[2] Enterprise sought to establish her clubs without success for two years before she met the property developer Aby Rosen through a mutual friend.
[2] Enterprise then recruited researchers to find potential members before sending them a "marketing kit" with a book called "Good Life: A Prehistory of the Core Club" described by Warren St. James in the New York Times as being "filled with black and white photos of flappers, old America's Cup yachting photos and other images of the Jazz Age: a branding gimmick more fitting of a clothing company, perhaps, than a private club".
[2] A branch of CORE is scheduled to open in December 2025 on the Corso Giacomo Matteotti in Milan, Italy in a 40,000 square foot palazzo.
[1] Writing for Bloomberg News, James Tarmy described the CORE Club as a "safe berth" for its members on "their endless march" between American Express Centurion Lounges and conference rooms.
[2] Guy Trebay, writing in The New York Times in 2011 felt that the club's members had an "almost cartoonish relationship to conspicuous consumption and the unwavering conviction that Thorstein Veblen had it all wrong".
[5] The founder members included J. Christopher Burch, Millard S. Drexler, Ari Emanuel, Patricia Kluge, Aby Rosen, Steven Roth and Stephen A. Schwarzman and Terry Semel.
[2] Notable members of CORE have included financier Steven A. Cohen, the designer Kenneth Cole, philanthropist Beth Rudin DeWoody, the Commissioner of the National Football League Roger Goodell, businessman James F. McCann, Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold, financier Anthony Scaramucci and the Starbucks chairman and CEO Howard Schultz.
[5] In 2005 members included gallery owner Marianne Boesky, lawyer and civil rights activist Vernon Jordan, American footballer Dan Marino, tennis player John McEnroe, architect Richard Meier, and musicians Patty Smyth and Roger Waters.
[4] Trebay felt the decor of the club "revels in the shiny aura of the newly arrived" as opposed to the "well-waxed and cigar-scented havens burnished by custom and softened by wear" with "... overstuffed armchairs squared off at the perimeter of Oriental rugs, private humidors and afternoon teas" of the traditional member's clubs of New York's social elite.