Former Brodie Mountain Ski Resort sold
By Michael DeMasi – Reporter, Albany Business Review
Nov 20, 2023
Updated Nov 21, 2023 10:22am EST
The former Brodie Mountain Ski Resort in the Berkshires sold for $995,000.
The 500-acre property in New Ashford, Massachusetts, was bought by Oifer Industries LLC of Florida, according to Mitch Muroff of Muroff Hospitality Group in Newton, Massachusetts.
The deal closed Nov. 17.
The LLC incldues four partners, according to Todd Oifer of Lithia, Florida.
“We’ve got big plans for the property but we’re not disclosing anything yet,” Oifer said in a brief phone interview Tuesday. “There will be more to come in the near future.”
Muroff secured the buyers on behalf of the seller, Silverleaf Resort LLC of Texas, a subsidiary of Holiday Inn Club Vacations Inc.
“They intend to slowly redevelop the property,” Muroff said of the buyers.
Brodie Mountain is about 40 miles east of Albany International Airport and less than three miles from Jiminy Peak, a longtime, popular ski mountain in the Berkshires.
Downhill skiing ended at Brodie Mountain in 2002, followed several years later by the closure of a snow tubing park.
Although there are ski lifts, they are about 20 years old and there’s a deed covenant that prohibits use for a period of time as a downhill ski course open to the public, Muroff said.
That prohibition came about after the owners of Jiminy Peak bought Brodie Mountain. Years later they sold to Holiday Inn Club Vacations/Silverleaf Resort as part of its purchase of a dozen ski resorts.
Holiday Inn Club Vacations had no plans to redevelop Brodie, Muroff said.
The deed restriction limited the marketability of the real estate when it was initially listed two years ago for $2.7 million. The price was then lowered to $1.9 million.
The property was described as “a prime residential development site or for snowboarding, cross country skiing, zipline, ATV, adventure park [or] glamping,” according to the listing. There are dilapidated buildings that can be renovated and an unfinished 12-unit condo complex.
There’s a row of wind turbines along the ridgeline of the mountain, but they aren’t part of the 500 acres that sold.
A year ago there was a deal with a different buyer but it fell apart due to a lack of financing. The prospective buyer wound up forfeiting $100,000 when the closing didn’t go through, Muroff said.
Muroff Hospitality Group represents independent and franchised hoteliers, restaurants, inn and resorts in the greater New York/New England region.