Silverton
New management took over at the Oregon Garden last month. Moonstone
Hotel Properties of Cambria, Calif., plans to add a 100-room
hotel to the grounds sometime next year, with a groundbreaking
getting under way this summer. Moonstone will take over for the
financially troubled nonprofit and assume the costs and
responsibilities of operating the garden and paying down the
garden’s debt with future proceeds. “Our long-term
goal is to help revitalize the Oregon Garden,” says Lynda
Gill, Moonstone’s director of operations. Moonstone owns
a network of 10 inns, most of them in California and many with
garden themes.
