The former Calverton Links golf course will likely become a solar farm, according to an article published last month in the Riverhead News-Review.
The course, which has sat untouched since it abruptly closed for business in the fall of 2013, was sold last May for $3.5 million to developer Parviz Farahzad and a group called Bashi Calverton Links LLC.
As written in the News-Review:
In December, the LIPA Board of Trustees announced a number of locations it had selected for potential solar panel farms on Long Island. One of them was listed as being a deal with San Francisco-based sPower Solar to put a solar farm ’93between 100 and 200 Edwards Avenue, on the west side, and between 400 and 500 Edwards Avenue, on the east side of Edwards Avenue.’94
Neither LIPA nor sPower would be more specific at the time, although the address of Calverton Links is 149 Edwards Avenue. — Tim Gannon, Riverhead News-Review, 3/19/2015
Travelers driving past the property on Edwards Avenue in Calverton will notice a new 45-acre expanse of solar panels on a former sod farm directly across the street from the course. The Links itself sits overgrown on the west side of the road.
The article states that in the event approval for the solar farm is denied, the land will likely be sold.