🍹 Families-Only Country Clubs: A Deep Dive on Stonethrow
​📅 Date & Time: Thursday, January 29th at 3pm EST
🎙️ Hosted by: Thesis Driven
​ Traditional country clubs are expensive, suburban, and designed around golf—not how today’s urban families actually live, socialize, and spend time together.
​Stonethrow is a new kind of private club, purpose-built for families inside Dallas’ urban core.
​Join Thesis Driven and the founders of Roster Family Clubs for a live conversation unpacking how Stonethrow is rethinking private clubs from the ground up—combining hospitality, childcare, food & beverage, and community into a scalable OpCo/PropCo platform designed for families.
​Description
​In cities like Dallas, nearly every private club is full—yet 95%+ of families are priced out or underserved by what exists. Country clubs were designed for a different era: long waitlists, high initiation fees, limited programming for kids, and amenities optimized for adults first.
​Stonethrow flips that model.
​​Developed by the team behind Common Desk, Stonethrow is a families-only private club coming to East Dallas—designed around how parents and kids actually want to spend time together: resort-style pools, elevated food and beverage, high-quality childcare, indoor and outdoor play, and adults-only spaces—all within a secure, thoughtfully programmed environment.
​In this 60-minute live session, Brad & Paul of Thesis Driven will sit down with Nick Clark and Dawson Williams, co-founders of Roster Family Clubs, to explore the opportunity behind Stonethrow and the broader vision for building a new category of urban, family-focused private clubs.
​​We’ll dig into how Roster is approaching placemaking, operations, and real estate through a deliberate OpCo/PropCo strategy—and why they believe private clubs for families represent one of the most compelling, underbuilt lifestyle asset classes in major U.S. cities.
​In this session, we’ll cover:
​Why traditional country clubs miss the mark for urban families—and why demand is surging anyway
​The gap between expensive legacy clubs and what modern families actually want
​What makes Stonethrow different—from programming and childcare to F&B and design
​Stonethrow's traction and paper profits 1.5 years before opening
​How Roster thinks about OpCo vs. PropCo, recurring membership revenue, and scalable club economics
​Lessons from building and exiting Common Desk—and how that experience shaped Roster
​Building a platform of family-only private clubs in major urban markets
​Speakers Include:
​The Team
​Nick Clark, Co-Founder, Roster Family Clubs
​Dawson Williams, Co-Founder, Roster Family Clubs
​The “Institutional Investors”
​Paul Stanton, Thesis Driven
​Brad Hargreaves, Thesis Driven
​​🎟️ Register now to see how Roster Family Clubs is transforming a an emerging asset class with an institutional-scale, vertically-integrated real estate platform.