Award of Merit Residential/Hospitality: Yellowstone Club – The Village

Yellowstone Club – The Village
Big Sky, Mont.
Award of Merit

Owner: Yellowstone Development; Cross Harbor Capital Partners; Discovery Land Co.
Lead Design Firm: Hart Howerton 
General Contractor: GE Johnson Construction Co./Jackson Contractor Group JV
Structural Engineer: Nishkian Menninger
Civil Engineer: Houser Engineering LLC

The largest private project in both size and cost in the history of Montana, the Yellowstone Club is a 15,000-acre luxury resort and residential community that offers 100 ski runs and an 18-hole golf course designed by PGA champion Tom Weiskopf. Four new buildings, an underground parking structure, and a new central plant were built to serve the current ski base and a planned gondola. Faced with limited local manpower and housing resources, the team initiated a broad recruiting effort that drew workers from 47 states, Canada and beyond. Much of the workforce lived in Bozeman, nearly an hour away, so tour buses were brought in for daily transportation of workers.

Read the article at ENR.