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The revival of a long-closed community ski hill as an intimate four-season community: a boutique lodge, ridge residences, and dedicated employee housing. Explore the full masterplan →
DEK Builds began with a simple promise: what we say is what we deliver. No fine print, no passing blame — just work we'd put our own name on.
That handshake principle still runs everything. As we've grown from homes into hotels and resorts, and from building into developing and investing, the standard hasn't moved. We take on projects we'd be proud to own ourselves — and often, we do.
"A new chapter in residential building — grounded in the same handshake principle we've always worked by."
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A long-shuttered community ski hill, reborn as an intimate four-season mountain community — lodging, residences, and a real place to live for the people who run it.
An 88-acre mountain site in the Northeastern United States. Exact location shared with qualified parties under NDA.
Northwind Mountain begins with a piece of history. The site is an 88-acre mountain that was, for decades, a beloved community ski hill — a small, lift-served slope where a whole region first learned to ski, before it quietly closed and the lifts went still. In the original base building, a wall of skis, boots, and poles still hangs exactly where it was left.
DEK Builds is bringing the mountain back — not as a sprawling mega-resort, but as something smaller and more durable: an intimate, four-season mountain community. A boutique lodge at the base. A handful of residences along the ridge. Dedicated housing for the people who make the place run. And a summit that, on a clear day, gives up 180 degrees of view.
It is a project that fits the way DEK Builds works — designer, builder, developer, and investor under one roof, carrying a place from first sketch to finished community, and standing behind it as a long-term owner.
The plan keeps the mountain as the centerpiece — trails and lift on the slope, the base village below, homes on the lower shoulder, and the team housed close by.
One chairlift, three ski trails and a tubing hill, snowmaking, and a network of four-season trails.
A 36-key boutique hotel anchoring a compact, walkable base village.
16 for-sale residences along the lower shoulder, with trail and view access.
30 beds of dedicated workforce housing, reusing the historic base building.
A place to stay, a place to own, and a place for the team to live — designed together in one architectural language.
An intimate mountain hotel built of timber and stone, sized to feel personal rather than corporate. Ski-in, ski-out at the base village, with a restaurant, an après-ski bar, a small spa, and gathering spaces that work just as hard in summer as in winter.
A small collection of for-sale mountain homes set into the lower ridge, designed in the same architectural language as the lodge. The site's residential subdivision zoning makes them possible; the trails and the summit views make them special.
A resort is only as good as the team behind it — and that team needs a place to live. The Employee Village provides dedicated, attainable housing for year-round and seasonal staff, beginning with the adaptive reuse of the historic base building and adding a cluster of new cottages around a shared green.
Each phase stands on its own and funds the next — the mountain opens early, the lodge and homes follow.
Site work and utilities, restoration of the lift and trails, snowmaking, and the reopening of a boutique ski and tubing operation. The historic base building is adaptively reused as the first employee housing.
Construction of the 36-key lodge and the walkable base village — restaurant, bar, spa, and the arrival experience for guests.
Delivery of the 16 for-sale residences along the lower ridge, completing the year-round community.
Winter: skiing, tubing, snowshoeing. Spring through fall: hiking, mountain biking, weddings and events, and leaf season at the summit.
Whether you want to own on the ridge, stay for opening season, or invest in the project, tell us where you fit and we'll keep you close to the news.
Be first in line for the 16 Ridge Homes. Join the list for floor plans, pricing, and release dates as each one comes to market.
Be there for opening season. Receive lodge news, trail-opening dates, and founding-guest offers before anyone else.
Review the opportunity. Request the investment summary and access to the project data room under NDA.