The former home of Seneca Lake Country Club, which has been dormant since 2015, is set to be redeveloped with a golf course, winery, lodge, events center and 100 townhomes. The project would be completed in three phases, and site work on the first phase began last fall.
If the project comes to fruition, the former home of Seneca Lake Country Club in Geneva, N.Y., will one day include a new golf course, winery, lodge, events center and up to 100 townhomes around the golf layout, the Geneva-based Finger Lakes Times reported.
During an informal presentation on March 13 to the Geneva Town Board, Matt Newcomb, from Rochester-based engineering firm Passero Associates, went over the plan. The project is being called Seneca Turk Resort Winery, the Times reported.
Passero is working with Snell Road resident Greg Missick, who bought the property off Route 14 in 2016 from the Iannopollo family, which owned the golf course for many years. The course has been dormant since the fall of 2015, the Times reported.
The project would be done in three phases. The first phase, which was approved last fall, calls for a winery/tasting room on the south side of Turk Road and a clubhouse for the nine-hole golf course. Those buildings and a parking area will be on a portion of the former golf course, which was an 18-hole layout, the Times reported.
Site work on the first phase began last fall, with construction expected to begin this spring. Newcomb said Missick brought in a golf course designer for the course, which Newcomb said is about “70 percent done” and will be open to the public, the Times reported.
The old Seneca Lake CC clubhouse, which is now the Branch by Bellangelo, would be taken down as part of the project. It would be replaced, in the second phase, by an events center that could be a wine and culinary center. Also proposed is a lodge. Newcomb said it could include up to 80 rooms, the Times reported.
The second phase also includes space for a possible restaurant or retail shopping establishment. The third phase of the project, which Newcomb said is likely two or more years out, calls for 100 townhomes around the golf course. The town would have to approve a planned unit development, which Newcomb said could be presented to the board in May, the Times reported.
Newcomb and town Supervisor Mark Venuti said if the entire Seneca Turk Resort project is approved, improvements to the town water system would be necessary for it to become a reality. “Water supply is an issue,” Newcomb said.
A preliminary traffic study has been done at the site, taking into account increased traffic due to the possible features of the project, the Times reported.
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