City Accepts $3.8M Bid for Golf Course Housing Development

Robertson Brothers is expected to construct townhouses similar to these in its Sherman Oaks development on the former Normandy Oaks golf course. (Screenshot via Robertson Brothers)

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A 10-acre plot on the former Normandy Oaks golf course will soon be sprouting homes.

The Royal Oak City Commission accepted a $3.8 million bid from Robertson Brothers Homes, a developer with a history of development in the city, to buy the 10-acre development tract.

The next highest bid to buy the land was $3.2 million, submitted by Pulte Homes, The Daily Tribune reports.

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Development plans call for the construction of 78 townhouses, which will sell for around $240,000, and two-story single-family residences.

City Commissioner David Poulton said maximizing the sale of the property is “one of the most important decisions this body has made in a long time.”

Robertson Brothers, which has been building houses in Royal Oak since the 1940s, is completing development of 93 homes in three locations in the city.

Still to be decided is how park developments at the former golf course will shake out. Much depends on whether the city can work out a deal to partner with Oakland County to develop a park.

Voters in the city approved the sale of the city-owned Normandy Oaks golf course for housing and park development in 2014.