Osprey Village, Inc.

Our Mission: To provide accessible housing options for adults with developmental disabilities that foster community, encourage inclusion, and support achieving independence.

Our Vision: To provide a range of residential housing options and personal caregiver services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) that support achieving lifelong independent living and personal growth.

Four cornerstones of the Osprey Village Mission:
- High quality personalized service with lifelong care / aging-in-place
- Village site plan and residences architecturally designed specifically for people with IDD a unique innovative model that can be replicated in many communities nationwide
- Continual resident safety with built-in security technology
- Long-term sustainable business model that includes low entry homeownership pricing on 1/3 of the residence units

All of the residence pricing in Osprey Village is being set as low as possible due to several very favorable factors:
- The large scale of building and contractor activity in the East Argent development
- Our very close partnership with the East Argent site developer and managers
- Our custom-designed home architecture pre-planned for low maintenance costs

Phase 1 will include 100 cottage villa units priced competitively to other new residential communities in the local area. Phase 2 will include 60 units with lower entry pricing and rental opportunities.

In 2017, we received a donation of 25 acres of buildable land from the master developer of a 7300 acre planned development located in Hardeeville, Jasper County, SC. We anticipate permitting will begin in Fall 2024 with initial groundbreaking in early 2025; our first residences should be ready for move-in in 2026.

A range of paid professional services will be coordinated between the neighborhood and the broader community. Special attention will be paid to developing independent living skills that will enable adults with IDD to achieve their greatest capabilities by growing both individually and in their relationships with neighbors. Osprey Village will also welcome the involvement of other organizations that already are serving our future residents with social, recreational, and educational programs and services.

The master development and architectural program include the following:
- Site Area: 25 acres located in the East Argent Tract of Rt. 170 in Hardeeville, SC
- 160 residential units total
- 140 1-bedroom units; 8 2-bedroom units; 12 supportive housing units
- 100 Units will be for-sale, market rate homes as part of a condominium regime.
-60 units will be a mix of for-sale and rental homes; 25% of the rental homes will be affordable housing units.
- 10,000 S.F. Community Center will have offices, movie theater, caf, event and dining room, fitness center, gaming room, meeting room, and other support facilities.
- Community swimming pool with an outdoor TV pavilion and grill area.
- The neighborhood will be gated and fenced for increased safety and security.
- Parks and walking trails will be integrated into the community.
- Future plans include a Job Training Center near the main entrance with a community room and coffee/caf or ice cream shop as well as space for collaborative retail operations with other nonprofits with a common mission to support persons with IDD.

We have a dedicated and passionate Board of Directors that includes several "founding families" as well as current and retired professionals with expertise in finance, land planning, education, business management, marketing, and social services:
- Our Board Chair is the Broker-in-Charge of the largest realty firm in the area.
- Our Board VP is a land planner and landscape architect who developed the plans for The Cypress, the first continuing care community in the nation.
- Our Board Treasurer has developed and run the healthcare facilities financing divisions for several banks.
- Our COO has led the development of a large neighborhood in Bluffton SC area as well as being the former Executive Director of Programs for Exceptional People, a local day program.

Osprey Village was approved as a Qualified Service Provider by the SC Dept. of Developmental Disabilities (DDSN) in early 2016. We have also partnered with a number of human service organizations and alliances in our area, and we led the founding of the Beaufort County Disabilities Coalition to bring together local service agencies and businesses to collaborate and coordinate our efforts.

We are currently in discussions with state and local government officials to form a public/private partnership that would enable us to serve more people at a lower cost with better outcomes. The State of South Carolina has already awarded $1.8M in grants to our project, with more anticipated in the upcoming years.

We started our Osprey Village Thrift Store in April, 2011, in order to provide operational funds for our future neighborhood with a purpose" to support developmentally disabled adults and their caregivers in the Bluffton and Hilton Head area. The store is open Monday Saturday and is staffed mostly by volunteers. We opened a second store called "Osprey Village Thrift on Main" on Hilton Head Island in March 2017 and also added offices and meeting space for our staff, clients and board members there.

Several of our potential future residents are working as volunteers at our Thrift Stores along with many retirees from nearby Sun City Hilton Head.

We received a donation of ~25 acres of buildable land in City of Hardeeville by a national housing developer in December 2017. They see our "neighborhood with a purpose" concept as an attractive complement to their plans for a larger development of over 9300 home sites.

We were awarded a $1M grant from the State of South Carolina in 2023 for the development of our Community Center facility and the services and programs that will be provided from that facility. We have already received initial commitments from 30 families to purchase residences in Osprey Village; 22 of them are also investing $100K each into the project. And we have a term sheet from a local bank to provide up to $30M in lending for the construction of our first 100 residential units in Phase I of our project.