Jesuit "Cloisters on the Platte" Retreat House is now complete--KMTV 3 News (Jul 13 2018)

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The magazine for Jesuit Creighton University has this to say : https://www.creighton.edu/creightonmagazine/2018smrfeatureinvestinginfaith/
" The magnificent Cloisters on the Platte opened in July, offering St. Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises for up to 80 retreatants on 47 retreat weekends each year.
It’s a deeply personal project that has the self-made billionaire helping others invest in their relationship with God to amass spiritual riches.
The 1968 Creighton(Jesuit) graduate (BA, economics) and co-founder of TD Ameritrade constructed the multi-million dollar secluded retreat center amid 936 acres of rolling hills hugging the Platte River between Omaha and Lincoln. Construction lasted three years and Ricketts footed the entire bill (the cost has not been disclosed). He only asks retreatants for a goodwill donation.
Cloisters on the Platte becomes the 28th Jesuit retreat center in the United States, but the first built since the 1940s. It features guest lodges with private bedrooms and bathrooms for each retreatant, a retreat center building, courtyard and chapel. Guests park in an underground garage, then take a shuttle to the main campus. Different architects designed each of the lodges and the retreat house. The chapel was designed by Leo A Daly — the 100-year-old, internationally recognized Omaha firm that was founded by 1911 Creighton graduate Leo A. Daly Sr. The firm also designed St. Margaret Mary Church, which Ricketts attends when in Omaha (he lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming).
The grounds — some of which once was home to a ski resort — will offer retreatants plenty of time for contemplative strolls with two lakes, trails and a Stations of the Cross walk that spans roughly 2,500 feet (the length Jesus is said to have walked in Jerusalem). The 14-station masterpiece features 60 7-foot-tall figures designed by sculptors from across the country and a 140-foot pedestrian bridge through the trees.
“It’s been a huge job,” says Ricketts, pointing out that it involved 45 subcontractors. The son of a carpenter, Ricketts received weekly construction updates from project manager Kurt Halvorson, including video taken by drones.
Ricketts used two principles to guide the project. First was to create a quiet environment “really needed for contemplation and meditation.” Second, he “wanted these facilities to last for hundreds of years” and with a timeless design.
“I think we have achieved both,” Ricketts says. “The degree of satisfaction I have and the joy I have in seeing it really come to fruition from the dream I had 20 years ago is really quite exciting and satisfying to me.”"