Pompano Beach Club in Southampton is undergoing a multi-million dollar facelift for the 2006 season.

By the time the resort re-opens in March, it will include a new arboretum-style restaurant, 14 additional hotel rooms, a spa and game room with ocean views and a total of three ocean-side Jacuzzis.

Family owned and operated for almost 50 years, Pompano?s general manager, Larry Lamb, said that renovations seemed to take on a life of their own since the first wall was demolished at the end of November.

It is the first time in 26 years that the resort has been closed for the winter and with March being a busy month, Mr. Lamb is anxious that renovations be completed by the end of February.

?We?re not trying to be a condo complex, we?re continuing in the tradition of innkeepers by adding rooms,? he said.

The resort?s popular ?Flying Fish? building, which housed only two guestrooms, was torn down to be replaced by two new, oceanfront properties, to be called the ?Flying Fish? and ?Angel Fish?. Each building will contain eight oceanfront deluxe rooms which will increase the resort?s room inventory to 74 rooms from 60. The two developments are scheduled to be completed in May and June.

Mr. Lamb said because of the additional rooms, more space was needed for the restaurant so there will be a new oceanfront arboretum-style facility called ?Seashells?, which will offer an a la carte menu and can seat up to 60 people indoors and 25 outdoors. Because the family couldn?t agree on any one design for ?Seashells?, Atlanta-based Johnson Studios were hired to come up with a design.

The resort?s original restaurant, the ?Cedar Room?, will also have a new look with a raised ceiling giving the room a much more spacious feel.

Beneath the new ?Seashells? restaurant, an ocean-side spa and modern games room complex will be added. The resort?s ?Serenity? spa will be enlarged to include three oceanfront private treatment rooms, while a modern game room featuring PlayStation ?terminals? will be added for younger guests.

But what Mr. Lamb is most proud of is the 64 foot long, curved wall inside the Coral Reef Caf? and Pool Bar which will be transformed into a mosaic-tiled mural resembling an underwater coral reef. Designed by American artist, Doreen Mastandrea, the mural took two-and-half-years to complete.

Mr. Lamb is optimistic that the resort will reopen in March, despite the cement shortage, which he said could not have come at a worse time.