From 2D Dreams to 130-MPH Reality

When we first stood on the property that would become Treasure Bay Resort, we didn’t have blueprints, a construction background, or even a clue where to start. What we did have was a sketch — a flat, two-dimensional drawing of what we imagined could exist here. That was it.

Three people. Zero design experience. Zero land development experience. Just a handful of ideas and the stubborn belief that we could make them real. We had a real hard and fast deadline approaching, and weren’t sure if we were going to get across the finish line.

Without an architect, we got scrappy. We hopped onto Fiverr and hired freelance designers from across the world to turn our sketches into something that looked like real plans. Those plans, while beautiful, weren’t yet buildable — so we scrambled, to find engineers with immediate availability, and that took a lot of phone calls to find. We needed civil engineers to figure out how the site itself should be shaped and drained (I had no idea what a civil engineer even did). Structural engineers to make sure every building was strong enough to handle the Oregon Coast’s winter storms — rated for wind gusts up to 130 miles per hour.

We learned on the fly. Every term was new, every permit process a mystery, and every meeting a crash course in a world we’d never worked in before. We didn’t have all the answers, but we kept forging ahead until the path forward started to take shape.

Now, looking out at the property, we see more than a resort in the making — we see the story of persistence. A place born out of late-night brainstorming sessions, trial-and-error problem-solving, and a whole lot of trust in the process.

Someday, guest will play the putting course, and gather in the picnic spaces without knowing all the twists and turns it took to get here. But for us, every gust of wind, every inch of gravel, and every nail hammered is part of a bigger story — one that began with nothing but a drawing and a dream.