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Margaritaville Vacation Club

Seventy poolside units renovated in five months, with the resort open the whole time.

Seventy units is a large share of a resort's sellable inventory. That number sets the whole problem.

Take all seventy offline at once and the resort stops earning. Take them one at a time and the job runs for years. The work had to sit between those two, moving fast enough to finish in a season and slow enough that the resort kept its doors open and its guests in rooms.

There was a second line of difficulty. The scope covered the poolside buildings inside and out, so interior fit-out and exterior work landed on the same buildings in the same window. Those two trades get in each other's way if nobody is holding the sequence.

And across all seventy units, one standard. On a full-inventory renovation there is no such thing as a room that does not matter. A guest booking next season does not know which unit they will get.

Scope

What we did

3 items of scope

Stabilis was general contractor for the full poolside renovation at Margaritaville Vacation Club on St. Thomas.

• 01Renovated all 70 poolside units, the complete poolside inventory
• 02Interior renovation of the units, the finishes guests live with
• 03Exterior work on the poolside buildings, delivered as part of the same program

One general contractor, one specification

Stabilis held the contract and ran a single room standard across all seventy units. Unit one and unit seventy were built to the same spec, by the same team, to the same finish.

Phased so the resort kept operating

The work moved through the poolside inventory in stages rather than opening all seventy units at once. The resort stayed open and operating for the full five months.

Interior and exterior as one program

Rather than running two separate jobs on the same buildings, we sequenced the inside and outside work together, so each building finished complete instead of waiting on a second pass.

Island supply planned into the schedule

Seventy units of fittings and finishes cross water to reach St. Thomas. Procurement, freight, and site delivery were part of the plan from day one, which is what makes a five-month window hold on an island.