Edgewood Tahoe Lodge Project Open House Event Well-Attended

More than 100 people attended the March 29 Open House event to learn about the Edgewood Tahoe Lodge Project, a 194-room LEED-designed hotel with significant environmental improvements located adjacent to the Edgewood Clubhouse. The project will help boost the local economy and include a bistro-style restaurant, large conference meeting space, a spa, lakefront recreation, and links to nearby bike and walking trails.

The event set up featured a trade-show format where Edgewood's project team members were on-hand with large visual schematics and detailed information about the economic, community and environmental improvements.

"We're pleased to see so many people in our community interested and there was certainly a lot of positive support in the room. We appreciated people taking the time to give us input because together, we can create a better Tahoe," said Patrick Rhamey, Vice President of Real Estate, Edgewood Companies.

As part of the approval process required by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA), the Edgewood Tahoe Lodge Project is currently undergoing an extensive Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) review process by an outside environmental consulting firm. The draft results of this study will be available for the public to review in early April (for 60 days).

“We hosted the open house so community members could easily ask questions about the project and get involved. The draft EIS is hundreds of pages long and we wanted to make the process more user-friendly,” said Rhamey.

Event organizers said comments from attendees ranged from "Great information; Liked the format; Staff very knowledgeable" to "I would like to see the next layer of details to the project and Get it built!"

To learn more about the Edgewood Lodge Project, please visit: www.edgewoodtahoe.com/lodge

If approved Edgewood says the project would provide an economic catalyst for the community, generating construction work and more than 400 direct and indirect jobs.

Community enhancement benefits would include:
— Access to lakefront activities
— Participating in Stateline-to-Stateline bikeway project
— Building and donating a 1-acre neighborhood park to the city of South Lake Tahoe
— Golf course upgrades at Edgewood Tahoe

Environmental improvements
— Improving upon current water quality program for a 4,200-acre watershed
— Stopping 500,000 pounds of sediment including 49,000 pounds of fine sediment from entering the lake each year
— Removing more than 1.5 acres of development from sensitive soil areas adjacent to Lake Tahoe
— Removing 24 acres of turf for fertilized management
— Restoring and creating more than 4 acres of new wetland areas
— Restoring 1,400 feet of fish passage to Lake Tahoe
— Creating new spawning habitat for fish