USF one step closer to redeveloping The Claw golf course

Leadership at the University of South Florida have agreed on a plan to transform its defunct on-campus golf course The Claw into a “vibrant, mixed use destination” for both students and the community at large, the university announced Tuesday. 

The USF Board of Trustees voted to advance plans to turn 27 acres of the shuttered 138-acre golf course into what they call “the Fletcher District” — a public-private partnership with both student and regular housing developments, restaurants, retail, a hotel, a conference center, an academic research facility and recreation space.