ACR lands the Great White Shark

They're just considering his design firm for a new or redesign. He may visit for a few days, look around, and never come back. Such hype.

And weed relaxes me on the course, although I haven't played in a while. Could never understand drinking and golf, but, then again, as you know, can't drink and ski, either.

Greg Norman's Southern Cross Co. seems to be developing super luxury golf communities (7) with 66 or less housing units. That is a lot different than developing 700 housing units clustered around a small, stripped out ski area in the middle of nowhere. The only things Norman sells to this market are golf shirts and wine.

Adk Jeff wrote

Oddly, we still don't know what Greg Norman's involvement in the ACR is.  Is his organization providing marketing / branding of the ACR, is he providing financial backing, is he a purchaser of a Great Camp lot?  All of the above?  

The Adirondack Daily Enterprise article that broke the news stated: "It's a big deal for Tupper Lake," Lawson said, adding that he plans to issue a press release containing the details of the arrangement along with a few other announcements over the next few days.   That was Thursday night last week.  It's Monday night now, 4 days later, and no press release or further information.  You would think that if a deal had actually been inked, a press release would have been issued immediately following Lawson's announcement Thursday night.  Red Flag.

   

Agree Jeff, Lawson has "said" lots of things over the past years that have shown to be a lot of BS.  This however may be a good thing if Norman is really "in" on the project.  Hopefully they would abandon their plan of using a PILOT program to finance their infrastructure, after all, Norman is reportedly worth $300 Million, why should the FCIDA forfeit tax revenue to help out a guy as rich as he is. That would be a big relief for the local taxpayers if the PILOT is taken off the table.

But don't expect anything to happen right away, ACR still has no permits from the various agencies looking over this, including the DEC,DOH, AG's office, ACOEs and actually the APA. The APA has issued various "orders" which require certain conditions are met before the actual permits are issued, and those conditions have not been met as of now.

There is a lot of skepticism out there, check out the comments on the ncpr article. Normans' involvement may be a good thing if he really is bringing some big cash to the table, unfortunately for us skiers I just don't think Big Tupper will see any major improvements for a long time, if at all. Even Though that has been touted as a "Centerpiece" of the project.  

mattchuck2 wrote

Coach Z wrote

Pretty hard to play golf when you are high on a wacky weed

No it's not

Consider the source MC --- Coach doesn't think Norman is a choker either

Do you just make stuff up when you respond?  The town owns the golf course.

 

Interesting: The local newspaper came out in Tupper Lake yesterday and the publisher is a huge ACR supporter. The really interesting thing is that the Greg Norman article was not plastered all over the front page in big headlines. The ADE had it at the top of page one last week with a picture of Norman.

The local publisher did put a short article on page 4 with a few quotes from Lawson but not even a mention of Greg Norman? Pretty strange given the publishers tendency to push the pro ACR propaganda to the limit. Not sure what this means, maybe next weeks addition will be totally devoted to the Norman involvement or maybe Norman saw the ADE article and wasn't pleased? Who knows.

Maybe Norman's lawyers made a call.

It's looking more and more like instead of landing the Great White Shark this is just another fish that got away.

Haha. Good one

He's in Tupper today, according to his Twitter feed:

https://twitter.com/tupperlakeny/status/603286746479079424

Sure he didn't fly back to not make a deal.  Should be more news soon I would think.

Does that instagram photo looks like it was taken on the ski hill?

The Shark does ski, I believe.

Local rag just came out w a short story, no detail. Last week in the ADE Lawson said Norman had already picked out a Great Camp lot and wanted to start building ASAP, the local rag reports that now he is going to build a ski in ski out home?  No info on timeframe for that but based on the ACRs APA app it won't be for many years.

I wonder if Norman is having money problems.

10:39 PM, yep -- Benny was stoned

I thought I read a few years back (2010?) that Norman was having some financial issues with his real estate / golf course stuff.  If true, it certainly doesn't make him unique.

Him having a ski in / out home is a good indicator the ski area is not going to be an after thought

campgottagopee wrote

10:39 PM, yep -- Benny was stoned

A little. But, really, it's the only way this all makes sense to me. Of all places for an international celebrity to wind up. Tupper. Just think of all the places in the entire world he could do this, and, he chooses.......Tupper.

Benny Profane wrote

campgottagopee wrote

10:39 PM, yep -- Benny was stoned

A little. But, really, it's the only way this all makes sense to me. Of all places for an international celebrity to wind up. Tupper. Just think of all the places in the entire world he could do this, and, he chooses.......Tupper.

Well, look what I found. I'll just leave it here. Hmmmm........Naples, Fl, Scottsdale, Az, or ....... Tupper.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/in-real-estate-golf-ups-its-game-1432820897