Business View Magazine | Volume 9, Issue 3

138 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 3 CAROL INA COUNTRY CLUB estate developers who established Raleigh, grew Raleigh, and have basically been in Raleigh forever. Over its lifetime, the Club has been extremely successful and kept the good fortune of its geographical site. It’s an outstanding location in just the right kind of housing market and neighborhood, in one of the faster growing areas in the country.” The Club currently has five-star Platinum status with the Platinum Clubs of America. It’s also been named an Emerald Club of the World by BoardRoom Magazine, one of the most respected trade publications servicing private clubs today. With a membership of 1,280 and a waitlist 10-years long, the Carolina Country Club is undeniably a privileged social space, but it holds a certain cachet that many private clubs – given the current zeitgeist of social- and sex-based equality – have a hard time negotiating for themselves. “What’s unique about us is that, unlike most member-owned clubs, we really try to appeal to the whole family, where both adults and their children get value out of the club and can access it in lots of different ways,” Slaughter shares. “Married couples are both equal members; there’s not a primary member and a spouse, for example. And that just reinforces our kind of service and our focus on giving the family unit full-service access to the club.” The Carolina Country Club doesn’t curtail membership “rights” to use any of the facilities, either. “We don’t have different segments of membership,” Slaughter says. “Everyone has