Council to consider keeping Kemper
Interim City Manager Ann Marie Gallant will ask the City Council to sign off on negotiations with Kemper Sports Management to enter a long-term contract to manage the Chuck Corica Golf Complex. But golf boosters are crying foul over Kemper’s proposal to immediately shutter the Mif Albright nine-hole course and set up two new, nine-hole [...]
A little bit of this, a little bit of that
SunCal was more or less off the agenda for Tuesday’s City Council meeting, but the council considered a number of meaty-ish items:
Trees. The council unanimously approved a new Master Street Tree Plan to guide the way the city manages its 15,000-tree urban forest. The two-volume plan is the first update the city has had on [...]
Junior Golf Club vows to run Mif
The Alameda Junior Golf Club’s board of directors has decided they’re willing to serve as the Mif Albright golf course’s nonprofit operator, the club announced Sunday.
The club will ask the city for a $1-a-year lease for the nine-hole course and is preparing plans to raise cash and to operate the course, its leaders said in [...]
Mif wins fresh reprieve
The Mif Albright nine-hole golf course won yet another reprieve from the City Council, which voted early this morning to keep it open until a long-term operator is selected to run the course and to explore options – including forming a nonprofit – for keeping the course open.
“That’s the deal we made. We were going [...]
Mif closure back on council agenda
Alameda golfers are teed off about a fresh proposal to close the Mif Albright nine-hole golf course at the end of the month, which was announced on New Year’s Eve and will be considered by the City Council at a special meeting Wednesday night at City Hall.
City staff is saying the course is a money-loser [...]
City seeks permanent golf course manager
The city has put out a request for proposals for a permanent manager for the Chuck Corica Golf Complex. A new manager for the course could be chosen by mid-December.
The City Council hired Kemper Sports in November 2008 to run the golf complex – the Bay Area’s busiest – for a year while city staff [...]
Mif land swap on council agenda tonight
As promised, the City Council is slated to meet in closed session tonight to talk about a potential land swap with local developer Ron Cowan: Cowan’s last remaining plot of land in the Harbor Bay Business Park for the Mif Albright golf course.
I say “as promised” because the council was slated to discuss a potential [...]
Mif Albright course may reopen
Alameda’s duffers are celebrating a proposal to reopen the Mif Albright golf course in June, just in time for the Island’s junior golfers to hit the links.
Interim City Manager Ann Marie Gallant is proposing the city spend $21,000 to fix up the course and make it playable for at least the next six months. Total [...]
Golfers pitch plan to save Mif
Alameda’s junior and senior golfers made a passionate pitch to the city council Tuesday to save the Mif Albright short course, offering a proposal to have a nonprofit run the course which they say shows the course should turn the green(backs).
The council was discussing different options for the 12-acre short course, which have included sports [...]
Cowan on Mif: No thanks
I finally got around to checking in with local developer Ron Cowan regarding a proposal to swap 12 acres Cowan owns on Harbor Bay for the just-closed Mif Albright golf course. Cowan said he hasn’t been seriously approached by the city regarding any swap, and even if he were, he’s not interested.
“I’ve heard those rumors [...]
I’m Miffed
At myself, that is. Yesterday I reported that leaders of Harbor Bay’s homeowners associations and businesses asked the City Council to consider swapping the Mif Albright nine-hole golf course for a similar-size swath of land that had been the site for his proposed Harbor Bay Village VI residential development.
Turns out I was so focused on [...]
