By Paul Maryniak | Ahwatukee Foothills News
Lawyers in the 8-year-long battle over the Ahwatukee Lakes Golf Course fight last week filed their closing arguments in a phase of the case that could cost course owner ALCR as much as $2 million.
Attorney Tim Barnes, who represents homeowners Linda Swain and Eileen Breslin, wants Superior Court Judge Melissa Iyer Julian to impose the penalty on ALCR for alleged violations of another judge’s 2020 schedule for reopening the site.
In 2020, Judge Theodore Campagnolo set September 2022 as the deadline for reopening the course, which ALCR’s predecessor company closed in 2013.
Though a third judge allowed ALCR to delay a full opening of the 18-hole executive course until mid-October of last year, Barnes contends that the company left various parts of the course in disrepair and had failed to build a proper clubhouse to replace the one that was destroyed in a mysterious fire in 2016.
