Martin Willis

Willis' nephew, Martin Willis, said his uncle's subsequent offer in mid-June to buy back the club for nearly $2.8 million was motivated primarily by Gordon Willis' feelings for the club and its golf course, which Gordon Willis helped design.
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"We're doing it for one reason and one reason only," said Martin Willis, vice president of Old Heritage Corp.
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But Martin Willis said Gordon Willis, 83, who is chairman of the board for Rockydale Quarries Corp., and Willis' Old Heritage Corp. also have a financial stake in the club's future.
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"We stand to lose a good deal of money if they fill the golf course with patio homes and the subdivision fills up with 'for sale' signs as a result," Martin Willis added.

Martin Willis is vice president of Old Heritage Corp.
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With added lease payments for the golf course, the club's monthly debt service would drop from about $24,400 per month to Wachovia to about $12,694 to Old Heritage, according to calculations cited by Martin Willis.

The package would provide about $416,000 above the payoff amount owed Wachovia, which could offer Hunting Hills Country Club "32 months of freedom from mortgage payments," Willis said.

He wrote, "This is the 32 months in which the club must solve the problem of declining membership and turn things around."

Martin Willis, a spokesman for Old Heritage Corp., did not return phone calls Thursday.

A new, all-inclusive family membership fee of $200 a month has helped lure new members, especially those with children, said van Duursen.The $200 membership offers access to swimming, golf and tennis, as well as the club's social and food and beverage facilities.For now, there is no initiation fee for new members, he said.

On Wednesday morning, Martin Willis, vice president of Old Heritage and Gordon Willis' nephew, said he believed an agreement was imminent.

"I have the final documents I'm about to deliver over to Hunting Hills," Willis said, adding he was hopeful an agreement might be signed as early as today.

But Daniel Layman, an attorney for the Hunting Hills Country Club's board, did not agree with Willis' projected timing of an agreement.