Changes are in store at Florida Keys Country Club, where a prospective ownership group plans facility improvements and new development.
An entity led by Marvin Rappaport, a developer in the Keys, has contracted to buy the 53-year-old club, which has been suffering from what a board member described to the Florida Keys Keynoter as “age and the recession.” If the sale is consummated, Rappaport plans to upgrade Florida Keys’ Mark Mahannah-designed golf course and build a new clubhouse. The club’s existing clubhouse will be razed and replaced with 13 cottages and a 60-room hotel.
“We’re going to have to spend some money to make that course what it should be,” one of Rappaport’s partners told the newspaper.
Florida Keys, which was originally known as Sombrero Country Club, once had as many as 200 members. Today it has fewer than 50.