CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Apartments may not be coming to a Cape Coral golf course, after all.
WB Property Group, based in New York, canceled the contract to purchase Hunters Run Executive Golf Course because of pressure and concern over possible litigation from neighbors, according to the course’s listing agent with ERA Cape Realty.
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Now, neighbors who live next to the nearly 60-year-old course are making plans to buy it so no one else builds.
“When we got that phone call we said, ‘Wow this is the day we’ve been waiting for’,” said Charlie Pease, referring to the canceled contract involving WB.
Pease is a part of Keep Our Parks And Rec, a Cape Coral community group that’s been fighting the future land use application change from Parks & Rec to Multi-Family since the beginning.
“As we grow out to 300,000, 400,000 residents, there are not going to be many spaces to go where there are green spaces and golf courses and things like that if we keep on putting up apartment complexes and paving paradise to put up parking lots,” said Pease.
Now, Pease said he is working with the owner of Hunters Run to buy the course alongside a few other community members and investors.
“We’re not talking about massive amounts of money. We’re talking about people who care about protecting green space, the environment and the golf course. That is a huge thing for our community, especially in season,” said Pease.
The listing agent at ERA Cape Realty said the course’s owner has decided to give the community group a reasonable amount of time to come together to iron out a contract and purchase the nearly 30 acres of land.
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