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Church That Owns Detroit's Rogell Golf Course Refuses to Clean Up Eyesore

July 24, 2014, 6:34 AM

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Fox 2's Ron Savage reports that for more than 100 years Rogell Golf Course in northwest Detroit was a true gem.

But the grand Greater Grace Temple, which owns the course, shut it down in 2013 and the place has turned into a "weedfest," Savage reports.

Neighbors want the church to clean up the eyesore at 7 Mile Road and Lasher, but so far, they've had no luck. Fox 2 reports that the church, which is responsible for cleaning up the property,  refuses to clean it up.

"The grass is getting to the point now where, I mean, you're getting rodents. You're getting problems. It's like a blight area," says area resident Kenneth Tansil.

Greater Grace Temple, one of Detroit's grand churches, bought the 120-acre, 18-hole golf course in 2007 for about $2 million from the city of Detroit, but it was never profitable. In 2013, it shut down the course and decided to sell to a company that was going to convert it to a cemetary.

But one neighbor says the deal didn't go through after it was learned that the property was a flood zone. 

Detroit City Administration tells Fox 2's Ron Savage the church is still responsible for mowing the lawn.

Savage inquired at Greater Grace for a comment but he reports he was told Bishop Charles Ellis is out of town and no one else can comment.

 

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