Stormy Point Village adds $4M clubhouse

VPG Partners LLC opened the timeshare resort in June 2005 just west of Branson off Missouri Highway 265 in Stone County, according to J.T. Nangle, resort manager and director of hospitality services.

About 60 Cape Cod cottages have been built, with another 15 under construction in what’s designed as a “Nantucket-like fishing village,” Nangle said.

The clubhouse, completed March 1 at 132 Cape Cod Drive, is the latest phase of Stormy Point Village, a development of Branson-based VPG Partners LLC. The clubhouse has 13,000 square feet of space, including an indoor-heated pool, meeting space, gift shop, fitness center, sauna and locker rooms. It also includes the Lighthouse Lounge and an entertainment center with $25,000 invested in video game equipment.

Adjacent to the clubhouse is an outdoor pool and a 70-foot lighthouse with a view of Table Rock Lake from its observation deck.

Developers started Stormy Point Village in 2004 with a plan to build 300 cottages on 40 acres. Managing partner Pat Joyce leads VPG Partners, along with Richard Dowdell, executive administrator of development, and Darren Abbott in Branson and Dawn Joyce in Colorado.

Pat Joyce said Asheville, N.C.-based Festiva Resorts has been purchasing the cottages as they are built. Festiva, a timeshare resort management company, contracted with Summerwinds Resorts, also owned by Joyce, to provide timeshare sales and on-site operations. He said the timeshare sales of cottages at Stormy Point Village were about $38 million in 2006 and are expected to be about $40 million by year’s end.

Nangle added that at an undetermined date, Cedar Resort, which sits on the Stormy Point property, would be leveled to make room for lakefront cottages, a marina and a beach.

The 1,400 square-foot Stormy Point cottages come in four floor plans with two or three bedrooms. The interiors are decorated with a nautical theme, and the exteriors are each one of five color schemes.

Stephen Busch, of Tulsa, Okla., provided the conceptual design, and Allen Johnson of General Design of Branson is the architect for Stormy Point Village. The project is being built by WoodStone Builders of Nixa and financed through First Community Bank in Branson.[[In-content Ad]]