A new $90 million hotel and resort has been approved for the Town of Marlborough in Ulster County. Located on 152 acres at 626 Lattintown Road, the project involves redeveloping the former Saint Hubert’s hunting lodge. The developer, Marlborough Resorts LLC is based in Garden City.
The development will feature a hotel and cabins for overnight guests, a working orchard, farm market, and luxury amenities including a full-service spa, upscale and casual dining options, barbecue areas, and versatile event spaces for weddings, retreats, and local gatherings. Designed to attract both overnight visitors and day-trippers, the Marlborough Resort is expected to serve as a regional destination and community hub.
According to Attorney Anthony B. Gioffre III of the White Plains-based law firm Cuddy & Feder, back in 2011 the Marlborough Town Board approved a site plan for the land that included developing a bed & breakfast, lodge, outdoor commercial recreation facility, and a kennel.
Gioffre said that the new proposal would be consistent with what was approved in the past and would expand on it by repurposing several of the existing structures and renovating the existing lodge. He said that the applicant intends to construct several new buildings providing sleeping accommodations, recreational amenities, and other hospitality services.
The resort will feature a range of facilities for housing guests. These include a 28-room hotel along with a variety of cabins. There would be 49 cabins each of which would have two guest rooms. Eight buildings would have five guest rooms each. Two cabins would have one guest room each. There would be multiple dining facilities, an on-site distillery and farm market, a spa and gym, recreational pavilions, fire pits, and an events center for social and corporate gatherings. Sustainability is also a focus, with plans to install a solar energy system to power portions of the site.
Gioffre said that an approximately 2,077-square-feet Welcome Building is proposed along the western side of the developed area to provide guests with the necessary public lobby space, a lounge area, restrooms for arriving guests, check-in desks and concierge services, a luggage drop-off area, and associated administrative offices.
An approximately 15,870-square-feet Events Center is included. It would provide space for private social meetings and corporate events and will include a ballroom, small break-out rooms, and a separate kitchen area for food preparation. The spa and gym building would be just under 20,000 square feet.
The Ulster County Industrial Development Agency approved financial incentives for the project. These included sales tax exemptions of approximately $5.4 million and a mortgage recording tax exemption of $434,783. In addition, real estate property tax exemptions were expected to be about $6,246,342. The IDA said that the project was expected to generate 119 full-time equivalent jobs.
The IDA said a cost-benefit analysis included a projected total of $29,409,553 in sales tax revenue from the project’s retail sales over the 15-year period of exemptions, and an additional $17,055,732 in projected occupancy tax revenue over the same period for Ulster County. The IDA noted that 25% of the occupancy tax revenue goes directly to funding the Ulster County Housing Action Fund, adding a projected $4,263,933 over a 15-year period to the fund.
