Edgewood Tahoe Lodge plans unveiled (WITH SLIDESHOW)

Reinvention: We're all in this together.
This is the vision of the proposed Edgewood Tahoe Lodge at Stateline.
The plan by Edgewood Companies is to create a unique world-class destination that delivers significant economic, environmental and community benefits to South Shore Lake Tahoe.  

“That is one of the things that investment can bring to the community, said Patrick Rhamey, vice president of Real Estate for Edgewood Companies. “We have continued to re-invest our property over the years and hope to be a pathway for others to follow.”
 
The 194-unit Lodge intends to attract new visitors to Lake Tahoe who stay longer and drive less. The state-of-the-art, LEED designed Lodge project would include unprecedented water quality improvements for the Edgewood Creek watershed.  Edgewood Companies aims to exhibit proactive leadership with regard to economic and environmental improvement and aligns with the Prosperity Plan regional collaboration strategies.
 
"We are committed to the community's success. Our vision is to bring tangible community benefits to the people of Lake Tahoe and beyond," Project Manager Brandon Hill told the Tahoe Mountain News earlier this year. "It is our intention to contribute to the tourism, wellness and environmental efforts of the area via the Prosperity Plan. We believe in collaboration and working together."
 
Meanwhile plans are in the works for the overall roughly $100 million project, which Edgewood would like to see completed by late 2014 or early 2015. Edgewood conducted a preliminary economic impact study to look at the contribution to South Shore as a whole. The project would employ roughly between 175 to 200 in direct jobs, 87-to 200 indirect jobs such as supplies, consultants and business to business endeavors, and 25 to 50 ancillary jobs. The project will also generate up to $2 million annually in taxes and fees for local government and visitors authorities. The study also determined that Edgewood patrons will bring over $20 million annually in discretionary spending.
“We see this as being a catalytic improvement for the economic situation on south shore,” Hill said.
 
The project is also considered environmentally sound, set back 300 feet from the high water mark on the shore of Lake Tahoe and will add an additional 200,000 square feet of stream zone environment. Construction would meet LEED construction standards, with a living roof, and multiple water quality projects to improve the treatment of water coming on the Edgewood Golf Course from Edgewood Creek watershed, the golf course creek watershed and the Stateline Storm Water Association. 
“This area is at the base of a 4000 acre watershed,” said Jason Drew, a watershed scientist with Nichols Consulting Engineers. “This is the final line of defense and natural water treatment for the entire Edgewood Creek watershed.”
The project features five environmental threshold projects, which will focus on improving the pond and creek system through the property, with little to no impact on the course. Of of which will create a direct link back to the lake for Edgewood Creek and provide several hundred feet of spawning area for the reintroduction of native species. The project proposes to remove 24 acres of golf turf area from active management and fertilization.
 

“We are taking a system that functions well today, (even though it was not designed to) and making it that much better, and continuing to maintain it for the future,” — Brandon Hill, Project Manager, Edgewood Companies.

 
The improvements involve both mechanical and natural biological filtration enhancements involving Edgewood Creek and the golf course pond and wetland systems. In the first stage of building, two existing single family homes would be removed, as well as the existing surface parking lot. The area will be restored and made into a public beach with passive aquatics rentals, and an event lawn for outdoor parties up to 1000. The currently existing South Room will be expanded approximately 50 feet to accommodate larger groups, and the expanded downstairs area will offer public bathrooms for the beach and storage for kayaks and the like.
 
“The ability to bring in larger groups, both indoors and outdoors will drive lodging overflow for the whole community,” said Tracy Owen Chapman, Edgewood spokesperson.
 
As for the Lodge itself, Edgewood intends to own and operate the property under the Edgewood brand. The Park family has held the 500 acre area since 1896 and is in its sixth and seventh generation of ownership.
“We want to emphasize this is not a green fill or new development, it is redeveloping an existing site,” said Drew. “By tearing down old and inefficient buildings with poor water runoff and replacing them with new building that incorporates green building and energy efficiency.”
 
The concept for the lodge has been in the works since the early 90s, with the bulk of it located where the 9th fairway is today, southwest of the existing clubhouse. The developers would like construction to begin sometime in 2013 and would stage the golf course realignment in 2012 in such a way as to have minimum impact during the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament. 
 

About Edgewood Companies
Owner operators of 500 acres at Lake Tahoe since 1896
— Edgewood Golf Course 
— Friday Station 
—  Edgewood Water Station 
—  Horizon Casino Resort 
—  MontBleu Casino Resort 
— Harvey’s (land) 
— Legacy of land stewardship and giving back 
— Committed and here for the long term 
— Land owners in Carson Valley since 1872: 4,400 acre Park Cattle Company; Minden, NV based 
 

 

Why Edgewood Lodge
Opportunity
 — Create an amenity matched with natural beauty 
— Build on what’s already incredible about Lake Tahoe and currently at Edgewood 
— Link visitors to Lake Tahoe with an ideal location 
— Be part of new economic vision for Basin (Prosperity Plan) 
— Market demand 
— Guest requests for on-site lodging 
— New market: quality, green lodging, recreation based experience 

 

The Plan
 The family-owned, locally operated Edgewood Tahoe Lodge will cultivate the new image of Lake Tahoe – where health, recreation, and green building fuel local economies; where the blighted old is replaced by the 
energy-efficient, attractive new. Where visitors and locals come and leave with experiences that last a lifetime. 
The hope is that the Edgewood Tahoe Lodge attracts new visitors – who stay longer, drive less and care about Lake Tahoe. 
 

 Project Overview
 The project will include 126 standard rooms, 24 guest suites, four deluxe suites, and interval ownership of between 20 to 40 units for a total of between 174 to 194 units.
 
Other program amenity features will include:
— A Wellness Center (Spa and Fitness
— Walking path to downtown
— New public beach
— Onsite Conference/Meeting Facility
— Transportation Program

 

Project Goals
 To  reinvent and renew… 
— Environmental Improvements 
— Economic Catalyst 
— Community Benefits 

 

Environmental Improvements
 Make Tahoe Blue by Improving the Lake's clarity
— Delivering water quality improvements on 4,000 acres in the Tahoe Basin
— Adding over 1.2 acres of wetland to capture and filter harmful run-off from urban areas
— Removing over 1.5 acres of development from sensitive stream areas
 
Improving Air Quality by:
 
— Eliminating five inefficient 60-year-old hotels, 194 rooms
— Creating a half mile walking path to link people between the Lodge, downtown and public beaches 
— Providing airport and local shuttle service for guests and employees
 
Improving Recreation by:
— Creating a new public beach
— Participating in public/private partnership on Stateline-to-Stateline Bikeway
— Building 1-acre community park
— Providing bikes and links to regional bike trail systems for guests
— Making upgrades to golf course to improve play
 
Improving Views by:
— Removing two lakefront homes and a parking lot adjacent to the lake
— Restoring old hotel sites to natural and/or park conditions
— Using architectural style that fits with recreational and natural values of the region

 

Economic Catalyst
 
Creating Jobs
— More than 400 direct and indirect jobs
— Economic catalyst for Lake Tahoe Prosperity Plan
 
Supporting Local Tax Base
— Guest discretionary spending of up to $24 million annually in South Shore
— Up to $2 million in tax revenue from TOT and lodging fees per year
— Increase in generated sales tax by $1.7 million per year
 

 

Community Benefits
Recreation
— Creating a new public beach
— Building a 1-acre community park
— Participating in public/private partnership on Stateline to Stateline Bikeway
— Making upgrades to golf course to improve play
— Providing bikes and links to regional bike path for guests