Services: Resorts

Team

Chris Cushing, Principal and Director of Mountain Planning
Chris plays an integral role in continuing SE Group’s legacy, directing all aspects of our mountain planning services. Chris understands the business of mountain resorts, and the need for a seamless physical and operational interface between the on-mountain facilities, base area guest service facilities and four-season development. With an extensive international portfolio, Chris brings his passion for the mountains and over 25 years of professional experience to every project.

Ted Beeler, President and Director of Market and Economic Analysis
In addition to leading the growth and development of SE Group, Ted provides strategic oversight on a variety of client projects, ranging from visioning to market and financial feasibility studies, due diligence analysis and strategic planning. Ted brings his passion for the mountains coupled with his travel experiences to other worldwide resorts, in helping clients to discover and implement new ideas.

Claire Humber, Director of Resort Planning
Claire has been a part of the SE Group team for 20 years, and has led resort projects throughout the world. Claire is a ‘big picture’ strategic thinker, and balances her creative approach to planning and design with the practicality of project management and implementation.

Mark Hamelin, Director of Resort Design
Mark serves as lead designer on many of our nationally and internationally recognized projects.  Deriving inspiration from the site, Mark has the ability to quickly grasp a project’s vision, creating simple yet elegant solutions to highly complex land planning problems. His ability to communicate and collaborate with a wide variety of professional consultants and stake holders allows our design process to be interactive, unique and exciting.

Peter Williams, Senior Mountain Planner
Pete has been responsible for a variety of alpine facility plans throughout North America, Asia, and Europe. He has extensive experience in all aspects of mountain resort planning, including mountain resort design, resort capacity analysis, master plan production, map analysis, site evaluation, and field layout. As a project manager, Pete is responsible for overseeing the budgets, schedule, and staffing of numerous projects.

Expertise

Our Resort Master Planning and Design services range from broad-scale master plans for undeveloped pieces of property to detailed landscape architecture and construction administration. We have planned resorts on the sun-bathed beaches of the Mediterranean and amongst the glaciers of Alaska.

Ski Area Planning and Design is the historic cornerstone of SE Group. Our ski area designs, tested through market and economic feasibility studies, are based on detailed map work and thorough on-the-ground reconnaissance that allow us to capitalize on the unique features of each site.

The lands sitting at the toe of the ski slopes, on the beachfront, or at the epicenter of a view corridor hold the most value and help define a resort’s character. SE Group’s Resort Site Planning and Design team focus on these critical areas by providing long-range development strategy, site planning, ski in/ski out real estate design, building programming, and operations and circulation studies. We work with facilities ranging from day-use areas to large four-season destination resorts.

Our Market and Economic Analysis specialists provide strategic evaluations for the profitable development and operation of resort properties. Through our extensive experience in planning, designing and operating four-season resorts, we know what questions to ask and which studies to perform in order to help our clients make informed decisions about future opportunities.

SE Group always works from the basis that planning sets the stage for implementation. At Project Implementation, our signature designs are transformed into capital cost estimates, construction documentation, field layout of facilities, and detailed grading, surface water management and other implementation plans.

Our Resorts Services list.

Related Services

SE Group is a multi-disciplinary team of specialists, with a diversity of expertise and experience. Our Resorts team provides a wide range of services tailored specifically to the development of complex projects on challenging sites.

We work closely with our clients to develop projects that are sustainable, aesthetically compelling and create memorable environments that people are repeatedly drawn to. We achieve these results by listening carefully and developing design solutions that clearly articulate our client’s goals. Beneath the surface of these places is a solid base of market and financial analysis, environmental planning and site design, as well as a meticulous attention to scheduling and budget concerns.

We always work from the basis that planning sets the stage for implementation. Our Environment and Entitlement Solutions specialists provide strategic and innovative solutions for all facets of project assessment and permitting at the federal, state and local levels. When entitlements are in place and projects do move forward, our Landscape Architecture Studio provides exceptional detailed design and construction documentation of outdoor spaces, landscapes and recreational amenities.

Clients

We have a long and distinguished history of assisting clients in evaluating natural resource, recreation, and resort development opportunities for the purpose of creating context-sensitive designs for unique and sustainable projects. Since 1958 we have provided a wide range of services tailored specifically to the needs of four-season resort communities, ski areas, and public land management agencies throughout the world.

Our Resorts Client list.