The six-month project at the San Diego property created a great room with an open-faced bar, lounge with modern seating and a communal table, a new menu with local craft beers on tap, and an updated lobby with custom-made ironwork. Other renovations include an enlarged formal dining room, a new fine-dining area with fireplace, and an outdoor veranda that has doubled in size.
A six-month, $2.5 million renovation at Bernardo Heights Country Club in San Diego came to an end this week, with a party for members held on March 22. A community-wide open house is planned for later this spring, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
“The clubhouse’s new look combines California style with a contemporary Spanish flair suited to the building’s Spanish colonial architecture,” said General Manager Eric Stear. “Portions of a wall that had separated one of the main dining rooms from a cocktail lounge have been removed, creating a ‘great room’ centered on a large open-faced bar and a lounge with modern seating, a communal table, an innovative new menu, and local craft beers bottled and on tap.
“The lounge also features a media area with multiple large-screen TVs for viewing sporting events,” he said.
The lobby that leads into the new bar, which is around three times larger than the old bar, will probably be the biggest surprise to those entering. “The ironwork was custom made,” he said. “Each panel weighs more than 400 pounds. It’s a beautiful entrance.”
Other renovations include a slightly enlarged formal dining room, a new fine dining area complete with large fireplace and an outdoor veranda that is now twice as large, the Union-Tribune reported.
The renovations were paid for by ClubCorp, which purchased the Bernardo Heights Country Club in December 2015. “The design is impressive,” Stear said.
The club has undergone a five-stage renovation project in the last eight years that included locker room and bar area remodeling in a “piecemeal” fashion, Communications Director Bill Stewart said, but nothing this extensive has been done to the club since it was built in the mid-1980s, the Union-Tribune reported.
“(The previous) bar was historically in too small a space,” Stewart said.
“Reopening the clubhouse actually marks the completion of a larger, multimillion-dollar effort that began well over a year ago with a $2.9 million golf course renovation,” Stear said. “That project preceded the clubhouse work and beautified the golf course with new fairway and greenside bunkers and more than 10,000 drought-tolerant plants.
“We also removed 35 acres of turf from irrigation and installed an ultra-efficient irrigation system that has reduced our water consumption by nearly 30 percent,” he said.
With the clubhouse renovation complete, Stear said the club is looking to expand its membership of 393 members. In the next couple months some membership deals, including social memberships, will be announced, the Union-Tribune reported.
On Thursday the club’s new menu will also debut. It is set to be changed every three months, Stear said. “It will have more fresh local steaks and seafood and some traditional signature dishes that our members love so much,” he said.
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