Niebur keeping busy despite building slowdown

Golf Course News, Nov 2002 by Overbeck, Andrew

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - While work continues on Coldwater Golf Links in Ames, Iowa (see story above), golf course builder Niebur Golf has several other ongoing projects proceeding coast to coast in spite of a slowdown in course construction.

"The housing market has been keeping us alive," said president Joe Niebur. "All but eight of our 10 projects are in housing developments."

Current projects include: a Trilogy at Redmond Ridge for Shea Homes in Redmond, Wash. Work on the Gary Panks-designed 18-hole course will be completed this year.

An 18-hole course designed by Rick Phelps in Falcon, Colo. It is due to open in fall 2003.

Highland Meadows GC in Windsor, Colo. Work just started on the 18-hole course designed by Art Schaupeter.

* Art Hills' White Clay Creek GC in Wilmington, Del. The course will be finished this fall.

* 18-hole addition by Robert Trent Jones II at Chenal CC in Little Rock Ark. The course will open later this year.

* Three Crowns GC in Casper, Wyo. for British Petroleum. The 18-hole Robert Trent Jones II-designed course will be finished in fall 2003.

* A nine-hole addition to Boone CC in Boone, Iowa. Work was completed in September.

In addition to this work, Niebur Golf also is starting on jobs in Lansing, Mich. and Beckett Golf Club in New Jersey. The firm will also be opening a satellite office in Scottsdale, Ariz., this fall that will be staffed by Kent Neville.

"We want to get closer to the action down there," said Niebur.