Brodie Mountain Sold

[ne_skier]

Brodie Mountain Sold - NewEnglandSkiIndustry.com

"Everybody knows Brodie Mountain. We’ve got big plans for it. Brodie’s going to be back." -Todd Oifer, one of the reported buyers to the Berkshire Eagle

 

[ss20]

Well... we'll see... Floridian investors running a ski resort that's been abandoned 20 years...

Place would also need some massive coin to even try and draw from Catamount, Butternut, and Jiminy Peak.

 

[mbedle]

This is from the sale site:

Muroff Hospitality Group has been selected by Holiday Inn Club Vacations to exclusively market for sale the former Brodie Mountain -Silverleaf Ski Resort in New Ashford MA. This gorgeous 500 acre property is located in the heart of the beautiful Berkshire Mountains. Only 2 1/2 hours to Boston, 3 1/2 miles to New York City, this rare opportunity is only minutes to Williamstown, Lenox, Tanglewood, Mass MoCA, the Clark Institute, and a host of restaurants, antique shops, art galleries and more. Albany International Airport is 1 hour away. This former ski resort features a number of ski slopes and other related improvements across 500 acres of land.

This unique property is being offered as a prime residential development site or for snowboarding, cross country skiing, zipline, ATV, adventure park, glamping or more. Don't let this one go! 500 Acres in the Berkshires doesn't come along every day.

Is it really possible that the deed restriction only stated no skiing?

 

[deadheadskier]

So dumb that a ski area can't go back in.

I had always heard it had the best terrain overall in Mass. Anyone who skied there care to chime in?

 

[jimmywilson69]

this place has a deed restriction that it can't be a ski area? How and why would someone do that?

 

[crank]

Been a looong time... I skied there a few times in the 1970's. Similar to Jiminy I recall. Not surprising as it's right next door. Definitely bigger and better than Butternut which is flat and bigger and mostly steeper than Catamount. I would check it out if they open for skiing.

We are actually looking into the area around Williamstown, MA for retirement. (probably 5-years out) Be nice to have another ski hill nearby.

 

[Hastur]

this place has a deed restriction that it can't be a ski area? How and why would someone do that?

The Fairbanks group. They bought It to scuttle it. Just like they purposely sabatoged Magic snowmaking.

eliminate competition. they suck.

 

[zyk]

Skied there as a kid every Friday night. Kids would ski adults would party...

 

[urungus]

The Fairbanks group. They bought It to scuttle it. Just like they purposely sabatoged Magic snowmaking.

eliminate competition. they suck.

They also convinced the widow of the owner to shut down the beloved Mt Tom ski area in Western Mass. Which is why I try to avoid Fairbank Group / Jiminy Peak at all costs, can’t stand them.

 

[thetrailboss]

The Fairbanks group. They bought It to scuttle it. Just like they purposely sabatoged Magic snowmaking.

eliminate competition. they suck.

How did they sabotage Magic?

 

[drjeff]

So dumb that a ski area can't go back in.

I had always heard it had the best terrain overall in Mass. Anyone who skied there care to chime in?

Skied there a half dozen or so times 30+ yrs ago with my college ski clubs Friday night program it had.

Terrain felt similar to Jiminy, some pitch here and there, some cruising terrain with some character, decent snowmaking on the trails that had it. Kind of what you would expect from a Bershires ski area.

Agree with the sentiment that it often was more of a bar with a ski area attached to it at times, kind of semi Magic like during some years in that respect.

If you want to say that their primary customer draw regions were Albany and Springfield/Hartford (both give or take a few minutes an hour away) skiers in those regions also had many other, often larger, places reachable to the North with an added 30 minutes or so of travel time.

And as I recall, towards its later days, Jiminy was spending and expanding and Brodie often seemed like it was struggling to buy a few rolls of duct tape to keep patching things together, and that tangible difference I am sure had some direct affect on which Berkshire Ski area many people chose to spend their $$ at

 

[urungus]

How did they sabotage Magic?

