Under the agreement, the St. George, Utah club will remain a private, 18-hole golf course, but SunRiver Group will be involved in financial and management matters. SunRiver Group plans to make improvements to the property while offering more golf opportunities to residents of the nearby SunRiver St. George.
The first private country club in Southern Utah, Bloomington Country Club in St. George, Utah is entering into an agreement with SunRiver Group that looks to bring improvements to the club and added opportunities to its members, and to residents of SunRiver St. George, the St. George (Utah) News reported.
SunRiver Group will be an investor and partner with the program at Bloomington CC, the club’s General Manager Scott Brandt said, and the club will remain an 18-hole private golf course. The two golf courses will remain two separate properties, but SunRiver Group will be involved with both properties, financially and in management, the News reported.
“We are looking forward to making it better than it is right now,” Brandt said. “Going forward, we’re looking to kind of put the shine back on the golf course that it use to have.”
SunRiver emailed an announcement to their residents, that said: In consideration for the issuance of shares, SunRiver in partnership with Jimmie (James) Blair and Addiction Golf, will continue operation of the golf course and contribute financial resources to update and enhance the existing country club golf experience and facilities, the News reported.
James Blair is the owner of Addiction Golf LLC, which works in partnership with SunRiver Group. Blair runs the golf operations at SunRiver St. George. Blair said they want to create more and better golf opportunities for the SunRiver residents, and also the current members at Bloomington Country Club, the News reported.
“Given the right set of circumstances, there will be some nice upgrades if we can get done what we need to have done,” Blair said.
The arrangement is still in the early stages and SunRiver Group is in the process of putting it on paper, Blair said. “It’ll require some planning and going through the right steps with the city, and things like that, to get approval.”
There are rumors about the golf course getting shut down and the property becoming real estate for residential building. “That’s not our intent at all, we don’t want to be part of that,” Blair said. “We’re trying to upgrade the facilities and do some things that we need to do to take it to the next step.”
Bloomington Country Club was established in 1969 and was originally built as a vehicle to sell real estate but is now owned by the members. The club currently has between 125-150 members, Blair said.
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