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Mundelein High School to restart bidding for Village Green golf course

Saying potential buyers didn't have enough time to properly prepare offers, Mundelein High School District 120 officials have scrapped recently received bids for the Village Green Country Club.

Administrators will develop a new bidding schedule that gives would-be buyers more time to review the village's building rules and craft their plans, Mundelein High spokesman Ron Girard said.

The District 120 board was tentatively scheduled to vote on an offer for the property Tuesday night, but instead moved to reboot the process.

"Bidders said they didn't have time to get all the information that they needed regarding village regulations or approvals," Girard said. "The (board) thought it best to start the process all over again in order to be fair."

The board will set a schedule for a new round of bids at its Aug. 22 meeting, Girard said.

Officials expect a homebuilder will buy the 18-hole golf course, which is on the southeast corner of Midlothian and Winchester roads.

The district paid $8.4 million for the 94-acre site in 2004. At the time, enrollment was expected to increase dramatically and officials thought they might need land for a second campus.

Those population projections didn't pan out, though, so the district didn't do anything with the site and golfers continue playing there.

The board voted in April to put Village Green on the market. At the time, the district's minimum price was $65,000 per acre.

District officials haven't yet decided if they'll sell part or all of the property. They're considering keeping about 40 acres for athletic fields.

Village Green has been operated since 2007 by a company called GolfVisions Management. GolfVisions pays the school district 5 percent of the course's gross revenue, with a minimum payment of $50,000 annually.

The district's agreement with GolfVisions expires in 2020 but may be terminated early.

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