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Nevele Resort closes suddenly, no re-opening date announced.

Jim Gordon

Jul-31-09, 12:33 PM

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Topics: Tourism

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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Sandy makes this comment

Tuesday, 04 August 2009

How awful. We took our family to the Nevele for almost 19 years - some years going several times. We knew all the staff and it always felt like home. This is very, very sad news indeed. The end of an era for certain.
Fred Koval makes this comment

Monday, 07 September 2009

My family and I went to the Nevele on vacation for over 15 years and it is sad to see it close. I'm not surprised though. The new management was surly and totally unresponsive to the needs of the guests and we haven't been back in three years.
Michael T makes this comment

Sunday, 13 September 2009

We spent our honeymoon there in 1967. It was pretty spectacular back then.Sadly it had fallen on bad times.The reviews in the last while were all very bad.
Jill makes this comment

Sunday, 27 September 2009

This is so sad. I regret that I never went the last few, despite the poor reviews. I grew up at the Nevele every August with a large group of handballers and the NY LBA. I am 30 now, and always dreamed of having my wedding here. So sad......end of an era for my family and I. I always loved the 70's vibe the Nevele gave off, I always felt like I was in my favorite movied Dirty Dancing. RIP Nevele and Patrick Swazey
Keith makes this comment

Thursday, 22 October 2009

Well just look at the unbelieveable yet hilarious reviews on Trip Advisor, the Nevele was probably the worst of the worst. But I don't understand why they "tried" operating the place for so long in such an utter state of disrepair. Comes a time when one must throw in the (moldy) towel. And whoever buys the property should ditch the name, as so many people have been put off.
Larry Brauner makes this comment

Friday, 30 October 2009

How sad. I have a picture in a hallway taken about 50 years ago of my brother and me sitting with our grandparents in the dining room wearing carnations on our lapels.
Eric Bailey makes this comment

Saturday, 28 November 2009

I am so upset about that hotel closed because of the bad recession and I want this hotel to be back open?

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