Meeting News - November 19, 2007 - (Page 42)

Destination Insider: Reno & Lake Tahoe Edited by William Ng william.ng@nielsen.com Lake Tahoe’s North Shore Is Bustling with Activity Even before the new $300-million, 173-room RitzCarlton Highlands Lake Tahoe and the $80-million restoration at the historic 200-room Cal Neva Resort are ﬁnished in 2009, a number of smaller meetings-friendly projects along the shoreline and Offering rustic charm, The Chateau, located at Incline Village, caters 600 meeting goers. mountain communities of North Lake Tahoe are being completed and ready for group business. In Tahoe City, Heritage Plaza opened earlier this year. The park-like setting overlooking the lake is available for events, with amphitheater-style seating for up to 50 attendees. Just outside of Tahoe City, the Granlibakken Conference Center & Lodge completed an expansion of its Executive Lodge last June, bringing the resort’s offerings to 188 guest rooms and 16,000 sf of meeting space. The Mountain Ballroom has 5,400 sf plus 1,600 sf of prefunction area for up to 500 attendees. In July, Boulder Bay LLC, in a partnership with three other companies, acquired both the Crystal Bay Hotel and Tahoe Biltmore and surrounding land. Plans are now under way to build a boutique meetings hotel-casino that will be surrounded by a village of shops and restaurants. Further east along Lake Tahoe’s North Shore, renovations have just been completed at The Chateau, an events venue located on the Incline Village Championship Course golf course. The building features vaulted ceilings, stacked stone ﬁreplaces, an expansive deck, and 4,500 sf of meeting space. A new small meetings option lies in Truckee, with last year’s opening of the hip European-style, 42-room Cedar House Sport Hotel. There is also activity at nearby mountain resorts: The Village at Squaw Valley USA opened its 1,200-sf Alpenglow meeting room, along with several new shops and restaurants last year. Its 2,000-sf Mountain Stream space is slated to open next February, divisible by three and featuring ﬂoor-to-ceiling windows, an outdoor patio, and high-speed Internet access. Adjacent to the village, the 141-room Squaw Valley Lodge and the 61-room PlumpJack Squaw Valley both refurbished their guest rooms and meeting spaces last year. The second phase of Northstar-at-Tahoe’s new Village at Northstar wrapped up this fall, bringing its one- to four-bedroom condominium roster to 193 units and opening 5,000 sf of meeting space.

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