The project has been in the works for more than three years and has undergone a significant design change since its inception. The current plan calls for a 120-room hotel, a 26,000-sf spa, 11,000 sf of meeting space and a 160-seat restaurant. About 75% of the property will be reserved as open space.

Traffic generation is projected to average 694 trips per-day based on an 84% occupancy rate, as detailed in a November Loudoun County Department of Planning report. The County signed off on the developer's special exception application to bypass what would have been a limit of 600 daily trips. "The local businesses will benefit from the added tourism traffic and service needs of the resort," Planning Department official conclude in the report. "The resort will [also] offer local employment opportunities."

Given that 254 acres of the 341-acre property are officially located in Loudoun County, the town's officials must sign off on the land's annexation into Middleburg. The city has tentatively agreed to the annexation on the condition that Salamander Hospitality develops a $4-million wastewater treatment facility. If all goes as planned the resort will open its doors sometime in 2008.