The transformation of the former Shallow Creek GC—an Arnold Palmer-designed course on 12 acres donated to the town in 2007—is scheduled to be finished by summer 2019. Past development plans have included a strip mall, a sports dome, and a family-fun center featuring a driving range, laser tag and a mini-golf course.
A new 9-hole, par-3 golf course is taking shape on an old 9-hole, par-3 golf course in Yorktown, N.Y., the Yorktown News reported.
The development is the brainchild of the late Rocco Cambareri, a golf professional whose resume included stints at Maple Moor and Saxon Woods golf courses in White Plains and Scarsdale, N.Y., and who had established RC Recreation Development, a nonprofit, to transform the former Shallow Creek Golf Course, the News reported.
Although Cambareri died in 2017, his partner in the project, Larry Nussbaum, is continuing the effort, and in April 2018, the Town Board voted to extend the length of its agreement with RC to develop and operate the course through 2028.
Under the public/private partnership, the Arnold Palmer-designed course and a restaurant on the 12 acres donated to the town in 2007 will be managed by Friends of Valley Fields Golf Course, according to Yorktown Recreation Commissioner Joseph Falcone, who is charged with overseeing the project, the News reported.
“Development began in 2015 and hopefully will be completed by summer of 2019, if not sooner,” Falcone said in an e-mail to the News, noting that “inclement weather conditions have played a role in the schedule.”
The plan, he said, calls “for an active golf course with a food establishment and will also serve as a recreational learning center for multi-generation use,” he said. Further details about the project, including the size of the eatery and the kind of programming being planned, were unavailable, according to the News report.
Proposals for development of the property have been tendered since 1995 and have included a strip mall, a sports dome, and even a family fun center featuring a driving range, laser tag and a mini-golf course, the News reported. Contributors to the project include the Wadsworth Golf Charities Foundation, which in 2015 awarded the project $250,000, and Yorktown BOCES carpentry classes, which in 2016 built and donated nine park benches.
Quast told the News that once the facility is up and running, a fee schedule will be implemented.
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