Manhattan Beach Country Club sold for $73 million
The Manhattan Beach Country Club, which sold to Bay Club for $73 million. Photo courtesy Manhattan Beach Country Club The Manhattan Beach Country Club has been sold to Bay Club for $73 million in a deal that will also net the City of Manhattan Beach $730,000. The Bay Club Company, a luxury health club operator, originating in San Francisco, has been expanding regionally. It will take over operations of the Manhattan Country Club at the beginning of June. Little is likely to change at the club, which has been operated by owner Keith Brackpool and managing director Sara Neilson Sedlacek for the last 15 years. Over that span, the club has been thoroughly modernized — a former hotdog grill, for example, was upgraded to a full menu restaurant, and an outdated 400 sq. ft. gym has been expanded into a state-of-the-art fitness facility. Brackpool had planned to leave the club to his children, Sedlacek said, but the what the Bay Club offered both fit the direction he’d established for the Country Club and provided growth opportunities for employees. She said it will also provide members added value. “We realized a standalone club had less to offer employees and members than a larger…
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