The Woodlands remains closed with no activity at site, no reopening plans reported

PLAINS TWP. — The last inspection of the closed Woodlands Inn & Resort was in January, and Jason Humenanski, owner of BHW Construction Consultation Services Inc. in Plains Township, said he has not heard from the owners since.

“There’s no update,” Humenanski said on Tuesday. “We have not been asked to go back for another inspection since January.”

Humenanski said as far as he knows, there have been no inquiries, no planning and apparently no work done since the January inspection. Humenanski said there were reports that the owner, Shree Neelkanth Realty LLC, was attempting to sell the property, but no acceptable offers were received.

Meanwhile, according to Luzerne County records, there are taxes owed on the property — approximately $247,500.

Humenanski speculated that the owners may be seeking investors to help pay to get the building repaired.

“I haven’t seen any activity there for months,” he said. “It’s anybody’s guess what’s going to happen there.”

However, Humenanski said he doubts The Woodlands will remain vacant forever.

“It’s a great location, and it always was an asset to the area,” he said. “I think somebody will want to get it repaired and reopened.”

Plains Township Commissioner Peter Biscontini offered a comment on the situation.

“The property owner does not seem to have any urgency to get back in business,” Biscontini said. “The longer it sits, the worse it will likely get. What a shame.”

Following the January inspection, it appeared that the once-popular hotel/restaurant/dance club was not out of the woods.

At the time, Humenanski said there was no timetable for when The Woodlands Inn & Resort would reopen its doors, which have been closed since Nov. 24, 2025.

“They don’t seem very motivated to get the repairs done,” Humenanski said in January. “They really need a construction company to get in there and go through the entire place.”

Humenanski said he inspected The Woodlands in January after the owners — Shree Neelkanth Realty — notified him that the repairs were completed.

Humenanski said that items cited during the initial inspection in November 2025 found that the facility’s fire alarm system, sprinkler system, and emergency exit signs required repair.

“It doesn’t look like they even tried,” Humenanski said after the January inspection.

Humenanski said he feels maintenance at the facility was very limited over the last 50-plus years.

“They told us all repairs were done,” Humenanski said in January. “But they didn’t even scratch the surface.”

The Woodlands Inn & Resort, once a destination for thousands of people every year, was shut down on Nov. 24, 2025, because the electricity for the building was cut off due to a lack of payment. It was restored a couple of days later.

Attempts to reach the owners were unsuccessful. Messages left were not returned on Tuesday.

A message on The Woodlands’ phone system said the number was “temporarily out of service.”

Shree Neelkanth Realty purchased the property for $8.4 million from Rokom Inc. in January 2022.

Woodlands history

The Woodlands Inn & Resort was founded in 1969 as The Treadway Inn by the Kornfeld family. The family owned and operated the facility for more than 50 years before selling it in 2022. Mark Kornfeld and his brother, Gary, opened the facility on a 20-acre plot of land alongside the Laurel Run stream. It began with 150 guest rooms and suites.

In 1979, the Kornfelds created the popular disco, The 25th Hour, which featured live music and served as a popular social hub in the area. Over the decades, the Woodlands expanded to include additional features and concepts, such as a multi-story tower in the 1980s and the Japanese restaurant Shogun. The nightclub was later renamed Club Evolution.

In January 2022, the Kornfeld family sold the Woodlands Inn & Resort to an investment group, Shree Neelkanth Realty LLC. The Kornfeld brothers — Rick, Ross, and Mitch — stayed on to manage the property under a new company, Valenfeld Hospitality Management.

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