Sandals eyes new resort purchase

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October 13, 2010

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

Sandals is eyeing the purchase of another Exuma-based resort from receivership, this time the $110 million Grand Isle Villas Resort, Tribune Business can reveal, the situation having caused "immediate panic" and a "total sense of shock" on the island.

The all-inclusive resort chain would be an obvious purchaser of the 78-unit property, given that it sits at the heart of the Emerald Bay resort, which Sandals purchased from a different set of receivers in late 2009 for around $25 million.

"I believe Sandals would be very, very interested," one source told Tribune Business yesterday. This newspaper understands that the resort ch ...

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News date : 10/13/2010    Category : Tribune Stories

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