Drilled holes in the snowmaking pipes and/or filled the pipes with rocks from what I hear.

edit: see this discussion in the Magic thread

The NEW Magic Mountain

If I had to guess, there is no chance of Black opening this season if parts are still being machined. Magic will be unwilling to keep the work road clear for however long it takes to machine more parts, and rightfully so. I'd rather ski as much of the mountain as possible off Red alone, even if...

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[drjeff]

They also convinced the widow of the owner to shut down the beloved Mt Tom ski area in Western Mass. Which is why I try to avoid Fairbank Group / Jiminy Peak at all costs, can’t stand them.

As I recall, wasn't a good chunk of Mt Tom's $$ issues related to the amount of $$ they spent on their water park facilities, instead of investing into their ski facilities, especially at a time when snowmaking investment was becoming a more important thing in the industry, and as a result they were left with both ski area and waterpark facilities that needed more capital investments on a regular basis than their cash flow could support?

Skied there once in the mid 80's. My Mom was raised in South Hadley, and she was actually an early on bond holder at Mount Tom. An area with so much potential that to often struggled to figure out what it's proper brand needed to be

 

[ne_skier]

Drilled holes in the snowmaking pipes and/or filled the pipes with rocks from what I hear.

edit: see this discussion in the Magic thread

The NEW Magic Mountain

If I had to guess, there is no chance of Black opening this season if parts are still being machined. Magic will be unwilling to keep the work road clear for however long it takes to machine more parts, and rightfully so. I'd rather ski as much of the mountain as possible off Red alone, even if...

forums.alpinezone.com

Wasn't so much the Fairbanks Group that owns Bromley today as it was Joe O'Donnell, although the two have had close ties since the 90s. O'Donnell himself was also instrumental in the closures of Mount Tom and Brodie.

 

[danimals]

"This unique property is being offered as a prime residential development site or for snowboarding, cross country skiing, zipline, ATV, adventure park, glamping or more. Don't let this one go! 500 Acres in the Berkshires doesn't come along every day. "

The wording is interesting. I wonder if they figured out how to get around the deed restriction. Maybe a "snowboard resort" that allows skiing in some roundabout way. I guess it depends on how the deed restriction was written.

 

[urungus]

"This unique property is being offered as a prime residential development site or for snowboarding, cross country skiing, zipline, ATV, adventure park, glamping or more. Don't let this one go! 500 Acres in the Berkshires doesn't come along every day. "

The wording is interesting. I wonder if they figured out how to get around the deed restriction. Maybe a "snowboard resort" that allows skiing in some roundabout way. I guess it depends on how the deed restriction was written.

Although it seems unlikely that a new owner would persue this, I would love to see them get around the deed restriction that way, even though I am not a snowboarder. The opposite of MRG or Alta. Would it be the world’s first snowboard only resort ?

 

[ColdRain&Snow]

Skied there a lot late 70s/early 80s, got my wife to commit to skiing there, told her get with the program or spend a lot of weekends alone. She eventually thanked me for that.

 

[joshua segal]

"This unique property is being offered as a prime residential development site or for snowboarding, cross country skiing, zipline, ATV, adventure park, glamping or more. Don't let this one go! 500 Acres in the Berkshires doesn't come along every day. "

The wording is interesting. I wonder if they figured out how to get around the deed restriction. Maybe a "snowboard resort" that allows skiing in some roundabout way. I guess it depends on how the deed restriction was written.

I always thought Brodie was superior to Jiminy. I used to ski there a lot in the late 60s and early 70s when I was going to college in Troy, NY.

It would be interesting if it was brought back as an all-winter sports venue except for Alpine Skiing. It would be like MRG for Snowboarders!

I also wonder if there is a limit of how many years this deed restriction applied.

 

[thetrailboss]

Drilled holes in the snowmaking pipes and/or filled the pipes with rocks from what I hear.

edit: see this discussion in the Magic thread

The NEW Magic Mountain

If I had to guess, there is no chance of Black opening this season if parts are still being machined. Magic will be unwilling to keep the work road clear for however long it takes to machine more parts, and rightfully so. I'd rather ski as much of the mountain as possible off Red alone, even if...

forums.alpinezone.com

Huh? When did they do that? That’s trespass.

 

[oldfartrider]

There’s a snowboard only resort in Japan