During this Wednesday’s Tallahassee City Commission meeting, elected officials will consider a proposal to sell the city-owned land currently leased to the Capital City Country Club.
The City of Tallahassee received a letter of interest and an appraisal report of the City-owned property at 833 Santa Rosa Drive from Capital City Country Club to purchase the parcel for $1,150,000.
At the September 17, 2025, City Commission meeting, the Commission directed the City Manager to obtain a secondary appraisal and prepare a proposal to sell the parcel to the Country Club for Commission consideration.
The second appraisal values the golf course property at $1,255,000. The appraisal represents the market value of the property as a golf course in fee simple ownership and assumes restrictions and covenants limiting the property’s future use to a golf course. The valuation did not consider any assumptions for further development of the parcel for ‘highest and best use’ given the inconsistency of those scenarios with current lease terms, the property’s land use category, and Commission direction.
The agenda notes that the Florida A&M University Board of Trustees submitted a letter of support to the City of Tallahassee offering “enthusiastic support for the sale of the golf course to the Capital City Country Club” requesting the Commission’s unanimous support to sell the land and end the lease, allowing FAMU an important role in the Country Club’s future.
Additionally, the Country Club and FAMU signed an MOU formalizing the commitment to hosting collegiate golf competitions for FAMU upon completion of course improvements; FAMU Golf Team access for practice; hosting events and fundraisers benefiting the FAMU student body; and events and programs for the betterment of the City of Tallahassee and the community.
Notices of the potential disposition were mailed to 608 adjacent and surrounding property owners and residents within 1,000 feet of the golf course. To date, approximately 12 responses have been received as a result of the notifications.
The Myers Park Neighborhood Association provided a position statement on the sale of the golf course, including an example easement, expressing a preference that the City continue to lease the property to the Country Club, or provisional support for the sale of the golf course under detailed conditions restricting the use of the property as a golf course and commemorate burial sites, and preserving the property’s natural and historic resources and scenic open space in perpetuity.
The sale proposal includes a Cemetery Commemoration and Maintenance Agreement to honor the unmarked African American graves located on the Country Club property.
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David, I have been in the local commercial appraisal business over 2 decades and have appraised many subdivisions and units of subdivisions that are household names in Tallahassee. Respectfully, you are quite incorrect here.
Y’all do know citizens make their wishes and opinions know without going to a commission meeting to grandstand on TV.. I know from when I was on the commission I would receive hundreds of more calls letters, emails text and in person from constituents, then show up at a commission meeting ?! So if they only voted the way activist groups and individuals that show up at City Commission meetings. Told them to. The City would be in more trouble than it is! ?
How about just leaving it all as is and if the Banks wont loan them any Money, maybe the City can make them a Simple Interest Loan for 30 Years so they can fix up the place.
The appraisal is correct for limiting the usage to a public golf course. And the intent is to sell it to the country club and continue operating it that way to keep development away.
@David T. Hawkins Sadly you are not the demographic they will sell the golf course to. You might actually want to make it profitable.
If I can raise $1,300,000 can I buy the Golf Course?
FAMU is not entitled to special decision-making input. If it wants to have golf team access or access for any other purpose, FSU and Tallahassee State College must have the same. All events, and the responsibility for their conduct, must be on the host of the events, including indemnification of the taxpayers for damage or mishaps.
Something is rotten in Denmark… So, CCCC says they want to buy the property from the city and they have an appraisal for 1.5 million dollars. Then the city says they want their own appraisal. Their next move is to say we’ll take 1.25 million dollars for it.
Psst… the purpose of getting your own appraisal is to get more money, not less.
It seems the city commission has moved on from suspecting we are all a bunch of morons, to being absolutely sure of it. Why don’t they just give it to them like they did with the land for that Opera House no one was clammouring for?
So they will auction off a parcel in the north west but not hold a public auction for this parcel?
That property is worth waaaaaay more than $1.25 million. If the city is going to sell it we might as well get market value for it.
So the city is going to sell it for pennies on the dollar because it must continue to be run as a golf course that looses money?
The Value of this Property should be closer to $12,000,000 to $20,000,000 as is. A Developer can build about 1250 Homes with Roads, Sidewalks and Green Spaces and sell the Lots to build on for $75,000 each for a total of $93,750,000 just for the Lots, the Profit from each Home is Gravy.