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Page 10>B—THE BRUNSWICK BEACON. Thursday, Febniar>* $, 1987
THE CLUB HOUSE wUl be loca^rd Id this cleartog
behind these live oak trees. Survey^ the location with
Harlee H6wett (centerl are Mason Andeirson (left) and
Paul Dennis.
THE VIEW from the club house through the live oak
trees Includes the Intracoastal Waterway, the west end
of Long Beach, as well as the ocean and I.,ockwood Folly
Inlet
CENTERPIECE OF $5 MILLION PROJECT
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Holden Beach Area's First Golf Course Being Developed
BY EDDIE SWEATT
A 466-ecre tract of land near
Holden Beach is being transformed
into Lockwood Links, an 18-hole
championship golf course which is to
be the centerpiece of a 1000-unit
resort housing project
Construction oi the gulT course and
streets is underway at the site, with
two miles of shoreline, adjacent to
the lx>ckwood FoU>* River and the In
tracoastal Waterway ^ across from
Holden Beach.
Plans also call for construction to
begin by June IS on a luxury club
house, pro-shop and restaurant.
Included in the plans are provi
sions for 2 dry boat storage facility,
private .swimming pool and tennis
court
Cost of developing the raw land and
construction of the goU course, club
house, other amenities and sales of
fice will top $5 million. When all hous
ing units are built the total figure
will be from $75 to $100 million,
developers say.
The land on which the develmment
is to be built has been owned by the
Starling H. Hewett family for over 50
*ln 1932 my father, S. H.
Hewett, bought the land
from the Holden brothers,
founders of Holden Beach.
He realized Its unique
location and Its beauty.
“It has been a life-long
dream and desire of mine
that If and when
something was done with
the land that it would be
done In such a manner
that the natural beauty
would be reiained for all
to see and appreciate.
“In 1986, in an effort to
fulfill this life-long dream,
the Hewett family began a
search for someone who
shared our aspirations and
dreams in developing the
land. Alter long and
thorough consideration,
we settled on bringing in
Paul Dennis and
associates as partners
with their expertise in
development.
“We feet fortunate in
having found local
developers who share and
appreciate our wishes and
are carrying out onr
dreams most
satlsiactoiily.’*
—HARLEE HEWETT
years. His son, Harlee; lus two
grandsons, Huey P. and Dean
Hewett; and their mother, Dorothy
Brown, joined with developers Paul
Dennis, Mason Anderson, Tripp
Sloane and Bill Benton to form Chan
nel Side Corporation to develop the
property.
Developers describe the site as a
“virgin paradise" of live oak, pine,
dogwood and other native coastal
trees, which they say will be pro
tected as develc^ment takes place.
“The golf course is being designed
to protect and enhance the existing
tree cover. Specific trees are being
identified and the course designed to
fit their location," says developer
Paul Dennis who is supervising the
land clearing operation.
Streets are to follow the same pat
tern, with desirable trees being iden
tified, flagged and then the streets
built around them. Home construc
tion will be designed In the same
manner.
The entire project will be designed
to blend with and complement the
natural surroundings, developers
say.
Planning for the develupment has
been such that all federal, state and
county permits were approved
without change when submitted, ac
cording to the land planner.
The golf course is scheduled to be
completed by Nov. 1 of this year.
Willard Byrd & Associates of Atlanta
is the golf course architect and
overall land planner. Byrd is known
for his work at McGregor Downs in
Raleigh, Wexford Plantation at
Hilton Head. S.C., and over 100 other
championship golf courses from
Plnehursl and Myrtle Beach to
Florida, and 900 planned com
munities.
Lockwood Links developers say
Byrd is probably the most outstan
ding land planner/golf course ar
chitect In the Southeast
Dennis, one of the principals in
volve in the development of Sea
Trail Golf Links at Sunset Beach,
when asked to compare Lockwood
links with the Sea Trail course and
other renowned courses in
Brunswick County such as Marsh
Harbour and Oyster Bay, said he ex
pects Lockwood Links to be even
“better.”
Although southern Brunswick
County ha.9 a number of golf courses
in operation and several others either
in devel^ment or on the drawing
board, Lrokwood Links will be the
first in the Holden Beach area.
John Van of Atlanta will provide
the overall architectural theme as
v;ell as design the club house, sales
office, townhouses and patio homes.
Constniction of (he sales and ad
ministration office is scheduled to
begin In about 30 days and lot survey
ing and platting will begin sooner.
But one of the developers dis
counted an earlier news report that
plans include incorporation of the
resort community. “It’s possible in
the future that residents may want to
consider the village concept similar
to the form of town government at
Bald Head Island, but there has been
no discris.sions along these lines,**
said Anderson.
REVIEWING THE PLANS are, from left, Willard
Byrd, golf course architect end overall land planner;
developers Paul Dennis, Mason Anderson, and Bill Beo-
STAFfPHOroS avfODIE SWEATt
(on; and Terl R. Boyce, project coordinator for Utus
Corporation of N.C., sales and mariceting agents for the
project
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