A large standing-room-only crowd of more than 400 Williams Bay residents filled the Williams Bay High School lecture center and spilled out into the commons on Dec. 9 as the Williams Bay Village Board and Williams Bay Plan Commission held a joint meeting to consider amending the village’s 2023 Comprehensive Land Use Plan to pave the way for Chicago-based Topography Hospitality, LLC’s proposed redevelopment of Aurora University’s idled 137-acre George Williams College campus as The Preserve at Williams Bay, an update boutique resort development.
Chicago-based Topography Hospitality, LLC, a new boutique hospitality company, announced Jan. 9, 2024 that it had entered into a contract to purchase the satellite George Williams College campus of Aurora University, 350 Constance Blvd. in Williams Bay. Topography proposes repositioning the historic 137-acre site overlooking Geneva Lake as The Preserve at Williams Bay, which would include a 90-acre nature preserve, a retreat center and amphitheater, and a luxurious country inn. Topography has also expressed its commitment to reviving George Williams College’s popular Music by the Lake outdoor summer concert series, held annually from June-August at the campus’ lakeside Ferro Pavilion.
Williams Bay resident Jacquelyn “Rose” Romando hands out handmade protest signs to like-minded community members before the Dec. 9 joint meeting of the Williams Bay Village Board and Williams Bay Plan Commission at Williams Bay High School. Opposed to the proposed redevelopment of the idled 137-acre former George Williams College Campus as The Preserve at Williams Bay, an upscale commercial boutique resort, Romando brought “hundreds” of signs for distribution at the 5-hour meeting, which drew a standing-room-only crowd of more than 400 residents.
Lake Geneva Shore path: George Williams College to Williams Bay
Williams Bay resident Jacquelyn “Rose” Romando hands out handmade protest signs to like-minded community members before the Dec. 9 joint meeting of the Williams Bay Village Board and Williams Bay Plan Commission at Williams Bay High School. Opposed to the proposed redevelopment of the idled 137-acre former George Williams College Campus as The Preserve at Williams Bay, an upscale commercial boutique resort, Romando brought “hundreds” of signs for distribution at the 5-hour meeting, which drew a standing-room-only crowd of more than 400 residents.
A large standing-room-only crowd of more than 400 Williams Bay residents filled the Williams Bay High School lecture center and spilled out into the commons on Dec. 9 as the Williams Bay Village Board and Williams Bay Plan Commission held a joint meeting to consider amending the village’s 2023 Comprehensive Land Use Plan to pave the way for Chicago-based Topography Hospitality, LLC’s proposed redevelopment of Aurora University’s idled 137-acre George Williams College campus as The Preserve at Williams Bay, an update boutique resort development.
Chicago-based Topography Hospitality, LLC, a new boutique hospitality company, announced Jan. 9, 2024 that it had entered into a contract to purchase the satellite George Williams College campus of Aurora University, 350 Constance Blvd. in Williams Bay. Topography proposes repositioning the historic 137-acre site overlooking Geneva Lake as The Preserve at Williams Bay, which would include a 90-acre nature preserve, a retreat center and amphitheater, and a luxurious country inn. Topography has also expressed its commitment to reviving George Williams College’s popular Music by the Lake outdoor summer concert series, held annually from June-August at the campus’ lakeside Ferro Pavilion.
