image description — If Waubeeka closes, the nearly 200 acres could be broken up for housing lots.

Waubeeka Golf's Future Depends on Finding Buyer

By Andy McKeeveriBerkshires Staff
06:33PM / Friday, August 16, 2013Print Story | Email Story

The Goffs hope the reduced price will help attract a buyer who will keep the land as a golf course.

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Waubeeka Golf Links could be carved into housing lots if the business isn't sold soon.

Owner James Goff of Denver on Friday reduced the asking price for the golf course to $3.5 million — less than he paid for it — in hopes of ramping up interest.

If a buyer does not come forward, Waubeeka will be closed at the end of the season.

"It is our hope to find a buyer at this reduced price who will continue to operate Waubeeka as a golf course," Goff said in a prepared statement. "Regrettably, if that does not happen, it is anticipated that the golf operation will close down at year end, and conversion to other uses including housing will be considered."

The golf course was designed by Berkshire course legend Rowland Armacost, his only 18-hole creation, and opened in 1966; Golf Digest gives the public course a four out of five stars.

Alton & Westall Real Estate has been engaged to sell the land. Real estate agent Alan Marden said the course consists of 190 acres broken into three parcels. There are some lots on the land that could be used for housing, he said.

"We hope we can sell it as an ongoing golf course," Marden said, adding that asking price includes not only the land but the clubhouses and equipment. "There is a possibility of a housing component."

The Goffs purchased course in 2008 from the Ed Stawarz Family Trust for $4.2 million and made substantial improvements. Last year, a deal was in the offing to sell the course but it has since fallen through. The course had been on the market for $5 million.

"We had it for sale earlier but a previous deal to sell the property has fallen through, so we are putting it back on the market and at a reduced price," Goff said.

Marden says he hopes to find a buyer "as soon as possible" for all three contiguous parcels. He declined to comment on if there has been recent interest on the property.

"We were pleased to have sold Waubeeka to Jim and Jody and appreciate the opportunity to work with them to find a new buyer," said Marden in the statement announcing the reduction in price. "Our first priority will be to find someone who will keep this outstanding property operating as a golf facility, but it is a challenging environment for the golf world so we must look for all possibilities for appropriate utilization of this spectacular acreage."

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Advocates Request Pittsfield Office of Neighborhood Safety

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
05:23AM / Monday, August 31, 2026

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Advocates want an office of neighborhood safety within the City of Pittsfield following a string of gun violence incidents this summer.

Last week, during a virtual meeting, the Pittsfield Freedom Project called for public health interventions, such as violence interrupters, hospital violence intervention, and a neighborhood trauma response team.

"I'm sure everyone is aware; there have been at least four shootings. I've heard from people in the community that there have been more than that, but these are the ones that have resulted in injuries," said filmmaker Jenny Herzog.

"Resulting in one homicide and at least seven injured over the last couple of months."

Recent shooting incidents in Pittsfield ranged from June 18, when a person died after being shot in the area of Tyler Street and Pleasure Avenue, and another person was injured, to August 18, when one person was injured after shots were fired on Circular Avenue.

Herzog produced the documentary "Hear Me," which explores the impact of poverty and gun violence on young people in Berkshire County. Attendees also heard from local advocate and fourth-generation Pittsfield resident Kamaar Taliaferro, CEO of the Massachusetts Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence Ruth Zakarin, and Ben Snyder, a sociology professor at Williams College.

"Here we are again in another cycle of gun violence, without the tools we need, seemingly without the will to demand the tools, and even if we did, without leadership that would even understand what we're asking for," Taliaferro said.

"And it's not like we don't have the resources to build what we need. At least $1.3 million has come into Pittsfield every year for the past six years, targeted to interrupt the cycle of gun and gang violence that we are in this moment. And dating back even further, Pittsfield has received gun violence prevention money and has received gang violence intervention money since like 2014. Since the last time there was this like emergent cycle of gun violence in our community."