By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
The project planned for the area near the Juab/Utah
County border is in danger of dying.
Developers met with the Juab County Commission a few
years ago and received permission to cross the county line
with the development which was supposed to be a golf course
surrounded by deluxe, upper-scale homes.
The property is now scheduled for auction Oct. 3 but,
even though the sales office for Summit Ridge Development in
Santaquin is empty, city officials from Santaquin hope the
project is not dead.
"Some of the funding didn't transpire, and now they're
reorganizing," said Gale Lim, of Gale Lim Construction. Gale
Lim Construction was the company hired to build the golf
course portion of the project.
The Ambush Golf and Country Club was scheduled to open
in July, according to the Troon Golf Web site.
The golf course was part of a proposed 2,200-acre
Summit Ridge Development in south Santaquin.
However, club properties were listed in a notice of
trustee's sale earlier this week, with parcels resulting in
the clubhouse parcel being separated from the golf course
holes.
The plans for Summit Ridge included homes, commercial
properties, a golf course and a health center designed to
provide home-based health care services to residents through
technology.
A few years ago, Santaquin city council members
annexed the property for the project and the developer
planned to sell bonds to finance it.
The bottom fell out of the market and financing the
project became difficult.
The consideration amount on the trust deed for the
golf course and country club property was more than $7.5
million.
Santaquin was not injured by the problem Troon Golf is
facing.
"It hasn't cost the city one penny," said Santaquin
City Councilman Walter Callaway.
Lim's company started work on the golf course, grading
nine holes before construction halted.
Progress on the project was designed in phased-in
degrees.
Several loan institutions have been receptive to the
plans for phasing in the various stages.
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