Nevele Resort closes suddenly, no re-opening date announced.
The phone still rings and rings in a caller’s ear but the lack of any response even from an answering machine tells more, perhaps, than any operator or voice machine could about the trouble facing a famous resort.
The venerable Nevele Grande Resort and Country Club is facing perhaps its most difficult challenge ever, after suddenly closing its doors last month with no date set for reopening what was once one of the premier destinations for visitors coming to the Catskills.
“They’ve had real problems down there,” said town of Wawarsing Supervisor Edward Jennings. “It’s all financial. They ran out of oil in the winter, had no hot water and now they’ve let the golf course get overgrown. And that’s a real shame; it’s a real investment to maintain that. If they let it go too far, they might lose it completely.”
“I hope someone is waiting in the wings to gobble it up,” said Jennings. The property has been publicly for sale since March 2008.
“It was not a surprise that it shut down,” said Dr. Mark Craft, president of the Wawarsing Ellenville Chamber of Commerce. “The only surprise was it held on as long as it did. They had a very difficult time running and managing that business the last few years.”
He said that businesses of all sorts depend on repeat business “And when someone comes and there is no hot water, they are not coming back.”
Located outside Ellenville the Nevele Grande has 432 rooms on roughly 1000 acres of recreational land, a highly regarded golf course, tennis, indoor and outdoor pools, meeting space and fitness centers.
It was most recently purchased in 2000 by New Jersey-based Stratford Business Corp.
But the future now is uncertain.
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