Who is Hudson River Valley Resorts?
To quote from their submission letter to the Rosendale Town Board dated November 20, 2007 requesting “a zone text amendment for the proposed action”: HRVR is an investment group that “includes Rick Steele of Longmeadow Capital, Matrix Planning LLC, and Revolution LLC, as well as other individual investors. The corporation was formed for the purpose of acquiring, master planning, and developing the subject property. HRVR has hired Canopy Development, LLC as the development manager of the proposed resort community…” Click to open Chris Beall’s Who’s Who page on the developer and the group of investors Canopy is a development company whose major stakeholder as of September ’07 was a company called Revolution LLC, a conglomerate created by former AOL/Time-Warner CEO Steve Case. As of July ’08, the project is being driven by Rick Steele of Longmeadow Capital, partnering with Revolution LLC, Matrix LLC and other investors in a new corporate entity that calls itself Hudson River Valley Reso