Jeff,
I must have known every one of those dozen members at Riverside. BTW, this project failed for three main reasons. #1, the Hunt family member who was the lead principal got into a messy divorce, and, as I recall, Riverside was at the heart of the property distribution battle.
#2, the original plans were much closer to a Dallas National model complete with a much larger clubhouse and member/ guest housing right on premise. When Meridian Savings (mainly Gary Sibley) acquired it, there was no way it could finish the grandiose plans of the original developer started as both Sibley and his partner, Jimmy Wolf, were already fighting the Feds to keep their S&L open and stay out of jail.
#3, anyone who has lived in Arlington for any period of time had seen that the course was in the middle of the flood way, and most understood that water is not easily contained. Of course, this proved out two years in a row when the finished course was plagued with back to back 100 year events, two or three times in the first year. What a mess for American Golf who by then had acquired the property via a sealed bid from an FDIC contractor.
I've never wanted to live on a golf course for privacy reasons. We are indeed fortunate to live where we do, well within a half an hour of just about everything but an ocean and cool weather. Everything has a downside.
I was at the Walmart by the stadium recently. The Cowboys site seems to be moving forward nicely. That whole part of town is becoming quite scary. Having been spending quite a bit of time south of Los Angeles this year, it reminds me of some of the areas there.