The Hamburg, N.Y. club was closed for much of last year because of COVID-19 protocols, but in the fall, plans were announced to have it reopen this spring as a public course. A local investment group comprised of former Brierwood members is under contract to purchase the club, with plans for renovation and rebranding.
A local investment group has put Brierwood Country Club in Hamburg, N.Y. under contract and plans to reopen the golf course and club facilities within the next month, Buffalo Business First reported. The investors—all former Brierwood members—include local businessman Brian Gasuik and Joseph Lombardo, Lombardo Funeral Home Inc. president.
The deal is expected to close by mid-April and remains in a due diligence stage pending final negotiations, Buffalo Business First reported. While the investors are bound by a non-disclosure agreement with Brierwood’s current owner, CBIGG Management LLC, an affiliate of the Arizona-based C-Bons International Golf Corp., documents filed indicate the club will be rebranded as Cloverbank Country Club when it reopens. The club will be private, although it may open tee times at non-peak hours to the public.
Officials from C-Bons, which also owns the Fox Valley Country Club in Lancaster, N.Y. and earlier this year sold the Tan Tara Golf Club—now Pendleton Creek Golf Club—in North Tonawanda, N.Y. to local investors, did not return calls about the sale, Buffalo Business First reported.
The new owners also plan to bring back the Bobby O’Brien’s restaurant at the club and make it open to the public, Buffalo Business First reported. The Bobby O’Brien’s name stems from when the Burke family owned Brierwood in the late 1980s and 1990s.
In 1956, the Bethlehem Steel Corp. acquired 400 acres of land and opened the Bethlehem Management Club, a private, par-72 course for its executives, Buffalo Business First reported. The club was open to non-Bethlehem employees in the 1960s.
Besides the course, amenities include a 12-lane bowling alley, tennis courts and pool, Buffalo Business First reported. All will be renovated as part of the deal.
C-Bons bought Brierwood in 2014, paying $6.2 million for the property along with $2.9 million for Fox Valley, Buffalo Business First reported.
Brierwood was closed for much of last year because of Covid-19 protocols but in the fall, plans were announced to have it reopen this spring as a public course, Buffalo Business First reported.
C+RB reported on those plans in September 2020.
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