Yellowstone Club - an indoor ski and golf club for billionaires

Yellowstone Club - the world's only indoor ski and golf club for billionaires, in the south-western state of Montana, and takes about 5, 5 thousand. Acres. One of the members is the founder of Microsoft - Bill Gates. All buildings Yellowstone Club - it's comfortable wooden villas. The room at the resort range from $ 5 million to $ 16 million ...





Yellowstone Club history began in 1999. Its founder became a lumberman and his wife Tim Bliksset Edroy. In 1991, Tim Blikset laid out 19 million dollars for a plot of land of 56 hectares close to Yellowstone National Park. Then billionaire traded land for 5, 5 acres in Montana, which was built Yellowstone Club, and a number of other facilities. It is also the most expensive house in the world - the estate of Tim Bliksseta, which he estimated at $ 167 million.



At this point in Yellowstone Clubvozvoditsya house of wood and stone area of ​​4900 square meters, which will take almost 65 hectares of land.
The project was designed by the house locator Jerry (Jerry Locati), at this resort for his design ideas have already built 35 houses. The mansion will have ten rooms furnished and stocked wine cellar. The house is planned so that the special climbing wall in one of the rooms cleaned and, if desired, converted into a charming courtyard with a home cinema and a swimming pool.



The cost of all large-scale project was $ 40 million, not including the cost of land. Above the house employs a team of workers, whose number is 10 times higher than required for a conventional house. While only 70% built home, it is planned to finish within 14-15 months.









56-year-old billionaire Tim Blikset - comes from a large family of Norwegian immigrants. His career began Blikset packer in the vegetable store. But successful investments in the forest and the ground state of Montana in the 26 years have brought him millions, and later brought to the list of world's richest people. According to Forbes, is now his condition is 1, 2 billion, which defines it at 322 in the ranking of world's richest people.





Unfortunately, to date, due to the financial crisis that hit and the most impoverished populations, Yellowstone Club is bankrupt. His debts amounted to $ 343 million. Tim Blikset estimates the project at $ 155 million - is one of the most expensive wooden houses in the world! This price also includes a private golf course and designed by Bliksetom ski slope, which can be reached by a special lift in the form of a gondola.



Source: www.yellowstoneclub.com

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