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Mountain Cascade Resort aims for summer opening (2)

Quality Inn is being transformed into Mountain Cascade Resort.

By Bill Moss, Published: May 28, 2016

There was something familiar about the surroundings when Roy Dickerson spoke to business leaders about a new hotel-resort in Hendersonville.

“I remember the old days of the Holidome and guess where we came to eat?” he said. “Clifton’s Cafeteria.”
The old Clifton’s Cafeteria, now the Chariot, is the setting for Business Morning Update, which invited Dickerson to describe the newest Sugarloaf Road hotel, the Mountain Cascade Resort.
Fun Depot owners David and Mary Beth Day bought the old Quality Inn in April and immediately went to work gutting the old motel. When it’s open this summer — the target date is Aug. 15 — the old motel will have been transformed into a 100-room hotel with a full-sized swimming pool with a waterslide and diving board and a giant hot tub.
“It will have adults on one side, the pool in the middle and kids on the other side,” Dickerson said. The Days are also planning a local craft beer and wine bar. They passed on putting in a restaurant, figuring that Hendersonville has plenty of good restaurants already. The owners “plan to be very involved,” Dickerson added. A space for conferences, weddings, banquets and other events will accommodate 300 people. The owners expect to hire 15 to 20 fulltime employees.
The renovation will turn “something old into something new without losing that classic feel that it has,” the Days’ son, Daniel, told the business gathering. “It’s going to be a place to come and enjoy and really feel that local aspect to it.”
The Days bought the 6.7-acre parcel with its 79,106 square feet of building space from Casey Schroader and Terry Schroader for $2.5 million. The Schroaders purchased the closed motel property in September 2013 for $875,000.