No ‘wild and crazy’ state golf plans in Buckhead, GBA honcho says
State agency agrees to iron out wrinkles of land-swap deal with city for Bobby Jones Golf Course
“We’re hearing rumors of all kinds of all kinds of wild and crazy plans. There’s not any wild and crazy plans.”
— Steven Stancil, executive director of the Georgia Building Authority, on reports of the state planning to build a nine-hole golf destination to replace the 18-hole Bobby Jones Golf Course in Buckhead. The GBA board formally agreed today to iron out the transaction details with the City of Atlanta, which owns the course and is aiming to swap the links for a state-owned parking deck downtown. The city wants to bundle the Wall Street parking properties in a deal to sell Underground Atlanta. Stancil said at today’s GBA meeting that the agency, which oversees the state’s real-estate portfolio, will “meet with folks and decide what the best course of action is for the operation” once it owns the course. Stancil said the deal with the city is in its “infancy” and he does not know when it might get done.
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