The asking price for the site in Lake Township, Ohio, is $4.3 million, which is two-and-a-half times more than the owners paid for the course less than three years ago. It’s unclear if it’s being offered as an operating 18-hole public golf course, but there are indications it’s permanently closed. In addition to the golf course, two adjacent houses are also for sale. The Gesiotto family had purchased the course, and two houses, for a combined $2.7 million in October 2020, from the Gran family. The Grans owned and operated Seven Hills for nearly a half-century.

Seven Hills Country Club in Lake Township, Ohio, is for sale, the Canton Repository reported.

The property, which is about 30 minutes from both Akron and Canton, was formally listed this week, with an asking price of $4.3 million, the Canton Repository reported. It’s unclear if it’s being offered as an operating 18-hole public golf course — there had been indications it’s permanently closed.

The price tag is two-and-a-half times more than the $1.7 million the owners paid for the course less than three years ago, the Canton Repository reported.

Tom McCully, a Howard Hanna Real Estate Services agent selling the course, and two adjacent houses, did not immediately respond to a phone message seeking comment for this story, the Canton Repository reported.

The Howard Hanna website listing for the 154-acre site includes photos of the course and clubhouse, the Canton Repository reported. It includes no further information, other than a notation the property type is “lots and land.”

Earlier this month, a Canton Repository story stated that NorthernOhio.golf, a website dedicated to golf in this part of Ohio, had posted a story on Feb. 9, proclaiming Seven Hills will not open this year. That story, citing sources, mentioned it would be sold in 5-acre house lots.

Until now, indications were that the 18-hole public golf course had been shuttered, the Canton Repository reported.

The Canton Repository also spoke to sources who said the course was closed for good. And evidence seemed to indicate that — a Google summary and review page for Seven Hills lists the course as “permanently closed;” its phone is disconnected or out of service; its food license had not been renewed; and the two houses were already on the market.

James Gesiotto, a Mount Eaton dentist who’s part of a group that owns the golf course, did not immediately respond to a phone message seeking comment for this story, the Canton Repository reported.

According to state liquor license disclosure information, Gesiotto, his wife, Sherri, their daughter, Madison Gesiotto Gilbert, and her husband, Marcus Gilbert, own equal shares of Seven Hills.

The Gesiotto group had purchased the course, and two houses, for a combined $2.7 million in October 2020, from the Gran family, the Canton Repository reported. The Grans owned and operated Seven Hills for nearly a half-century.

The site is zoned for low-density residential, which means houses could be built there, the Canton Repository reported. According to township Zoning Administrator Nicole Wilkinson, the township zoning code would permit lots as small as just less than a half-acre to two acres, depending on a developer’s approach.

Wilkinson also said any development that altered use of the property from a golf course would likely have to be submitted to the Stark County Regional Planning Commission for approval, the Canton Repository reported.