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On December 2, 2024, Blum Investment Group Golf LLC filed a special use permit application with the Town of Shallotte. The proposal: reopen holes 1 through 9 of the former Brierwood Golf Club, restore the tennis courts, rehabilitate the clubhouse and open a restaurant. Eli Engineering of Ocean Isle Beach prepared the plans.

The first version was broader. It included indoor and outdoor pickleball courts, a children's play area and a swimming pool. The Town's planner, Brandon Eaton, later confirmed that the applicant removed those additional uses from the final submitted plans. The approved site plan describes two phases: nine holes with repaired cart paths, the rehabilitated clubhouse and a new restaurant in phase one, and resurfaced and improved courts in phase two.

The hearing itself was delayed. Typographical errors in the notice mailed to neighbors caused confusion, and the Town rescheduled the hearing to March 4, 2025 at 5:15 p.m., sending a new mailing to adjacent property owners as state law requires. The Association posted the new date on this website.

At the hearing, a quasi-judicial proceeding, the owner's attorney argued the project met the Town's standards, citing an appraiser's finding that golf course lots are worth more than interior lots and asserting that the neighborhood's roads would not be harmed. Two residents of Pender Road, whose properties back up to the courts, testified that the planned vegetative buffer was not enough to screen noise and light. The applicant responded that the courts would operate only in daytime and that no lighting would be installed.

The Board of Aldermen voted unanimously to approve the permit, with conditions. The owner must begin improvements within twelve months of approval, must provide a stronger boundary buffer between the courts and abutting properties, and agreed to return with a more detailed plan for the courts. The project covers about 76 acres across five parcels, all zoned RA-15 residential in the Town's extraterritorial jurisdiction. No rezoning was requested.

The owner told the board that the restaurant and the golf course were the first priority. No reopening date was given. The clubhouse plan calls for a 70-seat restaurant in the three-story, 10,000-square-foot building.