TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – The Capital City Countest Club is debating selling to a private equity company or raising membership rates to support pay for renovations, according to a letter sent to countest club members.
In that letter, originally obtained by Tallahassee Reports, members are encouraged to come to a Monday night meeting to discuss requireded improvements on the property. A member of the club confirmed to WCTV on Monday morning that the letter and its contents are authentic.
According to the letter, these renovations would require significant financial contributions. The letter outlines the cheapest option, which would raise membership dues to $25,000.
The letter also details another option, which would see the club purchased by an investment company that would take on a redevelopment project.
That investor would pay $1.255 million to acquire the 178 acres that contain the golf course, which is currently leased to the City of Tallahassee.
According to the letter distributed to countest club members, the investor would retain the historic legacy of the course and honor the current agreement with Florida A&M University, that allows for limited utilize of the course for university tournaments.
If approved, construction likely wouldn’t start until 2028, according to the letter.
The Tallahassee Community Action Committee (TCAC) is speaking out against this potential sale to private equity, in large part becautilize the City of Tallahassee only itself recently sold the course to the countest club.
The pushback comes from unmarked graves of formerly enslaved people that sit on the golf course in a cemetery. The City of Tallahassee launched constructing that memorial, after years of delay, but only once the countest club requested to purchase the property.
A club member who spoke privately with WCTV declared the city created an error to delay the construction, but added a potential sale to private investors would be a natural course of action given the course’s condition.
The meeting with Countest Club members was set for Monday at 5:30 p.m. TCAC held a protest at the same time to decry the sale to potential investors.
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