In the Catskills, New Hope for the Return of Tourism
It’s the period before the borscht belt that informs Sims Foster, a co-founder of Foster Supply Hospitality,
which owns four small hotels in the more-rural western part of the county, where Mr. Foster grew up.
Of the 1,000 people who work at Resorts World, which is connected to an 18-story, 332-room hotel, about
600 are from Sullivan County, said Ryan Eller, the chief executive of Empire Resorts, the owner.
And yet, “there’s a certain different mood when you drive around the county,
from the average resident up into the business community,” Mr. Baez added.
Situated on a slice of the former Kutsher’s Hotel and Country Club, a popular borscht belt resort
that closed in 2013, Yo1 is just a piece of Mr. Chandra’s development plans for the huge property.
