Ask three people who live in Las Campanas whether "the renovation" is finished, and you'll get three different answers, because they're each picturing a different building. The Log Cabin, the casual grill near the golf shop, already looks different than it did a couple of years ago. The Sunrise Course had its entire irrigation system torn out and replaced. But walk over to the dog park on a Friday evening, and Yappy Hour looks exactly the way it has for years. That gap between the club and the neighborhood is worth understanding if you live here, because they aren't renovating on the same clock, and in one important sense they aren't even the same organization spending the money.
What Imagine Tomorrow Has Already Changed
The project's name is Imagine Tomorrow, and it isn't a single remodel so much as a multi-year capital plan the club describes as fully funded, meaning the money comes from club reserves and financing rather than a special assessment tacked onto members' dues. According to the club's own general manager search materials, the first phase already delivered two changes members can see and feel: a redo of The Log Cabin, described in that same filing as a member-favorite dining space, and a complete replacement of the Sunrise Course's irrigation system, the kind of infrastructure work nobody notices until the fairways stop struggling through a dry August.
Behind the scenes, the initiative is run by a working group split into three teams, funding, communications, and master planning, and the club brought in the architecture firm PHX to help scope the work. Industry reporting on the project puts the total investment at roughly $20 million spread over five to six years. That figure gives some shape to what's actually happening: this isn't a facelift on one dining room. It's closer to a phased rebuild of the club's public-facing spaces stretched across the back half of this decade.
It also helps to know what's being rebuilt. The Hacienda Clubhouse itself is a 46,000-square-foot structure built from more than 70,000 adobe bricks, and it wasn't always member property. The club opened under developer ownership in 1991 and was turned over to its members debt-free in 2010, golf courses, clubhouse, fitness and spa facility, equestrian center, and maintenance buildings included. Imagine Tomorrow is the members' own money going back into an asset they've owned outright for over a decade, not developer capital chasing a sale.
What's Still Ahead
If Phase One was about food and turf, the next stretch of the plan is aimed at wellness. The same GM search materials list renovations to the Fitness Center, the spa, the salon, and the outdoor pools as part of the scope, alongside continued attention to member dining. None of the public materials attach a hard completion date to those phases, so the honest answer for a resident asking when their pool closes for work is still "watch the member communications," not "check a published calendar." That uncertainty is normal for a project moving through a five-to-six-year window, but it's worth naming instead of pretending a firm date exists when it doesn't.
For golfers, one more piece of context is worth knowing while the courses stay in daily rotation through all of this: the club currently lists the Sunset Course as Golf Digest's number one ranked course in New Mexico, with Sunrise holding a top-five spot in the state. That reputation is part of why the irrigation overhaul on Sunrise happened first. A course that ranked among the state's best can't afford to look tired while the rest of the plan catches up.
The Part of Las Campanas the Club Doesn't Touch
Here's the distinction that gets lost in most conversations about "what's happening at Las Campanas." The Club at Las Campanas and the neighborhood of Las Campanas are not the same legal entity, and membership in one has never required anything from the other. The club states plainly that there's no residence requirement to join, which means plenty of homeowners across the community's roughly two dozen named enclaves, Estates I through V, Park Estates, Black Mesa, Las Terrazas, and more, never carry a membership card at all. For those who do join, the fees aren't small: golf membership initiation runs around $150,000, social membership runs $75,000 to $100,000, and both carry monthly dues on top. But none of that spending, or the renovation it funds, touches the parts of daily life that belong to every homeowner regardless of club status.
| The Club (optional membership) | The Neighborhood (every homeowner) | |
|---|---|---|
| Governance | Member-owned since a 2010 debt-free turnover | Las Campanas Owners Association |
| Currently under renovation | Yes, Imagine Tomorrow, multi-year | No |
| Signature spaces | Hacienda Clubhouse, Sunrise and Sunset courses, Log Cabin | Sunset Park, the grassed dog park, community trail gates |
| How you pay for it | Initiation fee plus monthly dues | Included in HOA dues |
Sunset Park, the pocket park tucked inside the gates, hasn't changed. The dog park's weekly Yappy Hour hasn't changed. The Learning and Enrichment programming, cooking classes, wine pairings, local history talks the neighborhood runs for residents, hasn't changed either. And the trail gates that let riders and hikers walk straight out into the roughly 68,000 acres of the adjacent Caja del Rio, or into Diablo Canyon Recreation Area just to the west, are open on the same schedule they've always kept. None of that requires an invitation from the club's membership committee, and none of it is waiting on a construction crew.
Why the Distinction Is Worth Knowing Right Now
If you're a club member, the practical takeaway is to expect more temporarily closed spaces before Imagine Tomorrow wraps, since the fitness, spa, and pool phases haven't happened yet as of this writing. Plan a workout at home for a stretch, or check with the front desk before you assume the sauna is running. If you're not a member, and a real share of longtime owners here aren't, the entire renovation is background noise. Your Tuesday still starts the same way it always has: a walk to Sunset Park, a lap of the community trails, maybe a Friday evening at the dog park before dinner.
That split is easy to miss if you only read the club's own marketing, which understandably describes the neighborhood and the club as one continuous lifestyle. In practice it's two budgets, two boards, and right now, two very different paces of change. Knowing which one you're actually paying for, and which one you're getting for free simply by owning here, makes the next few years of dust and scaffolding a lot easier to read.
If you're weighing whether a home in Las Campanas fits your own rhythm, club member or not, Destinee Tran knows this neighborhood well enough to walk you through both sides of the gate. Let's Connect.
