A community group pressed its case last week for the Tampa Sports Authority to complete negotiations with area residents and the Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA, which has a city contract to operate a youth golf program at Rogers Park Golf Course. ...more

February 25, 2009

Details remain to be worked out, but the Tampa Sports Authority last week moved closer to resolving a neighborhood group's concerns about a proposed youth golf program at Rogers Park Golf Course. ...more

February 4, 2009

Details remain to be worked out, but the Tampa Sports Authority moved closer today to resolving concerns a neighborhood group has with a proposed youth golf program at Rogers Park Golf Course. ...more

January 26, 2009

Today TOBA 29th Dr. MLK Leadership Breakfast: 6:45 a.m.; Hyatt Regency Downtown, 211 N. Tampa St., Tampa; (813) 874-8622, www.toba-network.org. ...more

January 19, 2009

Rogers Park Golf Course has a special place in the hearts of Tampa's longtime black residents. ...more

December 27, 2008

The city's underground is pockmarked with now-dormant landfills, most dating to an era when municipal dumps were holes in the ground that needed filling. ...more

December 21, 2008

There was a time when the Rogers Park Golf Course was the one place in the city blacks could go for a round of golf or a family picnic. ...more

November 19, 2008

TAMPA With renovations under way at Rogers Park Golf Course, the Tampa Sports Authority has called for a review of a controversial contract that allows the YMCA to use the course in exchange for paying for upgrades. The authority's board of directors voted Monday night to schedule an emergency meeting with community leaders while the Tampa City Council and authority review the contract. The Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA plans to renovate the course's former clubhouse for its youth golf program, First Tee of Tampa Bay, a proposal that has raised concerns that the public park will be privatized. ...more

November 18, 2008

Nearly 30 residents attended a community forum Thursday night to air concerns about a 10-year, rent-free contract that allows the Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA to headquarter a youth golf program at Rogers Park Golf Course. ...more

November 15, 2008

Nearly 30 residents attended a community forum Thursday night to air concerns about a 10-year, rent-free contract that allows the Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA to headquarter a youth golf program at Rogers Park Golf Course. The East Tampa facility, at 7911 N. Willie Black Drive, is owned by the city and managed by the Tampa Sports Authority. The course, opened in 1952, was the only one open to blacks during segregation. ...more

November 14, 2008