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The Keweenaw Mountain Lodge is still up for sale, and the county board of commissioners has voted to move forward with another potential buyer.
Earlier this week, it was announced that Anthony Lane Partners, LLC, of Dallas, Texas had withdrawn its intent to buy the resort after learning of a historical preservation easement.
The board of commissioners met Wednesday night in Keweenaw County and one of the main items on the agenda was to decide who to sell the lodge to.
The board received a new letter of intent to buy the 178 acre resort this week from Clayton Adams, a local resident who addressed the board at the meeting and laid out his business plan.
However, the board voted to proceed with another perspective buyer, Adoba Industries.
Currently Adoba owns and operates Eco hotels across the country including one here in the U.P., located Naubinway.
Board member Sandra Gayk explained that the lodge has been very expensive for the county to operate, and the county has an outstanding debt of $300,000 to the federal government, who has agreed to forgive that debt once the lodge is sold.
Gayk said, “To date, the county has spent over a million dollars just trying to keep the mountain lodge going. And we can’t do that. But the beauty of all this is, once it’s sold, the debt will go away and the new owner will be able to make a success of it because they won’t have that debt hanging over their head.”
Gayk also stated that Adoba Industries will take no more than 45 days to complete its due diligence before officially announcing that it will indeed purchase the resort.
