A metro area golf course plans to sell to a developer and it has the neighborhood in District 66 buzzing. In a special meeting, the Sunset Valley Golf Club voted on June 13 to agree to sell the property to the NP Dodge Building Company and to dissolve and liquidate the club.
The private club is located just northwest of 90th & W. Center Rd. and has reportedly been losing money recently.
Members have been told that the land would be made into a high end senior living center and possibly some of the golf holes will be kept. But no plans have been submitted to the city yet.
Neighbors say they've known this could be a possibility but want the developer to enrich the property to preserve this part of District 66.
"A lot of the neighbors are concerned that the parts they could develop are the parts right up against our boundary line so we're concerned about that. We just want to make sure it doesn't affect our property value negatively," said Todd Johnson, a resident who lives on the course.
A member says the sale is contingent on if soil samples indicate it's ok for construction.
In the special meeting, the club required the purchase agreement to be signed by June 16.
Along the Big Papio Creek, some of the land is in the flood plain and some is on the flood fringe.
Hussein Khalil is working to get a meeting with the neighbors together soon and hopefully the developer.
"It changes the characteristic of the neighborhood, it doesn't become the single family residential neighborhood, it becomes a different kind of neighborhood that's what we're concerned about,” Khalil explained.
Members say if the sale goes through, the course will likely close after the 2017 golf season ends.
