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Mission’s economic arm says they have found a buyer for the Cimarron Country Club for $2.5 million.

Teclo Garcia, CEO for the Mission Economic Development Corp., says they expect to close on the property in March.

However, since they are in a feasibility period, they are currently not able to reveal the buyer’s identity.

The feasibility period ends in April, but there is the possibility of closing early.

Garcia added that the purchaser had put down “several thousand dollars” as a hold — a deposit of “earnest money,” he says, that the city’s EDC will keep if the unnamed buyer walks out.

“We are very confident. They’re excited,” said Garcia.

“We think that this is going to go very well.”

Garcia said he doesn’t know exactly what the purchaser’s plans for the facilities are at this time, but assured that they were going to “sink in a vast amount of money to improve it.”

“I don’t know their plans — yet. I couldn’t comment on them, yet, until it’s closed,” said Garcia. “Until we make the final sale — they sign, we sign — and then we can reveal more details.”

This comes nearly one year after the city and the EDC purchased it for $5 million — a price tag the two entities split.

They bought it from Black Diamond Developers, the Kamel family, which had owned the property since August 2020, The Monitor previously reported.

The Monitor also reported that according to Daniel Kamel, the property’s 200-acre golf course worth $20 million was “a non-cash charitable donation” from Black Diamond.

For some background, Teclo says the city purchased the Cimarron in February 2025, and then transferred it to its economic arm for $2.5 million, so that they could “treat it more like a regular business.” That allowed them to hire a broker to assist in the sale — something the city wouldn’t have been able to do because of Texas’s procurement rules.

The $2.5 million from the finalized sale will also go back to the city, “so the city will be made whole, and the taxpayers won’t be on the hook for that,” said Garcia.

Garcia explained that they are letting the Cimarron go for half of what it purchased it for because of its “dilapidated” state. He says they dropped the price tag to attract more people to the table, and give them the financial opportunity to “return it to its former glory.”

“For many years, the Cimarron was the gem of the Valley. It was the place for society, for golfing, for events,” said Garcia.

“It really was, in its own way, the belle of the ball.”

Garcia says consultants advised him that it would take $18 million to bring the facilities “back to snuff.”

He said to truly understand the Cimarron’s gradual decline, you’d have to go back a few owners.

“I don’t know exactly why the golf course or the country club owners did not continue to reinvest in the facilities, in terms of the links, and the greens, and the clubhouse, and all the facilities over time. You’d have to ask them,” said Garcia. “But the fact is, they did not, and slowly, it started getting dated.”

He said that he knows people love the Cimarron, and want to see it restored — something he doesn’t blame them for. According to Garcia, the EDC evaluated the buyer’s credibility thoroughly, and he feels that with the sale and investment, “(the Cimarron) will turn into something super, super great.”

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