Please pardon my ignorance, but precisely what is included in Beach Club membership? Doesn't the desirability of the property decline considerably without it? And why build a beachside development with a club that can only accommodate a small portion of owners?
Watersound Beach has abundant gulf front property that is open to anyone in Watersound Beach. The Watersound Beach Club has a very private gated entrance. Within the Beach Club property is the only tennis facility in Watersound Beach. In addition there is a very nice restaurant with a gulf front bar above. The nicest pool in the neighborhood is in the club and there are some private rooms that they hold activities in for neighborhood kids, etc.
Those are the benefits as I see them. At the same time there is always the
Emperors New Clothes syndrome with these types of things. At this time JOE is adding Beach Club membership as incentive on 100's of their developer owned properties. I don't know the current membership stat's but I would bet that there are more current members than the capacity approved by the Fire Marshall for the club or the simming pool occupancy load by the Health Department. We will see in time how this develops.