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Michael Lee Design specializes in planning, designing, and producing resorts. We believe resorts are stories in three dimensions. Our goal is to immerse guests in those stories through the most tangible experiences an environment can offer. We are “experience producers” and that is what distinguishes us from architectural planners.

Michael Lee Design took part in the initial concept plans of Atlantis Resort, Phase II, located on Paradise Island, Bahamas. The owner had originally conceived of a Mediterranean Atlantis theme, but upon recommendation of MLD opted for an American version of the Atlantis story and employed a Mayan palette of visual icons. Our original sketches are shown along with photos of the finished project.

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The Alabama-Coushatta Tribe retained Michael Lee Design to plan and conceptually design a resort located on tribal lands close to Houston, Texas. It included various overnight accommodations, including an upscale destination RV park, hotel and indoor-outdoor waterpark, cultural center and various other entertainment and learning venues.

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Cherokee, North Carolina has been a tourist town for many years. With the success of Harrah’s Casino the community leaders decided to plan for the addition of other family oriented attractions which would add further tourist traffic and length of stay. Michael Lee Design was hired to review the existing attraction offerings, make recommendations for future planning and to begin the master planning of primary attraction zones within the community. We also offered preliminary opinions on the formation of a new School of the Arts to bolster arts education, to be sponsored, in part, by the Cherokee Preservation Foundation.

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Michael Lee Design in concert with and under the aegis of Apogee Attractions conceptualized and master planned what is the first destination resort of its kind in the entire eastern European region. This grand resort includes a theme park, indoor and outdoor waterparks, retail, dining & entertainment venues, three hotels and a nature preserve.

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Michael Lee, under the aegis of Water Ventures, Inc., provided initial master planning, concept design and consulting for what is to-date the only waterpark hotel in West Virginia. With over 250 rooms, a rolling-roof skylight and nearly 70,000 square feet of pools, water slides and attractions, Volcano Island is bound to be a family favorite for young and old alike.

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Crystal Springs is a resort for both summer and winter having six golf courses, a ski hill and over 4500 existing condo and hotel rooms. Michael Lee Design was retained to plan and design what will be one of the largest of hotel waterparks in the nation. Located beneath a greenhouse canopy of over 160,000 square feet, this atrium holds pools, slides and themed attractions all set in a lush tropical environment for year round enjoyment.

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Michael Lee headed a group of seasoned planners, designers and construction specialists in developing this four-seasons attraction-resort. With a base-camp village connected by funicular railway to four mountain villages, this year round resort was planned to handle some five million guests per year in ski related winter activities and in themed village summer attractions.

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Located on the island of Huahine in French Polynesia , and developed by Anderson Resorts International, Huahine Beach Resort has been planned to be the grandest of all premier resort-getaways in the entire South Pacific. Occupying the Valley of the Kings , this resort treats guests not only to the warmth and beauty of the islands, but also to the romance of ruins once occupied by the Kings of Tahiti. With some 1600 hotel rooms, including four and five-star accommodations, and an 18 hole championship golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones III, this resort has something for everyone. From the many restaurants, retail shops and spas, to the casino, and beach club Huahine Beach Resort is destined to be one the finest of resorts in the world.

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After Michael Lee Design completed the installation of Clearwater Key, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians were so confident in MLD’s services they continued to engage MLD in the master planning of their entire resort. MLD provided MBCI with various options to continue there economic growth.

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Star Mountain Resort was the first of many projects the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians hired Michael Lee Design to develop. MLD was contacted by MBCI to enhance the guest experience and add additional revenue producing gates to this popular southern destination. MLD conceptualized, designed, and master planned the Star Mountain Resort in concert with JKA. The resort included a theme park, water park, hotel, retail, dining and entertainment.

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