A brand new proposal for a Margate golf course is the newest in a well-recognized sample throughout South Florida of turning golf greens into housing.
Lennar has submitted a proposal to show the Margate Government Golf Course into 180 townhouses. The plan requires building on the 21 acres off Margate Boulevard, a 9-hole course developed in 1973.
Golf programs are being transformed into improvement frequently, and “the Margate Government Course is affected by the oversupply of golf programs within the tri-county space,” in line with the corporate’s utility to Metropolis Corridor.
Representatives for Lennar didn’t reply to request for remark regardless of a number of emails.
Elsewhere throughout the area, building is now underway on a part of Woodmont’s golf course west of College Drive with PulteGroup houses in Tamarac, the identical metropolis that noticed two different golf programs on its jap borders not too long ago reworked into new houses. The identical firm needs to construct as much as 405 houses on a golf course in Oakland Park. Metropolis approvals are pending. And Lennar has opened fashions for its first new master-planned neighborhood in Deerfield Seashore in additional than 25 years on a golf course.
Even in Margate, this plan isn’t the one golf course pending building.
Earlier this 12 months, developer thirteenth Ground Houses turned in plans to assemble 330 single-family houses and townhomes on the positioning of the 140-acre course on the Carolina Membership, constructed within the early Seventies off Rock Island Street. A rezoning utility is pending.
A 3rd golf course in Margate, Palm Lakes Government, is inactive. A developer’s plans to construct townhomes there failed after close by residents fought the proposal and the land remains to be empty.
Just one golf course in Margate would stay: Oriole Golf Membership.
Marilyn Kneeland has lived at Oriole Gardens, a senior neighborhood, for greater than a decade, close to the sixth gap of the chief course.
“Loads of us purchased our condos due to the golf course,” she mentioned. “It’s the one 9-hole course round. I sit on my screened-in porch and watch the golfers and discovered to not say ‘oops’ after they miss a gap as a result of they’ll hear me. I perceive improvement however I can not imagine they’re making an attempt to develop that course. They maintain saying there are fewer golfers but when this ceases to exist, it is going to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
“We predict it ought to keep a golf course.”
