What’s next for Glasgow development at former Germantown Country Club?
The former Germantown Country Club grounds could soon take a new shape.
Farmington Kimbrough Development Group (FKDG), the developers, will go before the Germantown Board of Aldermen on Monday, seeking approval on Glasgow Planned Unit Development’s final phase one plan. The phase one plan includes 150 single-family residential units.
The development will include 366 homes when all three phrases are completed.
The Germantown Planning Commission recommended approval of phase one’s final plan at its Dec. 7 meeting.
Phase one of Glasgow includes 12 common open space areas with private streets, guest parking, fountains, detention ponds, landscaped medians, a clubhouse, a swimming pool, a pickleball court, cluster mailbox units, pocket parks, pedestrian trails and a 100-foot wide buffer area around the perimeter of the development.
The first phase will cover about 74 acres of the 145-acre development with 129 5,000-square-foot lots and 21 6,750-square-foot lots.
The common open space will also cover about 39 acres.
With board approval, FKDG will also dedicate the pedestrian trail system as parkland, according to the staff report.
History of the Germantown Country Club project
The Germantown Country Club went under contract with FKDG in September 2020, and the group has worked on site plans since then.
In a letter from ownership to members, the Germantown Country Club announced its closure in January 2019 citing financial issues. It officially closed in February 2019. Since then FKDG kept an eye on the property.
The City of Germantown bid on the property in April 2019, intending to turn the club into a park, but city officials said its $2.49 million bid was rejected.
Arizona-based Millennium Companies said it entered into an agreement in July 2019 to buy the property, but in March 2020 it announced it ended talks to buy the club.
Millennium Companies planned to turn the site into a subdivision with single-family homes, condos, a nine-hole golf course and a park. It opted out after trouble compromising with neighbors
The Anderson family owned the club for years, then it was transferred into Mary Anderson’s trust before her death in 2018.
Dima Amro covers the suburbs for The Commercial Appeal and can be reached at Dima.amro@commercialappeal.com or on Twitter @Amrodima.