Warminster clears a $25 million loan for a new Five Ponds clubhouse by Kimmel Bogrette
Warminster clears a $25 million loan for a new Five Ponds clubhouse by Kimmel Bogrette. About 30,000 square feet, paid from golf revenue.
Warminster Township's Board of Supervisors approved a $25 million, 20-year construction loan on August 20, 2026, for a new clubhouse and related work at Five Ponds Golf Club, the township-owned public course in Warminster, Pennsylvania. The Delaware Valley Regional Finance Authority is the lender, and township officials say golf-course revenue, not tax revenue, will repay the note.
Board chairman Kenneth M. Hayes said the project is meant to keep Five Ponds among the stronger publicly owned courses in the country, with costs covered by course income. Township manager Thomas Scott said officials compared financing options and chose the DelVal loan because it would save the township more than $1.3 million in interest and fees. DelVal administrator Jeffrey Calhoun pointed to Warminster's budget practice of keeping spending under revenue and to its reserve fund as reasons the authority was willing to lend.
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The building is the part of the deal that belongs on this site. In February, Kimmel Bogrette Architects of Blue Bell presented a two-story clubhouse of about 30,000 square feet. Bid documents later listed a first floor of 16,770 square feet, a second floor of 14,368 square feet, a 4,881-square-foot patio, and a 1,475-square-foot deck. Those figures come from the public bid package summarized on ConstructConnect. They have not been independently surveyed for this piece.
The first floor is planned as the golf side of the house: a full-service bar and restaurant branded Five Ponds Bar & Grill, indoor and outdoor seating looking at the course, an expanded pro shop, and four golf simulators for winter leagues, rentals, and private events. The second floor is the banquet and wedding floor, sized for receptions, corporate gatherings, fundraisers, and community functions. Kimmel Bogrette told supervisors the redesign separates golf operations from banquet space so both can run without fighting for the same rooms. A redesigned entrance and circular driveway are meant to fix traffic and guest drop-off.
That is the same split Harbour Town's 2015 Lowcountry clubhouse solved at a destination scale: dining and events as the social engine, not a bolt-on to the pro shop. The capital scale sits closer to Ocala's $63 million IronCrest sale, where a 37,000-square-foot clubhouse anchors a residential and golf stack. Five Ponds is municipal and public. IronCrest is private and residential. The building problem is still the same: make the clubhouse earn money after dark and in January.
Hayes said in February that the original drawings for the existing clubhouse already showed a second floor and the amenities the township is now funding, and that the township should have built them then. Public bidding for the new clubhouse opened in June through PennBid. ConstructConnect's bid summary says the base bid covers the new clubhouse plus parking, cart paths, sidewalks, landscaping, lighting, and stormwater work, and that the existing building and foundations come down under a separate contract.
Before the new building goes up, township officials have said the aging clubhouse may be used for a controlled live-fire training exercise with local fire departments, then demolished. A July report said that burn was expected later in the summer, pending final approvals and environmental clearances, and that nearby residents had raised smoke and air-quality questions at a public information meeting. As of the August loan coverage, local reports had not posted a completed burn date.
Five Ponds is an 18-hole public course owned by Warminster Township and managed by Spirit Golf, part of Sports Facilities Companies. Township materials describe the clubhouse as a long-term revenue play: dining, weddings, and events layered on top of daily-fee golf. A construction start date after award of the bid was not in the August loan stories. Clubhouse interior designers beyond Kimmel Bogrette were not named in the coverage.
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