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Bluegreen Corporation Added to Russell 3000 Index

Press Release: Bluegreen Corporation
July 1, 2004
BOCA RATON, FL -- Bluegreen Corporation (NYSE: BXG), a leading U.S. developer and marketer of drive-to vacation ownership resorts ("Bluegreen Resorts") and planned residential and golf communities ("Bluegreen Communities"), yesterday announced that it was included in the Russell 3000® Index when the broad-market index was reconstituted on June 25, 2004, according to a list of additions issued by Russell Investment Group. Membership in the Russell 3000 means automatic inclusion in either the large-cap Russell 1000® Index or small-cap Russell 2000® Index.

George F. Donovan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bluegreen, commented, "We believe that Bluegreen's inclusion in the Russell 3000 Index should enhance our visibility among investors."

Membership in Russell's 21 U.S. equity indexes is determined primarily by market capitalization rankings and style attributes. Russell indexes are widely used by managers for index funds and as benchmarks for both passive and active investment strategies. More than $360 billion is invested in index funds based on Russell's indexes and an additional $850 billion is benchmarked to them. Investment managers who oversee these funds purchase shares of member stocks according to that company's weighting in the particular index.

Annual reconstitution of the Russell indexes captures the 3,000 largest U.S. stocks as of the end of May, ranking them by total market capitalization to create the Russell 3000. The largest 1,000 companies in the ranking comprise the Russell 1000 Index while the remaining 2,000 companies become the widely used Russell 2000 Index.

Bluegreen is one of the leading companies engaged in the acquisition, development, marketing and sale of vacation ownership resorts and residential homesites. Bluegreen Resorts are located in a variety of popular vacation destinations, including: Marathon, Florida; Orlando, Florida; Ormond Beach, Florida; St. Augustine, Florida; Surfside, Florida; the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin; Gordonsville, Virginia; Hershey, Pennsylvania; Branson, Missouri; Ridgedale, Missouri; Boyne Falls, Michigan; and Aruba, while its Bluegreen Communities operations are predominantly located in the Southeastern and Southwestern United States.

Russell, a global leader in multi-manager investment services, provides investment products and services in more than 35 countries. Russell manages more than $107 billion in assets and advises clients worldwide representing $1.8 trillion. Founded in 1936, Russell is a subsidiary of Northwestern Mutual and is headquartered in Tacoma, Wash., with additional offices in New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Singapore, Sydney, Auckland and Tokyo. For more information, go to www.russell.com. (Information in this press release regarding Russell and the Russell Indexes was provided by Russell.)

This press release contains forward-looking statements and the Company desires to take advantage of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 in connection with these statements. Statements contained herein are not statements of historical fact may be deemed forward-looking statements. The words "believe," "expect," "intend," "anticipate," "project," "may," "should," "designed to," "estimate," "hope," "plan" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date the statement was made. The Company does not undertake and specifically disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted or quantified and many of which are beyond the Company's control. Future events could differ materially from those set forth in, contemplated by, or underlying such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties to which forward-looking statements are subject to include, but are not limited to, the following: that membership in the Russell 3000 Index will enhance the visibility of the Company to investors or that the Company will remain on the Russell 3000 Index, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Form 10-K filed on March 29, 2004 and its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on May 17, 2004.

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Contact: 
     Bluegreen Corporation
     John Chiste, 561-912-8010
     john.chiste@bxgcorp.com
      or
     Investor Relations
     The Equity Group Inc.
     Devin Sullivan, 212-836-9608
     dsullivan@equityny.com
      or
     Adam Prior, 212-836-9606
     aprior@equityny.com

Source: Bluegreen Corporation