Sanford Golf Design has been honored by the Florida Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for “[blending] environmental and artistic principles” while creating the unique public course that is set to open next year on a former blighted landfill in the Bronx, New York.

Though it will not be open to the public until spring 2015, the Bronx, N.Y., property, which is built over a former landfill, has finished construction 12 years after it was initially scheduled to open. Trump stepped into the project in 2011 with a 20-year lease following the departure of the original developer, and invested $850,000 in the golf course and $10 million in a yet-to-be-built 12,000-sq. ft. clubhouse and practice area.