Grand Legacy Club Partnerships
Grand Legacy Club's business model was to own a portfolio of vacation homes, a fleet of private jets, and a collection of exotic automobiles all available and co-owned by club members.
Planning to take care the jet and auto aspect of club membership internally, often areas that most other destination clubs outsource through extensive partnership networks, Grand Legacy didn't publish any partnerships or strategic alliances.
Although it did not publish any partnerships, it appears that they were using, or planning on using, a charter jet company, only to enter into a legal scuffle. Jet 1 Charter Inc. was sued by Grand Legacy Club, alleging that charter company was fraudulently leasing its plane to the club. Scott Phillips, Jet 1's owner, called the lawsuit a contractual dispute and that Grand Legacy had not paid its bills, going as far as calling the operation a "smoke and mirrors routine to lure investors."
Despite publishing that "all club facilities and assets are owned by the Club without any debt," it appears that Grand Legacy was at a minimum leasing a portion of their jet access.
Ultimately, Grand Legacy Club never managed to garner enough interest for the club to continue and quickly ceased operations before making significant headway on their 280 member goal.
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