, most private enclaves.
That course is now called Amara Golf Club, and its rebuild is the single biggest thing happening inside The Ridges right now. But here is what gets lost when people talk about "The Ridges" as one market: Arrowhead, Indigo, and Rimrock together hold just 72 homes, and those 72 homes split cleanly into two groups with almost nothing in common except a shared guard gate. Two of the three enclaves are staking their value on a private club that does not fully exist yet. The third has nothing to do with golf at all.
Seventy-two homes, two different value stories
Arrowhead has 23 custom-built homes on roughly acre lots, positioned against the Spring Mountains and directly adjacent to the golf corridor. Indigo has 28 single-story homesites, ranging from about half an acre to nearly a full acre, also built around that same corridor with views that include the golf course, the Strip, and the surrounding mountains. Rimrock has 21 homes, built out between 2005 and 2009, ranging from roughly 5,000 to over 11,000 square feet, positioned instead for Red Rock Canyon and Strip views off Marble Ridge Drive.
| Enclave | Homes | Typical lot | What it faces |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arrowhead | 23 | ~1 acre | Spring Mountains and the golf corridor |
| Indigo | 28 | 0.51 to 0.85 acre | Golf course, Strip, and mountains |
| Rimrock | 21 | Homes 5,000 to 11,000+ sq ft | Red Rock Canyon and the Strip |
Look at that table and the split is obvious once you know what to look for. Arrowhead and Indigo back onto the same piece of ground that Pascal and Mixer's company is spending $300 million to rebuild. Rimrock does not touch it at all. A buyer comparing these three on price alone, without asking which side of that line a specific lot sits on, is comparing two different asset classes and calling them the same neighborhood.
The clock Arrowhead and Indigo are running against
Bear's Best closed to public play in the summer of 2025. Redevelopment began that September, with Pascal and Mixer working with Jackson Kahn Design on the course itself and targeting a reopening as a private club around October 2026. Fifteen club villas are planned to follow, with completion targeted for the end of 2027.
That timeline matters for one reason: it is a specific, dated event, not a vague amenity promise. A buyer closing on an Arrowhead or Indigo home in September 2026 is closing roughly a month before the private club is supposed to reopen its doors, and more than a year before the villa phase wraps. Anyone pricing golf-corridor proximity into an offer today is effectively buying ahead of a calendar, not ahead of a finished product.
That calendar also comes with a gate of its own. According to Amara's own materials, membership is capped at 250, with 15 additional memberships reserved specifically for the club's villa owners, and the entry fee sits at $250,000, rising in tiers every 50 members. Buyers put down half upfront, with the remainder due once the course itself is complete. None of that is automatic for a homeowner in Arrowhead or Indigo. Living next to the golf corridor and holding a membership to play it are two separate transactions, priced and gated on their own terms.
That is the friction most comparison guides skip past. Adjacency to Amara is a view asset and a prestige signal. It is not a punch card to the clubhouse.
What Rimrock was already selling before any of this started
Rimrock does not have this problem, because it never depended on the golf course to begin with. Its 21 homes were built between 2005 and 2009 on the opposite side of the community, oriented toward Red Rock Canyon and the Las Vegas Strip rather than any fairway. That orientation is fixed. It does not improve when a clubhouse opens in October 2026, and it would not have been dented if the redevelopment had stalled or the ownership group had walked away, the way Badlands' developer eventually did.
That is not a knock on Arrowhead or Indigo. A finished Amara, with a Jack Nicklaus-and-Jackson-Kahn-designed course and a members-only clubhouse behind it, is a real amenity and a real value driver once it opens. But it is a value driver with a construction schedule attached, and construction schedules move. Rimrock's pitch never had that variable in it. Its value case was set the day the last of its 21 homes was finished, and it has been the same case every year since.
Proximity is not the same as access
If you are weighing these three enclaves against each other, the question worth asking is not "which one is closer to the golf course." It is "what am I actually paying for, and does it depend on something that has not happened yet."
For Arrowhead and Indigo, part of the answer is tied to Amara's private reopening and the villa phase that follows it. That is not a bad bet. Pascal and Mixer are Ridges residents themselves, and their public rationale, protecting the community from a Badlands-style outcome, suggests they are building for the long term rather than flipping the land. But it is a bet with a date on it, and a separate membership cost sitting in front of any club access, regardless of which house you own.
For Rimrock, the answer has nothing to do with any of that. You are paying for a fixed view corridor that was finished nearly two decades ago and has not needed a redevelopment announcement to hold its value since.
Knowing which of those two stories applies to a specific lot, before you write an offer or price a listing, is the difference between comparing homes correctly and comparing them by zip code.
A short FAQ
Is Bear's Best still open for public play? No. It closed to the public in the summer of 2025 as part of the transition to Amara Golf Club, which is targeting a private reopening around October 2026.
Does living in Arrowhead or Indigo come with automatic access to Amara? No. Membership is separate, limited to 250 members plus 15 reserved for villa owners, and carries its own fee structure. Proximity to the course is not the same as a membership.
Does Rimrock have any golf course frontage? No. Rimrock faces Red Rock Canyon and the Strip, not the golf corridor, so the Amara timeline has no bearing on its value the way it does for Arrowhead and Indigo.
Seventy-two homes, three gates, and two entirely different reasons to buy. If you are weighing a purchase or a sale in Arrowhead, Indigo, or Rimrock and want to know which side of that line your specific lot actually sits on, Brady Luxury Homes has walked these enclaves enough times to tell you before you write the offer. Work With Us.
