What's New Near The Ridges Summerlin in 2026

Drive past the old Bear's Best clubhouse in The Ridges these days and you'll see chain-link fencing, stalled earthmovers, and a fairway going quietly to seed. The Jack Nicklaus-designed course closed in June 2025, and as of this August it has now sat dark for more than fourteen months while its new owner works through a $300 million rebuild. That's a long stretch for a neighborhood built around a golf course to go without one.

And yet ask anyone who actually lives in The Ridges what their Tuesday night looks like, and golf rarely comes up. What comes up is a reservation at a restaurant that opened this year, a Saturday morning at a farmers market that's been running since May, or a Tuesday evening class on The Lawn. The course going quiet didn't create a gap in daily life here. It exposed one that was already filled by something else.

The Clubhouse That Isn't There Yet

Mulligan Holdings bought the former Bear's Best for $30.5 million in 2024 with plans to turn it into Amara Golf Club, a private course with a new clubhouse, on-site restaurants, and fifteen luxury villas. It's a serious investment, and when it opens it will likely become one of the more talked-about private amenities in Summerlin. But no reopening date has been announced, and a project of this scale, spanning a full course redesign plus new construction, doesn't move on a predictable clock.

For residents, that means the community's single largest recreational asset has been offline for over a year with no firm return date in sight. If The Ridges' daily rhythm actually depended on that course, this would be a rough stretch. It hasn't been, because the course was never doing the heavy lifting people assume it was.

Tuesday Night Moved Eight Minutes Down the Road

Downtown Summerlin sits roughly eight minutes from the guard gate, and 2026 has been a genuinely active year for what opened there. JING brought in Executive Chef Joseph Elevado, who spent nine years working under Nobu Matsuhisa in New York before taking over a kitchen built around sushi, steaks, and seafood towers, with happy hour running daily from 4 to 6 p.m. and the room shifting into a livelier, DJ-driven scene as the night goes on.

A short walk away, Marufuku Ramen opened its Downtown Summerlin location earlier this year, bringing Hakata-style tonkotsu ramen built on a broth simmered for more than fourteen hours. And at The Resort at Summerlin, two Southern California imports arrived within days of each other: Tacos 1986, the Los Angeles taco stand known since 2018 for hand-made corn tortillas, opened with a mariachi band and free tacos for the first 100 guests on March 17, and For The Win followed two days later with a free burger for the first 500 guests through the door, according to Fox5 Las Vegas.

None of that required a functioning golf course next door. It required a kitchen, a lease, and a neighborhood already primed to show up.

Tivoli Village Quietly Leveled Up Too

A few minutes south, Tivoli Village has had its own year. Al Solito Posto, Chef James Trees' Italian restaurant, picked up a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence in 2026, the kind of recognition that tends to fill a dining room on a random Wednesday. And according to a city permit reported by WhatNow Las Vegas, Yu By Sijie, the sister concept to Chinatown's well-known Special Noodle, is expected to open at Tivoli Village this summer, bringing Chinese-fusion cooking, handmade baos, and wok-fried dishes to a shopping center that already leans heavily on chef-driven concepts.

Here's a snapshot of what's landed near The Ridges since the golf course went dark:

That's five new dining options within a short drive, arriving in the exact window the neighborhood's own clubhouse has been boarded up.

The Calendar That Never Needed a Golf Course

Downtown Summerlin's programming didn't pause either. A few things worth knowing if you're mapping out the rest of the summer:

• The farmers market at The Pavilion runs Saturday mornings through November, with produce, baked goods, and flowers from regional growers.
• Fitness on The Lawn continues every Tuesday through September 30, with a rotating lineup of free classes. This August's schedule runs Pure Barre on August 11, NIKE on August 18, and Fit4Mom on August 25.
• Las Vegas Aviators games at Las Vegas Ballpark continue through September 21, giving residents a walkable Triple-A baseball option most weeks of late summer.
• The Summerlin Festival of Arts marks its 30th year this October, with a three-day run from October 9 through 11 featuring more than 100 juried fine artists on The Lawn.

None of this is new because the golf course closed. It's just easier to notice how much of it there already was once the course stopped being the assumed center of gravity.

What Club Ridges Was Already Built For

It's worth separating two things that get conflated. Amara Golf Club is the public-facing course. Club Ridges is the residents-only amenity inside the gates, with a pool, tennis courts, a fitness center, and a community center that residents access through their HOA dues rather than a golf membership. That private club never closed. It was never tied to Bear's Best in the first place.

The Ridges also sits next to TPC Summerlin, the course that hosts the PGA Tour's Shriners Children's Open, and near Red Rock Country Club's two Arnold Palmer-designed courses. Residents who wanted golf during the closure had options nearby. Most of the neighborhood's day-to-day recreation, though, was already happening at Club Ridges or a few minutes away in Downtown Summerlin, independent of whichever course happened to be operating.

When Amara Finally Opens, It Adds a Page, Not a New Book

When Amara Golf Club does open, with its new clubhouse, restaurants, and villas, it will be a genuine addition to the neighborhood. A rebuilt private course with on-site dining is not a small thing, and it will likely become the kind of amenity that gets mentioned first when people describe The Ridges.

But the fourteen months without it are the more interesting story right now. They show a neighborhood whose actual rhythm, the dinners, the Saturday mornings, the Tuesday evenings, was never as dependent on that single amenity as its marketing might suggest. Downtown Summerlin and Tivoli Village did that work in 2026, restaurant by restaurant, event by event, while the fairways sat quiet. Whatever Amara becomes, it's arriving into a calendar that was already full.

If you're curious about how The Ridges or nearby Summerlin neighborhoods fit your own routine, or you'd simply like a second opinion on what a property here is worth in today's market, Las Vegas Realty Specialists is happy to talk it through. Reach out anytime for a Free Home Valuation, no pressure, just a straight answer.