Millions spent on Longboat resort [South Florida]
When Longboat Key Club General Manager Michael Welly addresses the resort’s condo owners at the group’s Aug. 17 annual meeting, he will likely focus on the slew of upgrades that have been made in the recent past.
It is both a good story for him to tell and an easy one for owners to hear.
Within the past four years, the tony 410-acre resort has improved its aging golf courses, bought hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of links equipment, punched up the 110-seat lobby of its 221-unit condo hotel and replaced worn beach furniture, to the tune of $150,000.
The 25-year-old club has also added a sumptuous spa featuring a dozen treatment rooms, beefed up its fitness center with new machines and weights, and added a dozen employees, including an agronomist and a new golf director.