A long-ago closed golf course in Las Vegas was sold at auction for $2.8 million to an undisclosed buyer, according to a story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The report states Silverstone Golf Course was sold at a Clark County, Nevada, treasurer’s office trustee auction on May 8. It went for the minimum bid. County officials did not name the buyer but said it was not the previous owner.
The outgoing owner, who bought the course in 2015 but never reopened it, called the saga a nightmore and the recent history shows a series of problems. The Review-Journal reports:
All told, the sale marks a new chapter for a golf course that has been closed for nearly a decade, saw its boarded-up clubhouse destroyed in a fire by suspected arsonists, and whose now-outgoing owner pushed the property into bankruptcy protection twice and battled in court with the surrounding homeowners’ association.
Silverstone is the far northwest part of the city on the fringes of the desert.
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