Dudley Henriques wrote:

This sounds like it's going to be an ongoing deal for some time Roger.
I hope it all goes well for your side in the end.
Reading this brought back some memories and Bea and I sat down last night
and got out some old records and photos.
Believe it or not, almost every small field where I either flew from or
instructed out of is now gone; some are housing developments; some are
shopping centers or malls. One is an industrial park.
It's absolutely amazing!
The entire face of aviation has changed.
The funny thing is that I've always wondered how Golf Courses have escaped
the developers ax that has been used on the small airports.
I figured it out once over lunch with a couple of "big money" guys at our
local country club. We figured that off the first tee with a good drive, the
ball would over fly about 10 million dollars of prime development real
estate.
(Actually for my drive, about 5 million dollars would about do it I think
:-)))))
You have to wonder about all that prime land with the airports and the golf
courses as well, just sitting there waiting for the right combination of
developer/politician/ and "the inevitable DEAL, this combo can produce!

I suspect it will happen in time. Golf will fade just as aviation is
fading. I suspect the driver, pun intended, :-) will be a shortage of
water given population trends in the US.

Already, there is a golf course near where I live, unfortunately the
closest course to where I live, that has gone into bankruptcy and was
foreclosed on by the bank. They are still maintaining it and trying to
sell it as a golf course, but it has been closed all this season and
rumors are that it is about to be sold to a construction company. Turns
out it is worth more for the topsoil on it than it is as a golf course.


Matt