First Look: Six Senses Grand Bahama

The Bahamas will quickly welcome a brand-new resort that guarantees to be its most luxurious and sustainable but. 

In September, Weller Growth Companions and Pegasus Capital Advisors unveiled the resort renderings and plans for the Six Senses Grand Bahama, a brand new $250 million improvement, 

“We’re excited to disclose the Six Senses Grand Bahama resort designs and masterplan,” Marc Weller, the founding companion and president of Weller Growth Companions, shared in an announcement offered to Journey + Leisure. “Now we have assembled a world-class design crew, with Olson Kundig engaged on the residences and Gensler on the resort. The architectural design and the general masterplan mirror the core values of our partnership with Six Senses and shared concentrate on wellness, sustainable design, and a reference to nature and the neighborhood.” 

In whole, the resort will embody some 50 acres of land, together with 70 resort villas, every decked out with Earth-toned decor to match the panorama, together with 28 residences for individuals who wish to transfer proper in and name it dwelling. 

The resort will embody all of the bells and whistles you’d count on of a Six Senses property, together with a signature Six Senses Spa, a number of eating venues, occasion areas, an oceanfront pool, and a non-public seashore membership. Although all of it, the corporate shared, is supposed to mix seamlessly into the luxurious environment within the again and the oceanfront view within the entrance. 

“The Six Senses Grand Bahama masterplan demonstrates our dedication to making a vibrant, year-round neighborhood, with the canals and waterway offering a novel model of the entrance porch,” Neil Jacobs, the CEO of Six Senses, added. “Integrating deliberately designed and effectively constructed buildings inside the majestic pure panorama establishes a framework for company to attach or disconnect, discover or escape, permit a sun-soaked lunch to tumble into dinner, and entry an entire vary of crafted experiences and wellness programming. 

And whereas it’ll undoubtedly be an exquisite place, the crew emphasised its dedication to sustainability, together with the truth that it is concentrating on LEED Silver certification (gained by incomes a particular variety of factors by way of recycling, water, and sustainable constructing practices) and that it is taking the initiative to make use of regionally sourced development supplies every time attainable, changing invasive species with native vegetation, together with restoring seashores affected by erosion. 

“The Six Senses Grand Bahama resort achieves a fancy steadiness of many essential parts,” David Darlington, principal regional hospitality chief at Gensler, defined. “Weaving sustainable, performance-driven, environment friendly structure along with the pure surroundings permits us to ship a brand new commonplace of luxurious, one which each heightens the expertise for the visitor whereas minimizing the lasting impression on the surroundings.”

Building is slated to start on the finish of 2024, with an anticipated opening in 2026. Keep tuned for progress at grandbahamaresidences.com.