Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Wheeling and Dealing in Richmond
- Read many of the stories about private golf clubs these days, and you would think they were a dying breed. Then you read an article like this, from Thursday's edition of the Richmond, Va., business...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- 'I Believe The Good Lord Sent Him'
- There's a brief profile of James C. Justice III, the man who's buying the beleaguered Greenbrier resort for $20 million, in today's Washington Post. In addition to learning about the cold mines he sold to...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Foreclosure For Magnolia Green
- Magnolia Green, a major Chesterfield, County, Va., development that includes a nearly completed golf course by Nicklaus Design (pictured), is in foreclosure, the Richmond Times-Dispatch is reporting. The project is to be sold at auction...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Union Deal At The Greenbrier
- Unions at the Greenbrier have reached agreements with the West Virginia golf resort that should allow it to be sold a unit of Marriott, the AP is reporting. The agreements now have to be approved...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Trump Sets New Fees at Lowes Island
- In February, Donald Trump added to his golf course portfolio by buying the Lowes Island Club, a 36-hole private club on the banks of the Potomac River in Loudon County, Va., for $18 million. At...
Blog: Campus Insider
- NCAA women's D-I regional bids handed out
- Newly crowned Pac-10 champion Arizona State, UCLA and Virginia, three of the top five teams in the latest Golf World/NGCA coaches’ poll, earned the three top seeds as the NCAA Division I women’s golf committee...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Greenbrier's Assets Listed
- The Greenbrier Resort's bankruptcy paperwork is on file now, showing $141.7 million in assets and $107.4 million in liabilities. Among the assets, the Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail reports, are $97.6 million in real property that...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Ritz Carlton Sells Virginia's Creighton Farms
- Three years ago, the Ritz Carlton luxury hotel chain made its first foray in the housing community market, joining a group of developers in buying Creighton Farms, a 900-acre luxury community wrapped around a Jack...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Greenbrier Files For Chapter 11; Marriott to Acquire
- The famed Greenbrier Resort filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Thursday, while also announcing the framework of a deal whereby the troubled West Virginia facility would be acquired by Marriott.According to this Associated Press story, Greenbrier's...
Blog: Deeds and Weeds
- Bright Spots in Virginia
- As in virtually every other state in the country, the golf economy in Virginia is feeling the effects of the sluggish economy. Two of the state's 341 golf facilities declared bankruptcy in the fourth quarter...
Magazine
- 2007-2008 Best in State Rankings: Virginia
- We rank the top venues in Virginia
Magazine
- 2007-2008 Best in State Rankings: Virginia
- We rank the top venues in Virginia
