Project Update

Haig Point Stewardship Committee Report to Members
No. 4, June 30th, 2026

Tangible Progress. This is our fourth monthly report. In our first three messages, we communicated about activities, plans, targets and efforts to get teams in place. This month, we report on more tangible progress as efforts come to fruition: (1) selection, approval, and contracting with a project manager for Haig Point’s Harmony Project; (2) selection, approval, and contracting with a project architect for the Wellness Center and Pickleball Courts; (3) contracting with the golf course architect and the contractor for Osprey and Signature work over the next three years; (4) data about member assessments, including summary information about payment frequency selection and collections to date; and (5) perhaps best of all, the start of physical work as Haig Point begins to prepare for the first phase (Osprey) of golf course work

Meet Project Harmony’s Project Manager

After the detailed and competitive selection process described in previous monthly reports, the Stewardship Committee recommended, and the Board approved a project manager, who will report to the Stewardship Committee and the Board, and act as the owner’s representative for Haig Point for Project Harmony. A detailed contract was negotiated, then reviewed by our outside legal counsel, who made recommendations that were fully implemented. Our Project Manager will be William (“Bill”) Herman, Principal of Urban Realty Advisors, LLC, John’s Island, SC.

Bill has decades of experience in real estate development services and project management. Just since 2019, he has provided project management for projects including the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Institute, the Museum of Illusions (Washington, D.C.), the renovation of the Norwegian Embassy, and a 100-room boutique hotel. Originally trained as an architect (Bachelor of Architecture, Cornell), he also served in the Naval Civil Engineer Corps as officer in charge of an 89-person construction group. He co-founded his current company, and has primary responsibility for real estate development services activities, including architectural and design implementation, and development and construction management of commercial, multifamily and hotel properties.

As project manager, Bill will be responsible for a long list of specific oversight, coordination and reporting functions, and will be the eyes and ears of the Stewardship Committee, the Board and by extension, the membership as owners of this work. The project management contract is for $452,000 spread over the 42-month period of the projects, with more time and work anticipated to be spent on Wellness/Pickleball, given its less developed current status and higher level of complexity in relation to available in-house expertise and experience we have available on the golf side. This cost is well within market for services of this type, particularly for someone as experienced as Bill.

Meet Project Harmony’s Project Architect for Wellness/Pickleball

Similarly, after the competitive selection process we’ve previously described, we recommended and the Board approved a project architect for the Wellness Center/Pickleball Courts. We negotiated a contract, obtained legal review by outside counsel, whose advice we implemented. Our project architect for Wellness/Pickleball will be Pearce Scott Architects. Their team will be led by Principal Pearce Scott.

Drawing Out Your Imagination

Founded in 2013, and based in nearby Old Town Bluffton, SC, Pearce Scott characterizes itself as a Lowcountry studio creating architecture shaped by its setting, its purpose, and the people who use it. They have deep familiarity with Haig Point—built through years of custom residential work on Daufuskie Island—giving them firsthand understanding of the community’s architecture, landscape, and the expectations of its membership. They intend to pair that local knowledge with a collaborative, listening-first process to deliver a Wellness Center that “will feel like a natural, lasting part of the club.” In our interview process, they were the unanimous choice of our six-member interview team without regard to cost, and in the competitive bid process they were also the low bidder. The Pearce Scott contract, which includes architectural design, structural engineering, MEP engineering and interior design and coordination is for $316,000.

Golf Architect and Golf Renovation Contractor Contracts

As you know, Rees Jones Architects, the original designers, was selected as architect for the Project Harmony golf restoration before the Project Harmony vote. A contract amendment has now been approved and signed for their work over the life of the three-phase golf project. This Project Harmony cost amount for their services will be 10% of the construction cost of certain portions of the golf course work to be paid over the three years of renovation. The total amount is expected to be $859,298.

Haig Point

To implement Rees Jones design work, following a competitive bidding and evaluation process led by the Golf and Greens Committee before creation of the Stewardship Committee, national golf contracting firm Duininck, Inc. was selected as the contractor for golf course renovation. See their portfolio of course work here. A contract with Duininck has now been negotiated (with input from the Stewardship Committee), approved and signed. It is in the amount of $8,583,190.75.

Visible Work
Has Now Begun!

If you’ve been on the Osprey Course recently, you’ve probably noticed a great deal of work done to clear underbrush. This is part of the work Haig Point is doing to save costs and prepare for the later arrival of Duininck. This week or next, dredging should also begin on the distressed pond on Osprey’s 6th hole to remove about eight feet of material, returning it from what it has become to a beautiful water feature for the hole and a healthier environment for aquatic life, birds and other animals.

Members are Doing Their Part –
the Progress of Assessment Collection.

Especially as designers and contractors are now engaged, material physical work is beginning and our project manager will be in place, we will soon begin reporting on costs v. budget. This month we start our financial reporting with the inflow side of the ledger. Members were given the choice of payment of project-related assessments by lump sum, annually or quarterly, at different dollar values. Here is the breakdown of members’ choices (SFG means Signature Full Golf, SC refers to Signature Club): As of June 23, 98.6% of billed assessments have been paid.