Big changes could becoming to Germantown. Monday, an Arizona-based developer announced its plans tobuy the former Germantown Country Club and redesign it with fewer golf holes,new homes, and stores.
The trustees of the180-acre property intend to sell it to Millennium Companies, which specializesin redesigning golf course properties. The company’s CEO told Local 24 News theplan is a concept and not set in stone, but the proposal to revamp the golfcourse land brought mixed reaction.
“We will doeverything in our power to make sure that the spirit of Germantown ispreserved,” Millennium Companies CEO Bob Hobbs, Jr. said.
On the property of rollinghills, there are big plans to give the former country club a new face and newlife.
“The consumers andthe market itself are demanding that golf be played slightly differently,”Hobbs, Jr. said.
The expected new ownerswant to change the former 18-hole course into a 9-hole course and plan to usethat freed up space for a new community park, stores, homes, and condos.
“It’s going to bedone very tastefully, it’s going to allow the opportunity for people to justhang out and enjoy it,” Hobbs, Jr. said.
The idea drew mixedreviews from those who drive by the property every day.
“I think thateverybody that lives there is going to enjoy it because they can walk aroundand if they want to use the golf course, they can,” Jean Brooks of Germantownsaid.
“Golf courses areexpensive, and they are not a moneymaking place,” Richard Robison of Germantownsaid.
“Golf is 18 holes, agood course of value,” Steele Malloy of Germantown said.
Once the property sale isfinalized, the developer plans to submit an official design application andpromised input from neighbors will guide and influence their final proposal.
“We don’t want tosuggest anything that the community isn’t going to support, and we don’t pretendto know that market more than they know themselves,” Hobbs, Jr. said.
The developers plan tomeet with neighborhood leaders in Germantown in the next week or so. TheGermantown mayor said in a statement he’ll keep the community in the loop asthe process moves forward.
City leaders were recentlyrejected in their bid to buy the country club property and turn it into apublic park.