Garden of Gods Club purchased

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO — An investment group headed by accounting executive Brenda Smith and health care executive Judy Mackey has acquired the Garden of the Gods Club and related facilities in a $10 million deal.

The agreement will return the high-profile Colorado Springs complex to local ownership for the first time in six years.

Garden of the Gods Club LLC, a joint venture of Palm Desert, Calif.-based developer Sunrise Co. and J. Thomas Schmidt LLC, put the club on the market for $14 million in June.

According to the Colorado Springs Gazette (http://tinyurl.com/nkzmfu4), the club has 1,500 members and includes 66 guest rooms, a 27-hole golf course, a 43,000-square-foot main building, a 21,000-square-foot golf clubhouse and a 7,500-square-foot recreation center around the Colorado Springs iconic rock formations.

Reported by:  The Associated Press