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Article: Keeping the greens: the green of golf courses is giving way to residential condos as South Florida's clubs struggle to survive.
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- South Florida CEO
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- December 1, 2006
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Ascarcity of residential land has diminished the rolling green hills and putting greens of South Florida's golf courses during the last five years. Public courses are looking at going private, private courses are going semi-private, and courses of all types with land to spare are building homes on the greens.
Roughly a dozen golf courses, mostly public, older and no longer profitable, have closed, including Fontainebleau Golf Club in Westchester and Williams Island Golf in Aventura. Many of the once well-maintained golf greens that dotted the region are being replaced with cement, rezoned to pave the way for residential development.
"To some extent perhaps, there was ...
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