Hudson Golf Club will Close After this Season

Hudson Golf Club will close at the end of the season with the hopes of being redeveloped into a business park.

“After serving the Hudson community since the 1950s, the financial viability of the golf course is simply unsustainable,” Chris Hanson told the Leader-Telegram last week. Despite investments and other efforts to increase play, “we have not found a financially sustainable business model.”

The course sits on 140 acres of property that is currently zoned as residential.

In 2011, Hanson approached the Hudson School District and offered to donate up to 65 acres of land for a new secondary school. He later withdrew the offer.

Hanson Bros. is interested in having the property rezoned as commercial, the newspaper reports.

No tenants have been identified, but Hanson’s lawyer, Jeff Redmon is quoted by the Hudson Star-Observer as saying: “This really only works if you have a big box store.”

In order to rezone the property, and make an amendment to the city’s comprehensive plan, the proposal will have to go before the Planning Commission and the Common Council.