During clubhouse upgrades, the club has opened a restaurant in a shuttered wine bar in downtown Littleton, Colo., for members.

Columbine Country Club is temporarily moving its restaurant to a shuttered wine bar in downtown Littleton, Colo., while the club completes a $20 million rebuild of its facilities, the Denver, Colo.-based BusinessDen reported.

“Usually when a country club is going through renovations, (its facilities) will be closed,” said Robert Cuillard, the club’s membership director. “We have a very social membership and they love to be around each other, so we wanted to provide that during renovations.”

The club signed a two-year lease on the 2,200-sq. ft. former Delizio’s wine bar, which closed last year. Cuillard said the restaurant, dubbed Columbine on Main, will serve the club’s members until its new clubhouse is finished in 2017, BusinessDen reported.

“The old restaurant was a wine bar so there actually wasn’t a kitchen in there,” Cuillard said. “We’re adding a formal kitchen, new furniture and a whole new look.”

Cuillard said architecture and construction was completed by Marsh and Associates, the same company that’s building the clubhouse. Columbine on Main will keep the club’s kitchen staff employed during the renovations. The club maintains 60 service staffers that work in its kitchen during slow months, all of whom would be out of a job without the restaurant, BusinessDen reported.

After the club completes its renovation and reopens, it’ll feature four restaurants on-site. The renovations are proceeding on schedule, Cuillard said. Construction on a new pool will begin next week with plans to open by Memorial Day. Workers will begin building the new clubhouse in March, BusinessDen reported.

“The building itself has been around 60 years, and it’s just outdated,” Cuillard said. “We’re going to get rid of this building and build a brand new, 55,000-sq. ft. facility.”