If you've been following the club's own updates this year, you've probably absorbed one big headline: Promontory got a new spa and a renovated clubhouse. Kelli Brown, now the club's Managing Director, put it in a single sentence when she described "the new Spa at Promontory and recently renovated Village Clubhouse" as one combined push toward better member wellness. It reads like one project. It isn't.
The gym you've been using since the Village Clubhouse reopened at the end of 2025 sits in one building. The ten-room spa with the hydrotherapy circuit and the cold plunge sits in another, inside the Nicklaus Clubhouse complex, roughly on the opposite side of a 7,200-acre property. If your Tuesday used to mean a workout followed by a quick massage in the same hallway, it doesn't work that way anymore. You're now choosing between two different wellness experiences in two different wings, and most members haven't fully sorted out which one does what.
The Village Got the Gym. The Nicklaus Wing Got the Spa.
The Village Clubhouse renovation that wrapped up at the end of 2025 was a fitness project first. New cardio and spin rooms went in downstairs, the weight room expanded, and the locker rooms got infrared saunas along with a full replacement of the equipment fleet. The old Hot Spot Cafe reopened as the Village Cafe, now serving breakfast, smoothies, and complimentary coffee and hot chocolate through the evening. There's also a small in-house option called the Village Spa, built for a Summit Sports Massage after a ski day or a loosening session before golf. It's convenient. It's also not the spa most of the recent press coverage has been describing.
That larger spa, called simply the Spa at Promontory, opened separately in the first months of 2026 inside Double Deer, an event-space expansion of the Nicklaus Clubhouse. It's a different scale of experience: ten dedicated treatment rooms, a relaxation lounge, a hydrotherapy circuit, a traditional steam room, dry sauna, UV sauna, oxygen therapy, and a cold plunge pool. This is the "world-class" wellness sanctuary the club has been promoting since early this year, and it has nothing to do with the fitness center you've been using at the Village since December.
Here's the split laid out plainly:
| Building | What's There | When It Opened |
|---|---|---|
| Village Clubhouse | Rebuilt fitness center, Village Cafe, small in-house Village Spa | End of 2025 |
| Nicklaus Clubhouse / Double Deer | The Spa at Promontory, ten treatment rooms plus hydrotherapy | Early 2026 |
| Design center (member homebuilding studio) | Custom and semi-custom finish selection with Promontory HOMES | January 2026 |
Three separate rollouts, three separate purposes, inside a stretch of property large enough that getting between them takes a shuttle or a golf cart, not a hallway walk.
The Same Split Shows Up at Dinner
Once you notice the pattern at the wellness buildings, it shows up again at the six restaurants scattered across the property. Sage, the modern Italian spot known for Chef Oliver's carrot cake, lives in the Hills Clubhouse next to the Par-3 course and its golf simulator bays. The Peak, Promontory's fine-dining destination for wagyu dumplings and omakase sushi under executive chef Ayoung Chang, is back at the Nicklaus Clubhouse, the same building as the new spa. The Hearth Grille, with its Wine Wall and fireside conversation bar, sits at the Pete Dye Clubhouse. The Shed Restaurant serves burgers and wood-fired pizza next to the bowling alley and the 500-seat amphitheater. The Beach Club leans into lobster rolls and fish tacos with a summer DJ set at the Beach Bar. And the Village Cafe covers the casual, quick-bite end of things back where the fitness center lives.
None of these six are centrally located. Each one is tied to whichever clubhouse it sits inside, which means your dinner choice on any given night has more to do with which wing of the property you're already in than with what you're craving.
Two People Are Now Running the Two Halves
The leadership change the club announced in February lines up with this same physical split, whether or not that was the intent. Kelli Brown, who has worked for the club and its developer Pivotal Group for 24 years, moved from General Manager to Managing Director. In her new role she continues to oversee development, construction, sales, legal, and finance, and she serves as the developer's representative to the Promontory Conservancy, the community's homeowners association. That's the growth and governance side of the operation.
Day-to-day club life now falls to Jonathan Fillman, the new General Manager, who came from Aspen Skiing Company's private club portfolio and a prior post running The Little Nell in Aspen. Fillman has direct oversight of food and beverage, golf, membership, and events, plus a role supporting the Promontory Foundation's annual fundraising efforts. One executive is steering where the property expands next. The other is running what members actually experience this week at the clubhouses that already exist.
What This Actually Means for Your Week
If you're trying to plan around all of this rather than just read about it, the practical breakdown looks like this:
- A full spa appointment, meaning treatments beyond a quick massage, now means heading to Double Deer at the Nicklaus Clubhouse, not the Village.
- Your regular workout and a fast recovery massage still live at the Village, along with the Village Cafe for something to eat afterward.
- Where you eat dinner is now mostly a function of which clubhouse you're already near rather than a single default choice.
- Anyone working with Promontory HOMES on a new build has a fourth stop entirely: the design center that opened in January, unrelated to fitness or spa services.
The Bigger Shift
What all of this adds up to is a property that's organizing itself around clubhouse nodes rather than one central hub. That's not necessarily a downside. It means the Village stays focused on daily fitness and family use, the Nicklaus wing becomes the destination for a longer wellness day, and each clubhouse develops its own character instead of trying to be everything at once. But it does mean the map in your head from a year ago needs an update, and the next time someone tells you "the new spa is at the clubhouse," it's worth asking which one.
If you're weighing how a home near the Village side compares to one closer to the Nicklaus wing, or you're simply curious how Promontory's layout affects daily life beyond the amenities press releases, Tara Vaught knows this property from the ground up. Let's Connect.
