Hilton Head Island readies Northpointe workforce neighborhood; town highlights land-acquisition strategy
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The town of Hilton Head Island will hold a groundbreaking next week for Northpointe on Jarvis Creek, an 11'acre, 157'unit workforce housing development requiring residents to work on the island; the town also announced a separate 7'acre Bryant Road homeownership opportunity and described an ongoing Land Management Ordinance (LMO) task force.
The town of Hilton Head Island plans a groundbreaking next week for Northpointe on Jarvis Creek, an 11'acre public'private workforce housing neighborhood that will include about 157 one' to three'bedroom units, Heather Woolwine, communications and marketing director for the town, told the Chamber Power Hour.
"You're gonna have all workforce housing in this development, not a percentage," Woolwine said, describing a project that requires residents to work on Hilton Head Island; the contract allows a Beaufort County worker to fill a unit only if, after due diligence, a local worker cannot be found.
Woolwine said the parcel is town owned and leased to 1 Street Residential, with RBC/ Citizens Bank serving as the financing partner. She emphasized connectivity to nearby schools, recreation facilities and job centers, and said the project includes green spaces and design standards intended to align with island character.
The town also announced a separate workforce homeownership model at 30 Bryant Road in the Spanish Wells Historic neighborhood on a roughly 7'acre site; an RFQ for that project is open through April 6.
Woolwine placed both projects within a broader land acquisition strategy. She said the town has acquired 14 properties since 2023 (with additional pending transactions), noted more than 85 acres and cited recent acquisition activity totaling about $60,000,000, adding that roughly one quarter of that sum came from the Beaufort County Green Space Program.
On zoning and code updates, Woolwine outlined an LMO task force formed late last year that has met twice (the second meeting on Jan. 26) and will make recommendations on Land Management Ordinance amendments. She said 36 LMO and municipal code amendments have been adopted since 2021 and that the task force will work through remaining priorities with the goal of moving sections to the task force over the summer and adopting changes later in the calendar year, if possible.
Woolwine invited community members to sign up for task force updates on the town website and said an interest portal for Northpointe signups and wait lists should be unveiled next week.