LAKELAND, Florida — Certainly one of Central Florida’s oldest golf programs, Wedgewood Golf Course, has been offered to probably make method for a 1,400-home growth, in response to a report within the Lakeland Ledger, a part of the USA At the moment Community.
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Based on the paper, Mulberry-based SJD Growth LLC bought the 117-acre property for $4.5 million in December from Kanes Golf of Florida, owned by Solar Shin, in response to information from the Polk County Property Appraiser’s Workplace.
Former Polk County Commissioner John Corridor and Jonathan Corridor, a companion with Ronin Property, filed a request with the Metropolis of Lakeland on April 1 to have almost 111 acres rezoned beneath a Deliberate Unit Growth for a residential group. The daddy-son duo hope to combine single-family properties, townhouses, multifamily residences and a 150-bed assisted residing facility in a venture dubbed “Gibson Trails.”
“Many golf programs are not worthwhile to function as golf programs and in lots of circumstances, reminiscent of Wedgewood, they’re really dropping cash. As a consequence of altering market circumstances, a large number of golf programs are being repurposes into residential communities,” the developer says within the software.
The request is scheduled to go earlier than Lakeland’s Planning and Zoning Board on Could 17. If authorised, the course may turn out to be house to 16 single-family properties, 204 townhomes and 1,028 multifamily models arrayed in three- and four-story buildings.
Wedgewood was initially referred to as William L. Hutcheson Golf Course when it was in-built January 1931. The unique 18-hole, par 73 course was the second to open in Lakeland after Cleveland Heights Golf Course, which is owned by the town.
Hutcheson was president of the carpenters union for 36 years beginning in 1915. The union, for carpenters age 65 and older with 30 years’ membership, was one of many largest building-trade unions within the nation.
The Carpenters Dwelling Cemetery nonetheless stays on the southeast facet of the golf course behind the previous tenth gap.
The property has modified arms a number of occasions over time. Its identify was modified to Wedgewood Golf Membership in 1983 after present process a redesign by Lakeland course architect Ron Garl. The course has attracted well-known golfers together with Gene Sarazen and Sam Snead.
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