TMRW Sports Group confirms it will rebuild in meeting with Palm Beach State College trustees.
The backers of a new indoor golf arena rising in Palm Beach Gardens are rethinking their commitment to an inflatable dome after a storm last week ripped the parachute-like canopy to shreds.
Meetings in the next few weeks with architects and engineers will determine if the Tiger Woods-backed TMRW Sports Group changes course and rebuilds with steel or concrete walls instead of an inflatable canopy.
Continue reading “Inflatable canopy may be out at Tiger Woods-backed golf arena”Construction disaster could delay January start date for indoor golf league planned for Palm Beach State College in Palm Beach Gardens.
A shambles.
The dream of a Tiger Woods-led golf league playing by January in front of ESPN cameras under a massive air-filled dome in Palm Beach Gardens got tossed to the wind this week by the twin hits of a temporary power outage and a wicked, windy Wednesday.
The rush to complete construction of the 1,500-seat arena in time for the new indoor TMRW Golf League, or TGL, to tee off on Jan. 9 now looks impossible to meet.
Continue reading “Tiger Woods’ golf canopy shredded after power loss, high winds”Former commissioner argues wording changes remove restrictions, could allow racetracks or water parks on vast undeveloped lands.
Martin County’s huge swaths of rural, undeveloped land are beginning to look a lot like a playground for the rich and famous. But that could change.
For years, developers, many from Palm Beach County, viewed golf resorts as the greatest return on their Martin County land investment.
Jupiter-based basketball legend Michael Jordan opened his exclusive Grove XXIII golf course in 2019. CityPlace developer and Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is proposing 36 holes on 1,200 acres a few miles to the west. A proposal from the builder of the revered Friar’s Head course on Long Island wants to replicate the exclusive, private golf-course experience on 3,900 acres in Martin County as well.
But causing the most stir is the proposal for a golf-course community from Discovery Land, a high-end vacation destination company catering to the likes of Tom Brady and George Clooney.
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