Neal Myers, Robert Caravaggi, Donna Goddard, Adrian Goddard and Allen DePuy of Commonwealth Golf were at the Storm King Golf Course on March 3. Mr. and Mrs. Goddard expect to purchase the club later in the month.
Adrian and Donna Goddard are hoping to close on the Storm King Golf Course later this month, They’re local people, who have lived in Mountainville since 1998. On the evening of March 3, they hosted an open house at the club that attracted more than 80 people (most of them members or former members).
Mr. Goddard is a real estate developer whose projects have included the Barnes and Noble mall in Newburgh and a Price Chopper mall in Warwick. “This is a local effort,” he said during a mid-day interview on March 3. “We’re going to give Cornwall a great local amenity again.”
What Cornwall would get would be a refurbished golf course with times set aside for members plus other times when the course would be open to the public.
The community would also get the Storm King Restaurant, Bar and Catering, which would be run by the husband-and-wife team of Robert and Blaine Caravaggi, who are residents of Cornwall-on-Hudson.
Mr. Caravaggi has been in the restaurant business in New York City for 30 years, Most recently he owned Swifty’s — an upscale restaurant on the East Side that offered American food along with European specialties.
“We love this setting,” Mr. Caravaggi said as he pointed to the mountains in the distance. “And we love this community. We’d like to do something special for it.”
The restaurant would be open to the public, and might well be an attraction to tourists visiting the Storm King Art Center. (There were 140,000 of them last year.)
Mr. Caravaggi envisioned them capping the experience with a cocktail on the patio and dinner at his restaurant. “It could be considered a ‘day in Cornwall,” he said.
Neal Myers would be the restaurant’s chef. He most recently worked as the executive chef of the Wentworth Inn in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Storm King Members will get a discount when they dine at the club, but you won’t have to be a member to eat or drink there.
The prospective owners plan some cosmetic changes to the interior, and some improvements to the course, which will be managed by Commonwealth Golf for the second year in a row.
Allen DePuy of Commonwealth said the bank did right by the club last year, but the involvement of a local investor should be exactly what the club needs.