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Specialties
Midwest Largest GLBT Resort & Entertainment Complex. Open year round. Hotel, Cottages, Suites, 6 bars, outdoor pool. Saugatuck/Douglas, MI
History
Established in 1981.
It’s not a boardroom, there’s no conference table or uncomfortable chairs and there are clearly no suits. It’s just another day in paradise. It’s Douglas, Michigan, a hot September day and three friends are unwinding after a day of moving furniture. Of course, there are the requisite margaritas and pizza underscoring the brainstorming and the abundance of laughter.
From this fun infused «What if?» backdrop would emerge a life altering idea. It was this setting, this day in 1998 when partners Mike Jones, Danny Esterline and Greg Tryzbinski came up with the idea to buy a gay bar.
Many dream but few dare and margaritas add the needed perspective. According to Jones, «We were at points in our lives where it just seemed right. Maybe you shouldn’t eat pizza, drink margaritas and try to plan your life, but you just never know what’s going to happen.»
Meet the Business Owner
Mike, Dan Greg J.
Business Owner
Jones, 45 is an Indiana native, who earned a hospitality degree from Purdue University, then lived in Chicago and worked at a design magazine before spreading his entrepreneurial wings. Esterline, 47 has a political background and serves as the «I can fix anything man.» Trzybinski, 50, comes from a banking background and takes care of everything financial. ”