Cedar Knob Nexus · $1.5M Bridge · Glamping + Studio + Events System

🏕️ 15 Domes + Event Platform 🎙️ Mobile Studio Income 🧘 Retreats + Workshops + Weddings 💸 Debt Service $180K/yr (Month 13+) 🔁 Integrated Bridge System

Cedar Knob Nexus · $1.5M PIK Bridge

Glamping + Mobile Studio + Events / Retreats System · Integrated Operating Model

The $1.5M bridge is structured as a complete operating platform rather than a single-use lodging project. The dome deployment creates the guest housing layer, the 15m event dome and 8m bunkhouse create the gathering and staffing layer, and the mobile studio adds a year-round content, licensing, and workshop revenue layer. This allows Walnut Hills / Cedar Knob Nexus to support hospitality, retreats, weddings, writer intensives, yoga programming, and AI filming workshops within one conservative bridge model.

$14K–$16K

Weekly PGI Ramp

$15K → $55K

Event NOI Ramp Y1–Y5

$15K/yr

Mobile Studio Annual Base

1.98x → 2.47x

DSCR with full system

🧩 Entire System Overviewhow the bridge works as one operating platform

Lodging Layer

15 geodesic domes generate the primary base hospitality income and create the overnight capacity that supports both leisure stays and destination-based programming.

Event Layer

The 15m event dome functions as the gathering hub for weddings, writer retreats, yoga events, AI workshops, and small group rentals.

Overflow / Staff Layer

The 8m bunkhouse supports event staff, facilitators, overflow guests, and operational flexibility for multi-day retreat programming.

Studio Layer

The mobile studio supports licensing, content development, production services, and on-site creative workshop activity that extends beyond standard lodging revenue.

✅ System logic: domes provide sleeping capacity, the event dome provides programmable gathering space, the bunkhouse supports staffing and overflow, and the mobile studio creates both revenue and differentiated programming. This is what turns the bridge into a multi-channel operating asset instead of a simple glamping site.

🏕️ Glamping Operating Modelbase lodging engine

Metric	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Year 4	Year 5
Average Occupancy	50% blended	55%	57%	58%	60%
Weekly PGI	$3,150 partial	$14,000	$15,000	$15,400	$16,000
Annual Gross Revenue	$163,800	$728,000	$780,000	$800,800	$832,000
Expenses (55%)	$90,090	$400,400	$429,000	$440,440	$457,600
Glamping NOI	$73,710	$327,600	$351,000	$360,360	$374,400

🎪 Events / Retreats / Workshops Revenue Layerenabled by event dome + bunkhouse

Metric	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Year 4	Year 5
Programming Focus	Pilot events	Retreat ramp	Workshops + weddings	Repeat programming	Stabilized event base
Illustrative Uses	Writer retreats, yoga	Writer + wellness	AI filming + weddings	Multi-format events	Recurring calendar
Annual Event / Retreat NOI	$15,000	$25,000	$35,000	$45,000	$55,000

📌 Event layer logic: this is a modest underwriting path for writer retreats, yoga and wellness weekends, AI filming workshops, and intimate weddings. The 15m event dome and 8m bunkhouse are already included inside the broader dome/event deployment budget, so this layer monetizes infrastructure already inside the bridge allocation.

🎙️ Mobile Studio Revenue Layercontent + licensing + production support

Studio Income Stream	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Year 4	Year 5
Mobile Studio / Content Licensing	$0 (development)	$15,000	$15,000	$15,000	$15,000
Primary Function	Buildout + launch	Licensing / service base	Workshop support	Recurring content value	Ongoing buffer

🎬 Studio role: the mobile studio supports the debt service directly, but also reinforces the retreat and workshop model by providing production capability for AI filmmaking intensives, creative residencies, and branded content experiences.

💰 Combined Cash Flow · Entire Systemglamping + events + studio

Year	Glamping NOI	Events / Retreats NOI	Mobile Studio	Total Income	Annual Debt Service	Net Cash Flow After Debt	DSCR
Year 1	$73,710	$15,000	$0	$88,710	$0 (PIK)	$88,710	—
Year 2	$327,600	$25,000	$15,000	$367,600	$180,000	$187,600	2.04x
Year 3	$351,000	$35,000	$15,000	$401,000	$180,000	$221,000	2.23x
Year 4	$360,360	$45,000	$15,000	$420,360	$180,000	$240,360	2.34x
Year 5	$374,400	$55,000	$15,000	$444,400	$180,000	$264,400	2.47x

✅ Debt coverage improves materially when modeled as the full system: lodging supplies the base income, events and retreats add programmed upside, and the mobile studio contributes a recurring content/licensing buffer. This is the integrated operating story the bridge is actually funding.

🏦 Bridge Terms + Integrated Use of Proceeds

Allocation	Amount	Purpose
Glamping + Events System	$500,000	15 domes, 15m event dome, 8m bunkhouse for staff/overflow, site prep, utilities, furnishings, and activation infrastructure
Refinance / Debt Retirement	$800,000	Retire existing obligations and simplify the capital stack
Mobile Studio & Book Tour	$200,000	Buildout of mobile studio, licensing infrastructure, content launch, and operating reserve

🧭 Use-of-proceeds logic: the bridge creates a complete income-producing campus with overnight inventory, event capacity, overflow/staff housing, and creative production infrastructure. That combination is what supports recurring hospitality income plus retreat, workshop, and content revenue.

🚪 Exit Strategy

Path	Timeline	Description
1. DSCR / Permanent Refinance	Months 18–24	Supported by combined stabilized operating income from glamping, events, retreats, and studio activity.
2. Asset-Secured Takeout	Months 12–18	Conservative collateral plus operating asset value supports bridge retirement.
3. Equity Syndication / Recap	Months 12–24	Recap the stabilized operating system as a differentiated boutique destination asset.

🔗 Data Room & Documents

📄 Business Plan ckn.world/whblbp

🎬 Pitch Deck ckn.world/whbld

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