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pd�ooneq SAh. .'AUL PIONEER PRESS 1 ST MAY 1991 ORS N WEDNESDAY SECTION 6 PAGES N,E B �YAM �"°NnRTT� ` Roseville, New lifightoA., se ek" olf courses g ■ 511b111 tlS eye profits each' have their own nine hole, paz-three And the New Brighton City Council be converted to a golf course, leaving at to boost ety,budgets courses: Officials say the ;;Cedazhobn „voted last week to convert a 20 acre; 'course.in cit Ued least 10 acres for a neighborhood pparazk., ,,: Roseville and Brightwood Hills in New _ Brighton have, made. tidy W- site.to: a.drfving range next ,. spring. The city hired Dahlgren, Shatdlow & Uban Inc., the firm that does most of the ANN BAKER sraFF vmrrEn comes `; For, the Roseville course,, the choice' city planning, to examine contours, soils, M In -a time of government deficits and site is Acorn Park south' of County Road. vegetation and other factors that might '" retrenchments„ any such incomes look Tbe.prospect'nf "profits C between Western Avenue and Rice; make a golf course feasible at Acorn reaping from fhe popularity bf goL bas led: two nor ti ern su ur bs tp take;steps leading to adds -gam public official . ': the Roseville City Council last week Street `' g, We've. been talking about it for a long.! - Park or at any other site in Roseville. The study is due in September. t.b .0o poliI.' golf facilities ". 46ted':to spend ;20,000 of Cedazhehn's "budgef and ` .time, ' said Botit `Bieracheid ; Roseville The New Brighton driving range would Already, ioseville and New `Brighton reserves to study developing another golf course in town. parks and recreation --director. He added that only 46 acre of Acorn Park would GOLF camrium on 2 ► GOLF/Courses are money-makers 'f V 0own UED.PROM I be a temporary use, probably for two or three years, until offices or other private commercial develop- ment can be lured. to the site, which lies northeast of Interstate 694 and Old Highway 8. The land, once a demolition landfill, is being used to stockpile road material for the widening and reconstruction of I-694. That work is expected to be fin- ished in September. Contractor Shafer Construction Co. has agreed to cover the site with earth excavated for the highway widen- ing. The firm also will grade the land and plant grass seed, which should be growing by next spring, according to community develop- ment director Kevin Locke. The site is known as "the Miller property," because owner John Miller donated three -fourths of it to the city, and the city bought the remainder on a low -interest $375,000 contract for deed, with the goal of promoting develop- ment along Old Highway 8. Maurice Anderson, parks and recreation director, said, "We're projecting we'll recover all our expenses in two years, take the netting down, remove the fence, walk away, and we'll have had 20,000 golfers with a chance to go out and hit balls for two years." And should the driving range stays open for five years, the way Anderson and other city staff members expect, it should draw revenues of $530,000. If the land j purchase costs and other expenses totaling $390,000 are subtracted, that would leave the city with $140,000 in profits. One other use for the property, a soccer field, was requested by local soccer enthusiasts. Anderson said his department found another area for a soccer field, near Rice Creek Shopping Center on Silver Lake Road. Sod has been laid and playing is expected to start there this month. But for the Miller property, the key consideration was producing local revenue. "Like every other government, we're a little nervous right now," Anderson said.