Amid widespread speculation that it has been sold, the SafeHaven Golf Course has called a members meeting for Wednesday at 5:30pm.
Project manager Davey Ebanks confirmed the meeting, but declined to say what it was about.
‘It’s a members’ only meeting,’ he said. ‘It is not open to the public.’
Mr. Ebanks also confirmed that the SafeHaven clubhouse began a 50 per cent off sale last week.
Ritz-Carlton developer Mike Ryan said again last week that he does not own the SafeHaven Golf Course.
‘I can’t comment at this time except to say we had, and continue to have, an interest in the SafeHaven property,’ he said, adding that acquiring the land would be ‘a logical direction for us.’
There has been speculation that Mr. Ryan would like to purchase the SafeHaven property so the Ritz-Carlton can have an 18-hole golf course instead of the 9-hole ‘Blue Tip’ course it now has.
Last week, Blue Tip designer Greg Norman was spotted at the Ritz-Carlton, and Mr. Ryan confirmed he met with the famous golfer.
Mr. Ryan also said he would provide details about his meeting with Mr. Norman after the SafeHaven Golf Course member’s meeting.
Speaking about a recent article in another newspaper that suggested Mr. Ryan wanted to cut a waterway from the North Sound to Seven Mile Beach, the developer again denied he ever had an idea to do that, even if he did purchase the SafeHaven property.
‘I continue to be flabbergasted at the report,’ Mr. Ryan said. ‘Between [the North Sound and Seven Mile Beach] is the new by-pass, which is separated by a median, and West Bay Road. It’s unfathomable how anyone could even consider it.’
Mr. Ryan said the other newspaper had obtained a copy of a confidential Request For Qualifications for interior designers and had mistaken it for a prospectus, even thought the first sentence of the covering letter states what it is.
He said the newspaper had misconstrued a sentence in the RFQ that stated ‘to create a series of waterways that would link the North Sound to Seven Mile Beach’ as meaning the waterways themselves would be go all the way from the North Sound to Seven Mile Beach.
‘It did not say that,’ Mr. Ryan said, adding that by developing the Ritz-Carlton property, it links the North Sound with Seven Mile Beach in the same way as developments like Camana Bay and others do.
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