MMI Hospitality Group has acquired the Mission Inn Resort & Club, a meeting and golf destination resort in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla., from the Beucher family. The purchase price has not been disclosed.
The MMI leadership team will act as both owner and operator of the resort through its hotel management division, MMI Hotel Group.
Mission Inn Resort & Club, a 500-acre development with 176 hotel rooms, two golf courses, three restaurants, a spa and more than 30,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor event space, is located in Central Florida’s Lake County, 35 minutes from Orlando.
“As a family-owned and operated business, this particular property caught our attention," President and CEO Micajah Sturdivant said in a statement. "We’re grateful to have forged this relationship with a like-minded family business that shares many of the same values. With the purchase of this cherished resort, we hope to continue the legacy set forth in Lake County by the Beucher family by expanding on the unique attributes of Central Florida.”
Mission Inn Resort, originally called the Floridian Country Club, was purchased by Illinois native Nick Beucher in 1964 from William J. Howey. Howey commissioned a golf course to be built alongside the existing inn to create incentive and encourage growth. The property fell into disrepair until Beucher, seeing an ad in the Wall Street Journal, purchased the club. Multiple generations of the Beucher family would see the resort through several expansions and renovations throughout the past five decades and were still actively involved in management upon acquisition.
Plans are underway for phased property enhancements at the resort that will begin in early 2023.