Believe it or not, there's a golf club in Florida, Orange County National Golf Center & Lodge (OCN), that doesn't have a single house or condo on the property— and never will. This is even harder to believe when you learn that the OCN property spreads over 920 acres of some of central Florida's most desirable acreage, and is [...]
The charts and figures presented in this main State of the Industry article, and also in the “Trendline” sidebars that can be found throughout this issue’s subject-specific feature sections, were drawn primarily from two studies conducted this year by the McMahon Group Inc., the St. Louis-based full-service private club consulting firm. The studies—the 2005 Operations and Facilities Private Club Marketplace [...]
Research Assistance by Anthony C. Zecca, Jr. and Alexis Crawford All Graphs Courtesy of McMahon Group, Inc. Throughout the year, the headlines have rolled in steadily from all over the country, like new precinct reports adding more negative totals to a landslide election defeat. From Boston: Country Clubs Hunt for Members From the Pittsburgh area: Golf Clubs Scrambling [...]
Leading-Edge Event Concepts Ocean Edge management has become well-known for finding creative ways to capitalize on the unique appeals of its property by promoting imaginative events not only to club members, but also resort guests and business meeting participants. Here’s a sampling of some inspired packages recently offered: Heritage Cooking Package—Also billed as “culinary preparation adventure weekends,” these offer the [...]
A Management-Made Lake Around the country—and particularly where growth is especially rapid and uncontrolled, such as in the Sun Belt, high-tech corridors, or metropolitan areas that are succumbing to suburban sprawl—more and more country clubs and golf courses are feeling the effects of America’s inability to curb overdevelopment. Creeks that used to barely trickle through a club property now spill [...]
and Jamie L. Scheppers, Associate Editor Photography by Wood Sabold Golf As A Greeting Card In the modest conference room of Recycled Paper Greetings, headquartered in an equally modest building (a former dairy) on Chicago’s North Side, the walls hold slotted boards on which dozens of greeting cards are displayed and categorized by type of occasion or sentiment (anniversary, belated [...]
and Jamie L. Scheppers, Associate Editor When it recently upgraded its dining room technology, Cleveland’s Union Club found it was able to greatly improve service through touch-screen order entry. No matter what a diner wanted, the club’s wait staff could now efficiently and accurately transmit the order to the kitchen by going to a computer screen and pushing a quick [...]
Thirty Minutes of Their Time A half-hour into some staff meetings, a lot of bosses are still droning on through spreadsheet reports, or finally beginning to wrap up a recap of last night’s company softball game. But precisely thirty minutes after John Wright convened with his Norwood Hills department heads on the Wednesday morning before the 4th of July weekend, [...]
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