A New Chapter Begins: Greenway Golf and the City of Alameda Reach Settlement
- Jun 4
- 3 min read
COMMUNITY NEWS · JUNE 2026
After four years of legal dispute, a resolved agreement clears the way for decades of investment, growth, and community at Corica Park.
Greenway Golf and the City of Alameda have reached a formal settlement, resolving a legal dispute that stretched across four challenging years. For Greenway Golf owners Avani and Umesh Patel and the entire team that pours its heart into Corica Park every single day, this moment is more than a legal milestone. It's the beginning of a chapter we've been working toward since we first set foot on this remarkable piece of Alameda's public land.
This settlement isn't about looking back. It's about what comes next — and what comes next is extraordinary.
"Corica Park is not just a golf course. It is a living, breathing public space — one that belongs to every resident of Alameda and every person in the Bay Area who walks through its gates."
— GREENWAY GOLF
What the Settlement Means
The agreement between Greenway Golf and the City of Alameda includes new, meaningful protections built into the lease — guardrails that ensure fair dealing for both parties and provide Greenway Golf with the stability it needs to invest in Corica Park over the next four decades.
Those aren't just words on paper. That's a forty-year commitment to this land, this community, and this sport. It means capital improvements. It means growing youth programs. It means more access, more events, and more reasons for people of all backgrounds and skill levels to call Corica Park their second home.
Why This Place Matters So Much to Us
Greenway Golf has always believed that public golf courses are some of the most democratic spaces a city can offer. Where else can a first-time junior golfer share a fairway with a lifelong player, surrounded by open sky and the sounds of a city that's alive around them? Corica Park is exactly that kind of place — and Alameda is exactly the kind of community that deserves it.
Over the past five years, we've seen what's possible here. Youth programs have introduced hundreds of kids to the game. Families have gathered on weekends. Nonprofits have used this space to build something real. Small businesses have grown alongside us. Every step of that progress has reinforced what we've always known: Corica Park isn't just an amenity. It's the infrastructure for community life in Alameda.
That's why we fought so hard to protect it — and why we're so grateful the path forward is now clear.
"Greenway Golf is deeply grateful and humbled by the unwavering support of golfers, parents, youth, coaches, teachers, nonprofit partners, small businesses, and residents who share our vision of transforming Corica Park into a sustainable open space for everyone."
— AVANI & UMESH PATEL, OWNERS, GREENWAY GOLF
Thank You, Alameda
If there's one thing these four years have shown us, it's that this community shows up. The golfers who teed off every morning. The parents who brought their kids back week after week. The teachers and coaches who trusted us with their students. The nonprofits, neighbors, and small business owners who wrote letters, made calls, and simply kept believing in what we're building together.
This settlement is as much yours as it is ours.
Eyes Forward
With the Greenway Golf and City of Alameda settlement now in place, we are fully focused on what we do best: running one of the most exceptional public golf experiences in the Bay Area and continuing to grow the open, inclusive, vibrant space that Corica Park is becoming.
There is so much more to come — more improvements, more programs, more ways for every corner of this community to see themselves at Corica Park.
We are grateful, we are energized, and we are ready.
See you on the course.
