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Cover Feature - February 2006
Golf Course Contractors Tee Up
By ADRIAN McDONALD
Golf course construction is more than pushing dirt around. It takes a designer who can interpret the land and an equipment operator with an artistic hand.
"We feel like there's been a golf course lying underneath for a long time and it's our job to expose it," said Jay Blasi, of the California-based golf course architecture firm Robert Trent Jones, Jr.
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A Site to be Seen
By ROB THOMAS
Real estate’s popular idiom stresses the importance of location, and Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, N.J., claims to have one of the best.On the banks of the Hudson River, in the shadow of Manhattan’s skyline and under the watchful eye of the Statue of Liberty sits the yet-to-open golf course with an estimated price tag of $129 million. The course is scheduled to open July 4.
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Poplar Hill Golf Club Construction Begins
Farmville, Virginia
(November, 2004)
Construction has begun on Poplar Hill Golf Club in Farmville, Virginia. The 18 hole championship course, designed by architect, Rick Robbins, is the center piece of a 1060 acre master planned mixed-use residential/resort community in Prince Edward County in central Virginia. The property is located 4 miles from downtown Farmville and sixty miles southwest of Richmond. The master plan for the community includes the golf course and clubhouse, an inn and executive conference center and approximately 1000 to 1200 residential units including single family homes, golf villa duplex units, townhouse units, and condominiums. >> Read more

From Wall Street Journal
‘Rembrandt’ of Courses Will Draw Golfers To Place With a Past
Built Over Toxic-Waste Site, New Jersey Links Seeks Moneyed Manhattanites Retirement Funds
By JOSEPH PEREIRA
JERSEY CITY, N.J.—At a projected cost of $129 million, the golf course under construction here on the banks of New York Harbor is one of the most expensive ever built. The budget for the Liberty National Golf Course project surpasses the $39 million casino boss Steve Wynn spent building a course outside Las Vegas, and the $105 million that Donald Trump is spending on a new Los Angeles links. It’s a lot of money to sink into anything built on a toxic-waste site.
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From Robb Report
Liberty for the Select Few
When it opens in 2006, this club's tee times could be among the most coveted.
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