Two offers have been made on sections of the former Kent State University Golf Course, and the university’s Board of Trustees voted Wednesday to allow the sales to go through.
One property, located at the corner of Route 59 and Powdermill Road, extends south to the railroad tracks crossing the course and is 41.77 acres, according to Dr. Mark Polatajko, Kent State’s senior vice president for finance and administration.
The Kent State Golf Course closed at the end of 2016 after 50 years in operation and a five-year trend of declining revenues and mounting operating losses. Kent State purchased the