Thirteen buildings are getting extensive renovations - including the Main Lodge, which started as a home for members of the Pulitzer family in 1915, and the Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy Chapel built in the 1860s. Six guest room buildings were demolished. “It look longer (lining up financing and construction crews) than it’s going to take to build it,” Holland said.Įvery structure at Bishop’s Lodge is getting heavy-handed attention.
Lining up a construction crew also took three years in an era when more than 70 percent of the industry since 2013 has reported challenges in hiring qualified workers, according to the Associated General Contractors of America. Holland finally found private equity lender Fortress Credit, a section of Fortress Investment Group, to finance the project, estimated at $70 million.
The work would take 1½ years and the revamped 1920s getaway a few miles north of Santa Fe would reopen in 2017. You’ve heard it before - first, when Bishop’s Lodge Ranch Resort & Spa closed in 2015 for renovations.