![]() ![]() At the moment it’s bittersweet but I’m confident it’s going to be beautiful when it’s all done.” “A lot of people are upset with us for closing down, but they’ll understand once they see it open and what we’ve accomplished and achieved. It’s the perfect time to get it done,” he continued. I think we can accomplish, if not all of it, 90 percent of it before the season starts. You’re dealing with crews and bringing people in. It will cost us money to close it down, but that’s the price we have to pay for doing it right. You have a bad experience and it spreads like wildfire. ![]() There are a lot of problems, a lot of issues we have to work through, and don’t want people coming in here and having a bad experience because they’ll tell ten other people. “It would only be hurting us by letting people stay there. We’ll have a grand opening, and welcome everyone with open arms. “We’d prefer to keep it closed until we’re ready, which will be in the Spring. “We don’t want them to have a bad experience,” Mr Conigliaro said of the closure to rental guests. We are also building a beachfront tiki bar.” Bimini Cove’s fuel dock and offices will remain open to its 163 homeowners and boats requiring fuel during the renovation period, but the property will be closed to vacation and rental guests. In addition, new docks and power pedestals are being installed. “During this time we will be upgrading water power supply, rooms, restaurants and other needed upgrades. The property will be closed starting today until May 1, 2023. Every property needs renovations from time to time, and our time is now. It’s going to be non-stop for the next few months.”īimini Cove, in announcing its temporary closure, said in a flyer: “We look forward to seeing you in 2023, but. It’s going to be something that everyone’s proud to go to when it’s finished. We’re taking the bull by the horns and going to get it done. It was neglected in so many ways for various reasons. Mr Conigliaro yesterday pledged that the upgrades will be more than just a renovation, telling this newspaper: “When we get done with it it’s going to look like a brand new development. Prestige acquired the 53 unsold condo units at Bimini Cove, out of a total 216, together with the marina and associated amenities in that 2019 deal with Mr Roberts. Now everything has opened up and that’s made it a lot easier.” It discouraged a lot of people from coming. It’s been quite difficult prior with the regulations in The Bahamas. This is the first year we can get things done. “COVID is what delayed the renovation part of it. “We’re probably looking at about a $10m improvement. “The marina alone is probably $4m if not more,” Mr Conigliaro said of the developer’s ongoing investment. That represents a more than-doubling, or 169.8 percent increase, in Bimini Cove’s marina slips. It’s been under construction for a couple of weeks, and will go from 53 slips to 143 slips.” The buildings need work they need to be painted, we have a whole new landscaper ready to bring in 800 trees and shrubs, we’re resurfacing the roads, we’re rebuilding the marina. The project has been there for 20-something years, and has been pretty much neglected to a certain degree. “We took it over right before COVID, and now it is called Bimini Cove. It was like a diamond in the rough, and what we’re doing is polishing that diamond. “I have been going to Bimini for 30 years, and I have to tell you it’s one of The Bahamas’ island jewels. The property has such character and charisma. “We want to make it - I shouldn’t say a five-star resort, because it’s not a resort these are condos in a rental programme - but we want to make it a premium property,” Mr Conigliaro told this newspaper. Having renamed the former Bimini Sands, Mr Conigliaro said he and Prestige’s principals - the billionaire Asplundh family, named as America’s 103rd wealthiest family in 2015 by Forbes magazine - were now racing to transform the property’s buildings, marina, roads, landscaping, restaurants and other amenities over the next several months so it can re-open “before April 2023” in time to catch the island’s peak winter tourism season. Tribune Business well-known Bimini condo hotel has closed for a $10m overhaul that will near-triple existing marina slips and “polish a diamond in the rough”, its developer revealed yesterday.Ĭharlie Conigliaro, project manager and partner at Prestige Worldwide Resorts, told Tribune Business that the developer plans to “take the bull by the horns” and totally revamp every aspect of the Bimini Cove Resort and Marina that it acquired in 2019 from Super Value chief, Rupert Roberts. Set to ‘take bull by horns’ on wide-ranging upgrade.New owner plans to near-triple marina slips to 143.Property sold by Rupert Roberts to close for overhaul.
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