Developer wants to build nearly 1,000 apartments on this Augusta golf course

A metro-Atlanta developer is proposing to build nearly 1,000 apartments and townhomes on an Augusta golf course in a quiet neighborhood that’s fought off outside development before.

Marietta-based Proterra Development LLC owns the 125-acre property that borders Bobby Jones Expressway. Proterra is a client of locally based Cranston LLC, who is asking the city of Augusta to rezone about 28 acres of the former Green Meadows Golf Club to match the rest of the property, which allows multifamily dwellings.

If the request is approved, the developers estimate the project could be completed by the fall of 2028.

A concept plan filed with the city shows the property subdivided into four lots. Lot One shows 312 apartments in 13 three-story buildings. Lot Two will have 23 buildings containing 162 townhomes. Lot Three will have 10 three-story buildings with 240 apartments. Lot Four will have 12 three-story buildings with 288 apartments.

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Of the 977 apartments, 24 will be one-bedroom, 384 will have two bedrooms and 569 will have three.

The map also shows proposed amenities, such as a waking trail that weaves throughout the site. Two soccer fields would sit where the golf course’s first tee and fairway were.

The 18-hole course opened as Green Meadows Country Club in 1960, but the course's future began to fade after the 2016 death of its owner and operator, Kenny Miles Jr.

Residents in the surrounding Green Meadows Estates neighborhood like its low-traffic, low-crime atmosphere. Street names such as Par Drive, Birdie Drive and Eagle Drive run near the old course.

In 2020, a nonprofit wanted to establish a recovery treatment center for first responders in a former Episcopal convent at the end of Eagle Drive. Green Meadows neighbors hotly contested the proposal before Augusta commissioners, who voted against the center. Valor Station has since opened downtown in a Walker Street historic home.

The Augusta Planning Commission is scheduled to discuss the issue on April 1.