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Hurricane council reviews $2.3 million Sky Mountain clubhouse expansion and accessibility upgrades
Summary
Architects and golf-course staff presented a schematic plan to expand the Sky Mountain clubhouse, add an ADA ramp, a 1,200-square-foot assembly room and practice area, and basement starter facilities; council members discussed funding, parking constraints and a likely January opening.
Architect Randy Campbell of Campbell Architecture and Cameron Brown of Sky Mountain Golf Course presented a schematic plan to expand the course’s clubhouse, describing a roughly $2.3 million project that would add accessible routing, a larger banquet room and practice facilities.
The proposal includes a new ADA-accessible ramp connecting the upper parking lot to the lower-level cart/starter area, a 3,500-square-foot net addition to the building, an approximately 1,200-square-foot assembly/great room intended for tournament banquets and small events, expanded dining/kitchen space (including a doubled grill and hood), a new chipping and putting practice area, and basement starter and restroom facilities with an ice machine.
The plan also calls for a stairwell and a new site turnaround to improve circulation for golfers arriving from the course, covered cart staging for roughly half of the fleet, and design choices intended to preserve views of Pine Valley and nearby red-rock scenery. Campbell said the new additions would be primarily steel-framed, include acoustic wood slats in the great room, and hide mechanical equipment from street view. The team showed color and material options and said paint and modest material changes were preferred to costly replacements.
“Total with new additions onto this building, we’re looking about 3,500 square feet in total additions,” Campbell said. “The main portion is this assembly area. It’s approximately 1,200 square feet of additional space.”
Brown said the club currently runs a fleet of 75 carts and does not plan to expand cart storage significantly, but the new covered staging will help operations in inclement weather and make cart pickup easier. He said the expanded practice area and assembly room would reduce congestion on busy days and improve the customer experience for tournaments and private events.
Finance and timing were discussed at length. A city official summarized a schematic budget estimate of approximately $2,300,000 and said the course operates as an enterprise fund that has been setting money aside for years. The city representative said staff could technically pay cash but recommended a fuller evaluation of course needs (including water-line repairs and maintenance shed improvements) before tapping all available reserves.
Council members noted a major constraint: parking. “We can build this thing as big as we want. You’re just gonna be limited by the parking lot,” one council member said. Designers said the project tries to limit new hardscape and use existing parking where possible. The project team estimated an opening in January of the year after final design and permitting, contingent on completing construction drawings and bidding.
No formal council action was recorded on the schematic presentation; staff said the next steps are to complete construction drawings, refine cost estimates, and return to council for bidding authorization and any funding decisions.
