The buyers are not retired guys in white shoes riding around in golf carts. All of the sales are handled by Silo Ridge’s own sales force and many are sold to New Yorkers who already have a home in one of Discovery Land’s other developments. You won’t find Silo Ridge “doors” for sale on Zillow. Condo townhouses are going up with 17 of the 88 already closed at prices averaging around $2.5 million and the first buildings getting close to move-in. Most of these sales are package deals costing between four and five million. Another option is a stand-alone 3,100 to 4,800 square foot developer-built house which can be individually customized. A buyer can choose from 57 estate lots and build their own house – 25 have been sold according to the sales team (see chart). Silo Ridge’s 800 acres includes a 18-hole golf course designed by Tom Fazio, is now open to members along with the Ridge House golf house serving fine food and drink all day long.Īccording to the sales team, there are 245 “front doors,” the term they use instead of units, and 70 have already been sold – most for all cash. Silo Ridge was restarted when Discovery Land Company, the developer behind Montana’s Yellowstone Club and 20 other resort properties, partnered with Stone Leaf Partners of Millbrook. Silo Ridge is about young, active, wealthy families The future of the former 330-acre campus, adjacent to the Ten Mile River Metro North stop with 50 buildings and an on-site power plant, remains uncertain. With the 2013 closing of the Taconic DDSO, a state institution for the developmentally disabled, located in Wassaic and the consequent loss of jobs has had an impact on the local housing market. The reputation of the art, dance, music and film programs in the converted Maxon Mills grain elevator and livestock auction barn of the Wassaic Project continues to grow, attracting the contemporary culture set. Amenia is returning to its past as a resort with the high-end revival and renewal of Troutbeck, sold to new owners in 2016 for $5,903,000.
The former gathering spot, the Cozy Corner, has been transformed into Monte’s, a casual fine dining destination with celebrity chef Daphna Miszrahi.
The Presbyterian Church (see photo right) with its colorful slate roof and Tiffany window was sold for $250,000 to Stoneleaf Lot Venture LLC and will be converted into off-site office space for Silo Ridge.
The town government is now comfortably settled into the old Amenia elementary school, which it purchased for $1 from the school district. Will it alter the character of northeastern Dutchess County? Will it affect real estate prices in Amenia and the surrounding area?Īmenia has changed a great deal in the last several years. Fifteen years in the making, Silo Ridge, our area’s first luxury gated community, the Tuxedo Park of the 21st century, is becoming a reality. On the other side of the tracks, on Route 22, is the exclusive Silo Ridge Field Club. By Christine Bates hours from New York’s Grand Central Station, the hamlet of Wassaic in the Town of Amenia is the end of the line on the Harlem Valley Metro North railroad.
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