Pretty much any lure that’s thrown into the pond to first attract the interest of existing and potential members, and then securely hooks them, usually brings in something worthwhile.
Small Plates Go Big
Whether it’s to help them gain exposure to new flavors and ingredients, control their portion sizes, or share their dining experience with friends, club chefs are responding to their members’ growing preference for finding good things in smaller culinary packages.
Stadium Club Fried Green Tomatoes
Recipe courtesy Kevin Brennan, Executive Chef, Detroit Athletic Club, Detroit, Mich.
Detroit Athletic Club Completes Experience Project
In addition to centennial events held throughout the year, the club built a seventh floor with rooftop amenities, reconfigured the entryway and lobby, added the Madison Cafe & Shop, and remodeled the outdoor pavilion. The club also developed centennial brand logos and a 320-page, hard cover edition of DAC News magazine.
Detroit Athletic Club Caps Year-Long Centennial Celebration
Crain’s Detroit Business featured the city club’s centennial festivities and its forward-thinking facility updates, which have paid off in the form of membership waiting lists, with 62 people in line for “resident” memberships and 150 for “intermediate” memberships for those 33 and younger.
McMahon Group Recognizes Clubs of Excellence™
All past and future clubs associated with the managers who have won Excellence in Club Management Awards recognition will be honored at the annual reception and dinner during the CMAA World Conference.
New Sculptures to Stand as Latest Signs of Detroit Athletic Club’s Vigor at Age 100
The club in Michigan’s largest city will unveil its new sculpture park on April 24, and is also completing rooftop renovations to its iconic clubhouse building to create a restaurant, lounge and meeting rooms.
Attention Getters
Neutral tent spaces serve as ideal outdoor venues for member events and can strengthen a property’s identity.
Showing the Way
The fallout from the recession, combined with seismic shifts in the nature of the club business, have created a new urgency for effective leadership and a new formula for management-driven success.
Detroit Athletic Club Honored as Top Workplace
For the 14th consecutive year, the club has been named one of “Metropolitan Detroit’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For,” and was honored at a luncheon on October 30. The club was also named one of the Detroit Free Press’ 2013 Top Work Places based on employee feedback for the sixth consecutive year.
IDEA EXCHANGE
Executive Honor “Clubs within the club” have become an important part of creating new appeal for club membership, by bringing member groups together based on specific interests. Now one of the leading proponents of the concept, the Detroit Athletic Club (DAC), is taking a new step to help further solidify the lasting value of these…
Idea Exchange
Baseball, Hot Dogs and the DAC Fortuitously, the 125th anniversary of the Detroit Athletic Club (DAC)’s founding, on April 5, 1887, matched up perfectly with this year’s Major League Baseball schedule, which had the Detroit Tigers opening at home on that day with a 1 PM, nationally televised contest against the Boston Red Sox.…
City Clubs Rising
A host of successful new strategies for long-term growth is leading a market rebound for business, dining and athletic clubs. When the downturn put a damper on both corporate and individual spending, city clubs were challenged more than any others to stay relevant and provide value. To confront that challenge, many in the market segment—which…
WEB EXCLUSIVES
Industry Roundup Photos from C&RB’s Design & Renovation Insights Workshop at Congressional CC (see “Capital Assets,” pg. 10). Cover Feature PHOTOS from Commerce Club, Detroit Athletic Club, The Houston Club, The Hartford Club, The University Club Atop Symphony Towers and The Wisconsin Club, as well as exclusive Q&As with the managers of these business clubs…
Idea Exchange
More details on these Ideas, and others, available online at clubandresortbusiness.com/category/idea-exchange Halloween with a Twist On October 1, to kick off the Halloween season at the Great Wolf Lodge in Grand Mound, Wash., world-renowned balloon-twisting artist Adam Lee began to turn almost 3,000 inflated balloons, which if laid end-to-end would have covered two-and-a-half miles, into…