South Gleason Park Golf Course (Abandoned) in Gary, Indiana

Gary is entertaining offers for redevelopment on the historic but little used South Gleason Golf Course just south of the Borman Expressway in its Midtown neighborhood.

Previous Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson put the 18-hole, par 71 public golf course near Indiana University Northwest on the market in 2018, when Gary was staring down a $17 million budget hole.

Last August, now-mayor Jerome Prince was informed of an offer on the property, he said Friday in a radio interview on WLTH.

"There are several city assets that have been up for sale for a while," he said.

Originally known as Riverside Park, South Gleason Park dates back to 1920 and features a clubhouse designed by the famed architect George Maher. But lately the golf course on the south side of the Little Calumet River has suffered from inactivity, and the city has been forced to subsidize its operations, Prince said.

"From a data-drive perspective, one of the things that really jumped out was our numbers," Prince said on WLTH. "Comparatively speaking, the closest golf course is Turkey Creek, which had 55,000 rounds of golf played there compared to our 5,000 back in 2018. That in itself suggests we should have taken a different look at the golf course."
The Gary Redevelopment Commission has approved the sale of the South Gleason Park Golf Course and Gilroy Field, both historical remnants of the city’s glory days, to a private Illinois equity firm for $9 million. The sale contract is contingent upon the successful rezoning of the 18-hole public golf course that opened in 1928. Architect George W. Maher designed the clubhouse in a Tudor revival style with locker rooms, showers, a restaurant and golf shop.
The commission accepted the purchase offer from Bradford Equities LLC in a 3-2 vote in a special Zoom meeting Friday afternoon, but development could face rezoning hazards.
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