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Special Council Meeting for Salamander Presentation HHomeome FFarmsarms GGrandrand OOpeningpening - Page 18 MustMust ProgressProgress MeanMean PavingPaving ParadiseParadise - Page 6 Middleburg’s Only Locally Owned and Operated Newspaper Volume 2 Issue 2 May 19, 2005 ~ June 15, 2005 Special Council Meeting for Salamander Presentation Jennifer Heyns Sheila Johnson, the owner of the ward business and long-distance property is also proposed which local businesses, given the impor- Salamander property. travelers who would spend more would take guests past local busi- tance of shopping as an activity for n April 28 Mayor The changes, according to time on the site. He said that the nesses on Washington Street, then guests in any modern resort. The Tim Dimos convened Devadas, were designed to make new design calls for a 50/50 mix of onto Pendleton Street to the resort. new resort and conference center a special meeting of the Salamander project “one-of- conference guests and “transient/ The original entryway on Foxcroft will also include stables, tennis the Middleburg Town a-kind” on the East Coast. In the individual travelers, to make it a Road will still be used, but only courts, trails for hiking and riding, Council to allow Salamander new plan “What was characterized world-class resort.” “It becomes for staff members and deliveries. a fi ne-dining restaurant, bar and a OHospitality, Inc. to explain their as an inn is now a world-class re- a self-contained experience,” said Devadas also emphasized that the 14-treatment-room spa and salon. “change in design” for the pro- sort.” The new design transforms Devadas, “geared toward guests only retail at the resort would be a Although the new Salamander posed Salamander Inn project that the Salamander project from a who will stay three plus nights,” standard sundries shop and also a design is geared toward out-of- is located on the northern border 58-room inn to a 120-room resort. which means “less trips in and retail facility for the spa. No oth- town visitors, Devadas said that of Middleburg, to the Council, the However, less acreage will be oc- out” on local roads. er retail facilities are planned, he local guests would be welcome to Planning Commission and general cupied by the proposed 120-room An alternate entryway to the said, noting this would be good for Continued Page 7 public. Noting that the changes resort than would have been cov- were, “of course, of interest to us.” ered by the 58-room inn. Devadas Dimos introduced the new Presi- showed how this was done using The Greatest Jockey Who Ever Lived dent of Salamander Hospitality, two large sitemaps, which allowed The 75th Anniversary of Earl Sande’s Triple Crown Win Inc., Prem Devadas. easy comparison of the original Devadas joined the Salaman- and new design plans. A “wed- Jay Wilke but what about racing’s often who won the second Triple der organization only three weeks ding pavilion” in the old plan, was unheralded heroes? What about Crown in 1930 on Gallant Fox. prior to the presentation, in which removed and additional space was ast year, Smarty Jones the jockeys? This year marks the the he outlined “the many changes added to the main building to pro- captured the hearts and In the 1920s and 1930s, 75th anniversary of Sande’s that are occurring” to nearly 50 vide for a conference center. Sites attention of sports fans famous jockeys were sports Triple Crown triumph as well people crowded into the Town for six cottages in the original plan all over the country fi gures that would rival the as his third Kentucky Derby Offi ce. Also in attendance were were also changed to take up less and almost single-handedly fame of today’s sports stars like and fi fth Belmont Stakes representatives from; McGuire space. Linvigorated the sport of horse Shaquille O’Neill, Cal Ripken, victories. Historians and racing Woods LLP, legal representation The changes, said Devadas, racing. This year Giacomo or Brett Favre. Over the years, fans all over the country are for Salamander; Oculus, landscape were made to gear the inn less came from behind to underscore there have been literally tens remembering the brilliant career architects for the project; and Dr. toward local visitors and more to- the global enthusiasm and of thousands of jockeys racing of Earl Sande. anticipation for the Running of on America’s turf, but only ten “Few jockeys were as good the Roses, the Kentucky Derby at managed to capture the Triple as Sande and certainly nobody Churchhill Downs in Louisville. Crown, racing’s most highly- was ever better,” says national Famous horses like Smarty coveted prize. turf historian and the leading Jones and Seabiscuit receive One of the most celebrated authority on the history of horse most of the sport’s accolades, of these jockeys is Earl Sande, Continued Page 9 Paul Mellon’s Row- landson Collection Comes Home Page 20 Faces & Places Check it out, You Might See Request in homes by Thursday 05/19 PRST STD Someone You Know US POSTAGE PAID BURKE VA Page 28 PERMIT NO 029 Complete guide to this issue: Page 3 • Things to Do: Page 26 • Editor’s Desk: Page 10 PAGE 2 MIDDLEBURG ECCENTRIC • MAY 19, 2005 ~ JUNE 15, 2005 MIDDLEBURG ECCENTRIC • MAY 19, 2005 ~ JUNE 15, 2005 PAGE 3 Help Preserve Hunt Territory — Place Your Property in Conservation Easement Today! P.O. 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