| February 2000- Hostmark Hospitality Group has
been awarded the contract to manage the Montauk Yacht Club, 32 Star Island
Road, Montauk, N.Y. Hostmark also manages Danford�s Inn, another
Long Island resort property.
�Hostmark plans to reposition the Montauk Yacht Club by increasing revenues
in the leisure and corporate travel markets,� according to Jerome Cataldo,
Executive Vice President. The 84 guest room and 23 villa property
has been newly renovated, redecorated and remodeled. It is located
on the water with a 232-slip marina, three pools, a full fitness center
and lighted tennis courts. Guests can dine at the award winning Lighthouse
Grill, enjoy a casual meal at the waterfront Breeze�s Café
or relax while having a drink at the Lighthouse Bar.
History - The Montauk Yacht Club Resort
& Marina
| For nearly four decades, The Montauk Yacht Club Resort & Marina
have been a perennial favorite playground for those who frequent the shores
of Long Island's South Fork East End.
The Resort actually began as three separate estates, the original Club
building was built in 1928 as the entrepreneur Carl Fisher, the master
builder who turned Miami from a sleepy backwater town into a thriving resort
city. Fisher had dreams of replicating his success with the small seaside
village of Montauk by creating a playground for the rich and famous.
He began with an elegant Tudor manor and quickly realized that he needed
a harbor to attract the grand pleasure yachts of the day. So he dug a deep
channel between freshwater Lake Montauk into Gardiner's Bay creating what
was then the world's largest private harbor.
 His
crowning glory was the 60' replica of the Montauk Lighthouse, the enduring
symbol of the region, in the midst of twenty elegant guest suites. The
lighthouse served as a perfect beacon to guide guests to the resort. Today
the lighthouse remains as a focal point of the resort and now houses meeting
rooms and beckons visitors to the Club's celebrated Lighthouse Grill.
The club's original membership included Vincent Astor, J.P. Morgan,
Nelson Doubleday, Edsel Ford, Harry Payne Whitney, Thomas Eastman, John
Wanamaker and Harold S. Vanderbilt. Among the many guests was famed aviator
Charles Lindbergh, who often flew his seaplane into the harbor to dock
at the Marina.
According to local legend, the Island Club, which was located next door
and would eventually become part of the Resort, had become the area's most
popular speakeasy and gambling casino. To ensure total privacy, the Island
Club posted sentries at the stone Stanchions at the end of the island's
causeway. When the police stopped by to pay a visit, the sentries would
radio the Club and management would hide the liquor and gambling equipment.
The third property to form the current Resort was the Bragg estate.
Caleb Bragg, one of the original governors of the club, was so enamored
of the Island that he built himself an elaborate pleasure palace right
next door. The estate was eventually purchased by Florence Ziegfield of
the Follies fame and they remain as our picturesque Villas. |
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Hostmark Hospitality Group retained to manage the
Radisson Hotel Columbus North, Columbus, Ohio.
�Plans are being made to re-position the Radisson Hotel Columbus North
and conference center within the business travel community,� stated
Jerome Cataldo, Executive Vice President at Hostmark. �This will
enable the hotel to continue to improve the quality of the experience of
the guests at the hotel.�
The Radisson Hotel Columbus North is currently undergoing a $3million
renovation project directed toward improving guest services and enhancing
the hotel�s appearance and decor. The 268-guest room, 12 suite hotel
has facilities for entertaining or conducting business meetings.
The 13,000 square foot ballroom can accommodate more than 1,000 people
and the executive conference center offers 10 soundproofed windowed rooms
to ensure successful events.
Hostmark Hospitality Group is the largest privately held third-party
hospitality management and development firm in the country, operating more
than 43 hotels and resorts worldwide.
Founded in 1965, Hostmark is a full service management firm providing
sales and marketing, human resources, food and beverage operations, accounting,
finance, information systems, construction, design, development support
and consulting services to full-service and limited-service hotels, resorts
and conference centers in the United States, Canada and the Middle East. |
