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The city of Mission and its EDC have announced its intent to sell the Cimarron Country Club less than a year after purchasing the property, the latest in what’s become a series of developments that have seesawed back and forth between multiple efforts to acquire and restore it back to its glory days.

According to a statement from Mission Mayor Norie Gonzalez Garza, which she read publicly at the Nov. 12 city council meeting and which was provided to The Monitor on Monday, the EDC is planning to sell the 200-acre golf course to a private party “with hopes of restoring the Cimarron’s recreational facilities.”

“We ask for everyone’s patience as the plans for the development and revitalization of this area come to fruition,” Gonzalez Garza read from her statement.

The council also heard resident concerns about the deteriorating state of the facilities during that meeting, concerns which the mayor acknowledged.

“The city is aware of the concerns expressed by residents of the Cimarron Home Owner’s Association and of the City regarding Valley Tennis Academy’s operations at the Cimarron’s recreational facilities,” the mayor continued to read from her statement. “The City and MEDC acquired the Cimarron facilities earlier this year. At the time, Valley Tennis Academy had an existing lease with the prior owner for use of the facilities. These facilities were not open to Public Use.”

Gonzalez Garza went on to say that on Aug. 18, the EDC and the academy entered into an amended lease agreement mutually agreed upon “to amend the original lease’s termination date to October 31, 2025.”

The city and EDC announced they had purchased the property in February for $5 million — split between the two entities — from Black Diamond Developers, which had owned the property since August 2020, The Monitor previously reported.

The EDC had planned to pay back its $2.5 million stake to the city via sales tax revenues.

The February sale marked a new beginning for the popular golf course, which enjoys the support of local advocates who hope Cimarron will be restored to its heyday as a golf course.

Club residents and the city had also planned to form a public improvement district to raise funds for its upkeep.

Such hope tempered concerns that were raised when the golf course was closed around a year after Black Diamond’s purchase, and again in November 2022 when they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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