Report: Developer Plans To Keep Montgomery Village Golf Course Open, Add Homes
Sale of the Montgomery Village Golf Course to Monument Realty was finalized Tuesday afternoon, The Gazette reports.
New owners of the Montgomery Village Golf Course plan to keep it open and hope to add housing in the future, according to a report by The Gazette.
Sale of the MVGC to DC-based Monument Realty was finalized Tuesday afternoon, according to the report. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Reports in December indicated the price could be as much as $5 million.
The state determined the property was worth about $1.6 million in 2012, according to the report.
Michael Darby, principal of Monument Realty, told The Gazette "he envisions townhomes and multifamily residences mixed with open spaces on the current site, designed with input from nearby residents."
It will take at least three years before the rezoning process and designs can be completed, he said, according to the report.
TSteele
5:00 pm on Thursday, March 14, 2013
If the course is to be kept, where do the houses go? The land that isn't occupied by the course is either under the power lines or in floodplain. Unless he's talking about making it a nine-hole course, his statement doesn't make sense.
samuel taylor
5:05 pm on Thursday, March 14, 2013
who can afford the green fee's at Montgomery Village Golf Course
I live around the area and i see no one out their
TSteele
5:17 pm on Thursday, March 14, 2013
I live on the course. Not many players out there the last year or so, mostly because the owner let the course pretty much go to seed - broken cart paths, poor greens and fairways, terrible tee boxes, etc.
I grew up in the Village, and it's sad to see it fall apart, bit by bit. They knocked down the old Y and replaced it with a completely unnecessary strip mall (which still isn't fully occupied), and the Village Mall is a joke.
Sharon Adams
10:39 pm on Thursday, March 14, 2013
Townhomes & multi-family residences! Ah, looking forward to just a wee bit more (horrendous) traffic on the already unbelievable Montgomery Village Avenue (particularly the intersection of Village Avenue & speedway MidCounty Hwy). Already need 'personal helicopter &pad' to 'get out of' the Village any day of the week but particularly the weekend!
TSteele
1:18 pm on Friday, March 15, 2013
Curious how the new owner plans to get around the zoning that killed the last proposal a few years ago, namely that MV has already reached its max density.
Lois
7:39 pm on Monday, March 18, 2013
How about tearing down Clubside making room for more attractive housing
Helen Campbell
9:08 pm on Saturday, April 6, 2013
I grew up on that golf course. As kids we skated on the ponds and collected the golf balls hit in our yards. It's a shame that MORE homes need to be built in Montgomery Village. I don't think that is what Kettler Bros envisioned in the late 60's.
SJW
9:41 pm on Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Really, 1960's...don't you think it need some major changes to keep up with communities in MD?