From the Motor City to the Sands of Ormond Beach: How One Owner-Turned-Board-Member Found His Resort’ s Future
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From the Motor City to the Sands of Ormond Beach: How One Owner-Turned-Board-Member Found His Resort’ s Future
Playing in the pool at Outrigger Beach Club 2025.
By: Shep Altshuler, Publisher
There’ s a particular kind of loyalty that only time can build. For Patrick Osterman, it started with a piece of paper- a promotional mailer that landed in his mailbox in the spring of 1987. Nearly four decades later, it ended with Osterman on the board of directors of the very resort that mailer had advertised- where he now faced one of the most consequential decisions in the property’ s history. That journey, from curious owner to committed steward, is a story worth telling.
Life Built on Craft and Curiosity
Osterman grew up in the Detroit area, a city that has always rewarded people who learn by doing. He graduated from high school in 1976 and, rather than following the conventional path to a four-year degree, he went to work. He took targeted college courses. He earned certifications. He paid attention.
Somewhere along the way, without the framed credential, he became an electrical engineer- working on high-profile automotive programs at General Motors, including years on the Corvette design team.
“ Most of the peers I worked with did have their degree,” Osterman says,“ but it didn’ t seem to hold me back.”
That same self-taught instinct carried into photography. Inspired by his older brother, who sold him his first camera, Osterman taught himself the craft and eventually built a company- Midwest Media, Inc.- that photographed weddings and sporting events and, eventually, evolved into a television production company.
He shot over a million stop-action images, was published in magazines serving the U. S. Figure Skating Association and other organizations, and even produced more than a hundred television episodes. In 2004, he received a regional Emmy nomination for his work on the Miss MichiganUSA pageant.
He’ s a man who doesn’ t wait for permission to become competent.
Jay & Tina, Tom & Nikki, Ida & Pat at the closed OBC, after hurricane passed.
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