{"id":1840,"date":"2015-09-09T18:27:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T18:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2015-09-09T18:36:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T18:36:48","slug":"it-appears-gillette-ridge-will-be-resurrected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/golf\/1840\/it-appears-gillette-ridge-will-be-resurrected","title":{"rendered":"It Appears Gillette Ridge will be Resurrected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gillette Ridge Golf Club, which was abandoned before the start of the 2015 golf season, appears to be on the way back.<\/p>\n<p>For the past few weeks grass has been mowed and the irrigation system has been running. There is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turfnet.com\/jobs\/j35387-golf-course-superintendent-gillette-ridge-golf-club-bloomfield-ct\">posting<\/a> for the superintendent position.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1842\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2015\/09\/IMG_0178-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1842\" class=\"wp-image-1842 size-tap-thumb-400\" src=\"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2015\/09\/IMG_0178-copy-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0178 copy\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2015\/09\/IMG_0178-copy-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2015\/09\/IMG_0178-copy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2015\/09\/IMG_0178-copy-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2015\/09\/IMG_0178-copy-175x130.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The reclamation of Gillette Ridge will not be an easy one. This is the 11th green photographed in July of this year.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Apparently, Century Golf Partners, part of the Arnold Palmer Golf Management network, will run Gillette Ridge.<\/p>\n<p>The Arnold Palmer-designed course in Bloomfield, Conn. was built on the campus of Cigna and owned by the company before being sold. As I wrote in a previous post:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to a Sept. 1, 2014\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hartfordbusiness.com\/article\/20140901\/PRINTEDITION\/308289946\/golf-course-manager-files-for-bankruptcy\">\u00a0story<\/a>\u00a0on HartfordBusiness.com, MDM Golf of Gillette Ridge, LLC, which owns the course, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August of 2014 . MDM is owned by former club professional and Connecticut resident Matt Menchetti.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCigna filed foreclosure against Menchetti\u2019s Bloomfield course over its failure to make payments on a $4.5 million mortgage,\u201d reads the story<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe property in question \u2014 the Gillette Ridge Golf Course \u2014 is on Cigna\u2019s Bloomfield campus. The insurer sold Menchetti\u2019s business the property and financed the deal. When it filed for foreclosure, Cigna said Menchetti\u2019s company still owed $3.9 million on the loan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to sources familiar with the situation, Cigna will regain ownership of the golf course and property.<\/p>\n<p>MDM sister entities managed the two municipal golf courses in Hartford and the one in East Hartford before having the contracts cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gillette Ridge Golf Club, which was abandoned before the start of the 2015 golf season, appears to be on&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/golf\/1840\/it-appears-gillette-ridge-will-be-resurrected\" title=\"ReadIt Appears Gillette Ridge will be Resurrected\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":1842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[1002364,554,410,1002354,6594],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf","category-courses-and-travel","tag-century-golf-partners","tag-connecticut","tag-arnold-palmer","tag-mdm","tag-gillette-ridge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/57\/2015\/09\/IMG_0178-copy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/anthonypioppi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}