For twenty-five years, the drive from a Suncadia driveway to a gallon of milk was the same drive: down Bullfrog, right on SR 903, past the golf course entrance, into Cle Elum or Roslyn for anything that wasn't room service. That trip is now optional. On June 19, Suncadia opened an 11-acre retail village steps from The Lodge, and the practical effect on people who already live here is smaller than the press releases suggest and larger than the tenant list makes it look.
The village is called Suncadia Social. It cost $18 million and sits inside a broader $40 million round of resort investment that Suncadia has tied to its 25th anniversary. The interesting question for a resident isn't whether it's a nice place to walk through on a Saturday. It's whether it shifts any of the routines you already have.
Who's actually behind the storefronts
Suncadia Social's tenant list reads like a Cle Elum and Roslyn who's-who rather than a resort operator's rolodex, which is the first thing worth noticing.
