Doug Eddow News Today

A few years ago, Oceanside’s then-Center City Golf Course, affectionately known as “Goat Hill” was fighting for its life, unable to compete with better-maintained properties and in the cross hairs of city officials who said the high-profile city-owned site off Interstate 5 could be put to more lucrative uses.

The skydiving business has taken off in a big way since new owners took over about three years ago.

Soccer fields are among the first of many uses planned for Oceanside's old sand mine property.