Nevele Grand Hotel
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The Nevele Grande Hotel was a high rise
resort hotel located in the Town of Wawarsing
, just outside of Ellenville, New York
, that closed its doors in 2009. The Nevele (NEV-uh-lee) dated back to the days of the Borscht Belt
, opening in 1903. “Nevele” is “Eleven” spelled backwards — according to lore
, after the eleven nineteenth-century schoolteachers who discovered a waterfall within its present-day property. Its property included a once highly regarded 18-hole golf course
and a 9-hole golf course which are also closed and have fallen into disrepair.
Originally named simply Nevele, the resort was renamed the Nevele Grande when it merged with the adjacent Fallsview resort after the Nevele was sold by the original owners in 1997. President
Lyndon B. Johnson
once stayed at the Nevele, to dedicate a new hospital in Ellenville in 1966. By 2006 the Nevele Grande had fallen on hard times and the Fallsview property was sold off. The Fallsview has since reopened as the Honors Haven Resort and Spa. The original Nevele property, containing a distinctive high rise building, remained open for several years after the split as the Nevele Grande resort. Owners Mitchell Wolff and Joel Hoffman struggled financially and failed to pay taxes and eventually shut down the resort down without notice after the 2009 Fourth of July
weekend.
On September 1, 2009, an auction of the property was canceled the day before it was to occur because a buyer was allegedly found. However, by the time the auction was scheduled the property had fallen into a state of disrepair, including "musty staircases and rooms, big and small, with odd smells wafting out of them.". The hotel remained unsold months later, although Hoffman was still attempting to generate revenue with a deal to sell timber on 100 acre (0.404686 km²) of property. He also renewed an agreement to let Nextel put cell phone antennas atop one of the hotel's buildings.
On March 26, 2010, New York State Supreme Court Judge Mary Work granted Wolff ownership of the hotel in light of Hoffman's failure to pay Wolff an earlier $2m judgment. The initial dispute arose when Wolff sold Hoffman 99% control of the hotel in exchange for lifetime health benefits, a deal on which Hoffman almost immediately reneged. Judge Work described Hoffman's mismanagement of the hotel "staggering," and upbraided him in court for failure to be forthcoming. The judgment named Xinjiang Daming, one of China
's largest mining companies, as a potential buyer, but there have been no new public developments in any potential sale since.
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resort hotel located in the Town of Wawarsing
Wawarsing, New York
Wawarsing is a town in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 13,157 at the 2010 census. The name means "a place where the stream bends" in the Warwarsink language and refers to the geography of the land; particularly the joining of the Ver Nooy Kill and the Rondout Creek. The...
, just outside of Ellenville, New York
Ellenville, New York
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, that closed its doors in 2009. The Nevele (NEV-uh-lee) dated back to the days of the Borscht Belt
Borscht Belt
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, opening in 1903. “Nevele” is “Eleven” spelled backwards — according to lore
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, after the eleven nineteenth-century schoolteachers who discovered a waterfall within its present-day property. Its property included a once highly regarded 18-hole golf course
Golf course
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and a 9-hole golf course which are also closed and have fallen into disrepair.
Originally named simply Nevele, the resort was renamed the Nevele Grande when it merged with the adjacent Fallsview resort after the Nevele was sold by the original owners in 1997. President
President of the United States
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
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once stayed at the Nevele, to dedicate a new hospital in Ellenville in 1966. By 2006 the Nevele Grande had fallen on hard times and the Fallsview property was sold off. The Fallsview has since reopened as the Honors Haven Resort and Spa. The original Nevele property, containing a distinctive high rise building, remained open for several years after the split as the Nevele Grande resort. Owners Mitchell Wolff and Joel Hoffman struggled financially and failed to pay taxes and eventually shut down the resort down without notice after the 2009 Fourth of July
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weekend.
On September 1, 2009, an auction of the property was canceled the day before it was to occur because a buyer was allegedly found. However, by the time the auction was scheduled the property had fallen into a state of disrepair, including "musty staircases and rooms, big and small, with odd smells wafting out of them.". The hotel remained unsold months later, although Hoffman was still attempting to generate revenue with a deal to sell timber on 100 acre (0.404686 km²) of property. He also renewed an agreement to let Nextel put cell phone antennas atop one of the hotel's buildings.
On March 26, 2010, New York State Supreme Court Judge Mary Work granted Wolff ownership of the hotel in light of Hoffman's failure to pay Wolff an earlier $2m judgment. The initial dispute arose when Wolff sold Hoffman 99% control of the hotel in exchange for lifetime health benefits, a deal on which Hoffman almost immediately reneged. Judge Work described Hoffman's mismanagement of the hotel "staggering," and upbraided him in court for failure to be forthcoming. The judgment named Xinjiang Daming, one of China
China
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's largest mining companies, as a potential buyer, but there have been no new public developments in any potential sale since.