Four Seasons Resort to Be Built on Eleuthera

The Bahamas government signed an agreement with developers Cotton Bay Holdings and Mine Holdings Ltd. for a $100 million Four Seasons resort and residences on Eleuthera, according to the Nassau Guardian.

The development will include 115 hotel rooms and 40 private residences, a renovated Robert Trent Jones-designed golf course, a shopping center, a spa and recreational activities.

The South Eleuthera airport will be upgraded to allow day and night commercial and private flights.

A start-up construction date was not revealed, but Prime Minister Perry Christie said he hopes it will be by year's end.

Four Seasons' other Caribbean resort is on Nevis. The hotel company operated a resort on Exuma in the Bahamas Out Islands until August 2009, when it was acquired by Sandals and later reopened as Sandals Emerald Bay.

Source: Travel Weekly