New Boulder City golf course approved

Jeffrey Libby

Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2001 | 11:51 a.m.

Jeffrey Libby

Boulder City residents could be teeing up on a second municipal golf course as soon as November 2002.

The City Council unanimously approved on Tuesday plans to request construction bids on three options for 450 acres southwest of Adams Boulevard and Veterans Memorial Drive.

Construction bids will include costs for an 18-hole course, a 27-hole course, and a 36-hole course. The 36-hole course would include nine lighted holes for night-time golfing.

All three options include plans for a $2 million clubhouse. Design plans for that "Early California style" building were also approved Tuesday.

Construction could begin in May.

The course is expected to help the existing municipal golf course. Employees there say they turn away twice as many people as they find tee times for each day. About 85,000 people golf there annually.

City officials said the course could generate more than $650,000 in its first year of operation, with profits expected to increase to as much as $1.5 million annually.

That infusion of cash will help defray costs to run a second water line to the city at a cost of $34 million. It will also help pay for a national lobbying firm hired by the city Tuesday.

The city will pay Washington, D.C.-based Cassidy and Associates $60,000 this year to lobby for federal funding for the second pipeline officials have billed as a way to secure the city's allotment from the Colorado River.

Cassidy and Associates is expected to also help Boulder City get a piece of congressional appropriations in other areas.