(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Cass County Board of Supervisors, Tuesday morning, received a presentation from Aaron Sindt, from Lyman, with regard to an economic development project for an area near Lyman, that would serve as an Adult-only Retreat with cabins. Currently, he has a building pad down and a pond on the property. Other ponds will be added.

After a party check’s-in, they will be given a code and given your options.

Sindt said the plan is to build six cabins around the ponds. The fully-furnished cabins will be around 800 square feet, each.

Your food will already be in the refrigerator, ready to go, along with instructions on how to cook it. Outside the cabins will be a high end grilling area with contact information for local cattle and hog producers if a guest really likes the quality of those locally-sourced products they’re grilling.

A natural spring will supply water to the cabins. He said he wants the retreat to be a place where anyone 21 and older can get away for a night and have a high-end experience where everything is included and you can go home the next day without any problems. Along with the cabins, he wants to build an event-center of sorts, for custom farm-to-table events, small class reunions, small family events, work building seminars, etc.

He hopes to have the Adult Retreat open by the Spring of 2023. Sindt said he looked into some grant opportunities to help with funding the project, but acknowledged it’s not easy to find anything for unincorporated cities. He wasn’t asking for funds when he spoke to the Board on Tuesday. Sindt just wanted to show them his plans and for them to keep him in mind for any
Supervisor Steve Green told Sindt that they do have a tax rebate program available for economic development projects in the unincorporated parts of the county.