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Article: OFFICIALS WEIGH WHAT TO DO WITH GOLF COURSE TOWN CONSIDERING NEW MANAGEMENT, CLOSING FACILITY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 25, 2003
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By the end of the fiscal year, Natick's Sassamon Trace golf course
is projected to be at least $300,000 in the red, prompting town
officials for the first time to discuss either leasing the property
or closing the course altogether.
The town-owned golf course, which opened three years ago atop a
former landfill, has never broken even but, until recently, town
officials were saying it would just take "a few years" for the
course to become profitable.
That mode of thinking appears to have shifted.
"[The golf course] hasn't come to fruition, or anything close to
it, and the likelihood of this going positive financially in the next
four or five years is really suspect," Town Administrator ...