“I was just looking for a place to be quiet, a chance to be still,” said William Lee, the owner of the midcentury furniture store Modernlink, in SoHo, who recently bought a home in the development. “It looks very much like the Adirondacks did back in the early 1900s, with the great houses, lakefront properties and big camps.”īack at Hudson Woods, buyers are drawn by more modest amenities. “We are the opposite of a cookie-cutter subdivision,” he said. Dubrovsky tried to preserve that feeling in the contemporary version, limiting the number of roads and specifying a minimum parcel size of five acres (some parcels are as large as 20 or 30 acres). Chapin, a steamship and stagecoach magnate, was 25,000 acres with lakes and large rock outcroppings. The original Chapin estate, owned by Chester W. And there are other attractions nearby, including Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, N.Y., and Resorts World Catskills, a $1.2 billion project to open in Thompson, N.Y., next year. Late next year, the Dream Hotel Group is set to open the Chatwal Lodge, a luxury hotel, on the property. So far, 125 have been built, with room for nearly 500 more.
“Prices have gone up 400 to 500 percent since the project’s inception,” said Steve Dubrovsky, the developer, who bought the land in 1999 and began selling homes there the following year. The remainder of the project, including 245 residences - 20 percent of which have sold - will be completed in a year or so, said Michael Meldman, the company’s chief executive and chairman.Īs for the Chapin Estate, which has homes ranging from $500,000 to as much as $15 million, development is proceeding. Silo Ridge is under construction: The Discovery Land Company, which has developed high-end projects like the Yellowstone Club in Montana and Baker’s Bay in the Bahamas, opened the golf course last year a private restaurant for members opened several weeks ago.
“I had never been to this area, other than driving through, but I love the peace and beauty.” He was attracted by the golf, and the hunting and fishing. Mark Teixeira, the former Yankees baseball player, bought a condominium overlooking the 18th hole.
“Clearly, the proximity to New York and the fact it is only a 90-minute train ride doesn’t hurt, either.” Bressler is building a home on half an acre there, overlooking the golf course’s 16th hole. “It is the tranquillity up there that I love,” said Richard Bressler, the president of iHeartMedia, which owns iHeartRadio.
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