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The VIP Country Club in New Rochelle has been sold for $20 million just weeks after the deal had collapsed in a contract dispute.
Westchester Shores Event Holdings Inc., which is affiliated with the Mata Amritanandamayi Center, or MA Center, in Castro Valley, California, is the new owner of the New Rochelle events center and beach and tennis club.
The MA Center owns the 10.5-acre property at 600 Davenport Ave. and Westchester Shores will run the business.
"We selected a buyer who is going to continue to operate the VIP exactly as it is," said Mike Morelli, the former president, who has been asked to stay on and run the business.
His family has operated the country club for 21 years and Morelli wants to see it continue for another 21. "We wanted to hold on to the legacy we built," he said.
The club is on Davenport Neck, a promontory jutting into New Rochelle Harbor that has been a popular site for beach clubs since the 1940s. Children whose parents brought them to the VIP 20 years ago now...