The Santa Clara Golf de Otura has been dead in the water for a while, with changes of management and legal wrangles, but things are moving forward.
This spark of new life has to do with a legal breakthrough enabling the Town Council to issue permission to build 1,500 homes in Otura.
So, let’s go back in time (watch out for Morlocks!). Santa Clara began construction in 2005 and was sold as an idyllic housing complex surrounding a golf course, with spectacular views of the Sierra Nevada and a strategic location, just over ten minutes from the capital and thirty from the beach. What possibly could go wrong?
The 2008, world, financial crisis is what went wrong, off course. The developer filed for bankruptcy, leaving more than 1,500 of the planned 1,700 homes unfinished. Also unfinished was all the infrastructure: streetlights, roads, drainage systems, and a thousand other issues that prevented the Town Council from accepting the works as required by law, so everything came to a grinding halt. Permits for new homes could not be issued, nor could a single brick be moved.
Anyway, Santa Clara golf course staggered on before finally going bust in 2022 through a lack of irrigation water, golf-club members & funds so it wasn’t until 2025 when a Dutch investment fund Green Assets Capital BV bought the golf course, hired a Catalan, specialist company, Green Proyect, to carry out the project to reopen the golf course’s 18 holes, that things started to trickle forward.
If you pop along to Otura now you will see that they are strimming the greens, expelling the colonies of rabbits who had it all to themselves.
The Dutch holding company hasn’t actually said, “Lift off!” but the signs are that serious infrastructure management is underway in preparation for such an announcement.
(News: Otura, Vega, Granada, Andalucia)
Keywords: Golf Course, Santa Clara, Dutch Holding Company, Green Assets Capital BV, Green Proyect
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