Ever want to live where you vacation or vacation where you live? Ritz-Carlton is counting on that for their newest project, Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain. The project will be the luxury hotel company’s largest branded resort/residential community in the continental U.S. and will be comprised of a 250-room golf and spa resort along with 320 single-family residences.

The development, set outside of Tucson, Arizona in the town of Marana, will feature a $60 million dollar golf club with twenty-seven holes and a clubhouse complex, opening in late 2008 with an additional 9 holes planned for 2010. Tailored to host the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship in February of 2009, the Jack Nicklaus design will still emphasize playability.

“If I can design The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Dove Mountain to take advantage of its spectacular high desert setting and beautiful vistas, while integrating solid strategy and good, fair golf shots, then I’ve done what should be done,” said Nicklaus.

On the course, Ritz-Carlton is extending their standard of service to a Caddie Concierge program in which a foursome’s caddie will go so far as to schedule or reschedule dinner and spa reservations for the golfers. In addition to the Nicklaus course the complex will feature a pool, tennis courts, fitness center, double-ended practice facility and dining venues.

“The hotel, golf club and residences are all designed with authentic Southwestern architecture and are carefully sited into the dramatic Sonoran Desert landscape. The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain will be like nothing else in the world,” said Casey Bolinger, founder of Greenbrier Southwest Corporation, which along with Cottonwood Properties has teamed with Ritz-Carlton to develop the project.

For homes that will rival a stay at one of Ritz-Carlton’s hotels (with services ranging from concierges to personalized home management) expect to pay between $1.5 and $3 million.