The 130-acre parcel is, collectively, two former garbage dumps that have been closed for decades. It's located south of South Boulevard Road, east of Dequindre Road, right next to Troy Beaumont Hospital.

One of the trash sites was owned by the city, and is known as the Troy Dump, and the other was privately owned by J. Fons Co. of Detroit, who owned many garbage sites in Oakland County in the 1950s and '60s.

Assistant City Manager Gary Shripka says the city has been waiting years to build a second city golf course. The Sylvan Glen Municipal Golf Course, on Rochester Road makes at least $250,000 a year with 50,000 golfers a year playing all 18 holes. The course also receives income from winter events and the clubhouse.