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For those of us who have long advocated for a bayside park where the old USA Gulf Pines Golf Course stood at Brookley, last week saw that dream come to a bittersweet end — but hopefully more sweet than bitter, as Bighead Todd might say.

Last Thursday the USA Foundation announced it had come to an agreement to sell the 290 acres it owns next to the Brookley Aeroplex to 24/7 Development Partners of Alabama LLC for $45 million. That announcement was the foot on the throat of the grandiose dreams some in our community — myself included — harbored for turning that entire 290 acres into “Mobile’s Living Room.”

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