Top Golf out, Drive shack in @ old T.P. building? (1 Viewer)

[Domefan504]

Looks like Top Golf pulled out of buying old Times Picayune building but Drive Shack maybe in. Don't know much about Drive Shack but it sounds similar to Top Golf, and Dave&Busters.

http://realestate.nola.com/realestate-news/2018/03/drive_shack_times-picayune_sit.html

Drive Shack, a golf entertainment concept, is planning to open a location in the former Times-Picayune building on Howard Avenue. The investor group that owns the building will be meeting with neighbors next Wednesday (March 14) to discuss the potential redevelopment.

In a letter to neighbors, the investor group said the project is "still in its formative stage," but that Drive Shack is considering a 62,000-square-foot facility for the property at 3800 Howard Ave., including 90 indoor driving range bays, a restaurant and other entertainment spaces. There is no current construction timeline, but developers expect building could start as soon as August if everything moves forward, according to a copy of the letter filed with the city.

 

[Brees#winning]

Top golf moved to siegan lane in baton rouge

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[Domefan504]

There is also some sort of video game golf place in Clearview Mall next to Walk -On's but I never see anyone in that virtual golf place.

 

[TheMike62987]

I guarantee Top Golf did their homework and decided not to put a location at the old TP building. That is a terrible spot for a Top Golf.

 

[GW93]

I guarantee Top Golf did their homework and decided not to put a location at the old TP building. That is a terrible spot for a Top Golf.

It's a terrible spot for anything. I can't for the life of me imagine why the TP set up shop there, other than maybe it was a decent space for presses and delivery trucks.

 

[Brad Mojo]

Metairie already has a virtual golf place open for business:

https://www.loft18.com/

 

[Domefan504]

Metairie already has a virtual golf place open for business:

https://www.loft18.com/

Actually 2. I'm never see anyone in the one in Clearview Mall. I guess you could also count the one at Dicks Sporting Goods as well.

 

[Domefan504]

Here are the plans for Drive Shack


http://realestate.nola.com/realestate-news/2018/04/drive_shack_plans_new_orleans.html#incart_2box

It will be more than a year before Drive Shack opens its proposed $29 million golf entertainment complex in New Orleans. Renderings shared with NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune show plans for a roomy, multi-story facility stocked with games and featuring a rooftop terrace overlooking downtown.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu and Drive Shack CEO Sarah Watterson gathered last Thursday (April 12) to officially unveil the project, which will go up on the site of the old Times-Picayune building at 3800 Howard Ave. The former newspaper hub will be completely leveled to make way for the complex. Demolition is expected to start before the end of the year.


The planned three-level, 62,000-square-foot facility will have 90 climate-controlled driving range bays with complimentary TaylorMade clubs as well as a full-service restaurant and bar, a rooftop terrace and meeting and event space. The driving range itself will have targets and technology for tracking the flight of golf balls hit, an experience combining the gaming and arcade experience with that of a traditional driving range, Watterson said.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Metairie already has a virtual golf place open for business:

https://www.loft18.com/

Actually 2. I'm never see anyone in the one in Clearview Mall. I guess you could also count the one at Dicks Sporting Goods as well.

I’m no fan of golf, so i’m not positive— but i think that the typical Top Golf location is a much larger scale than those places in Metairie.

 

[T.P.]

It might sound corny but I hope they save the clock tower. They could put a giant golf ball on top to look like a tee.

 

[Zack Lee]

Here are the plans for Drive Shack


http://realestate.nola.com/realestate-news/2018/04/drive_shack_plans_new_orleans.html#incart_2box

nice shack.

 

[seagull]

So Drive Shack is a virtual golf venue/big video game?

 

[TheMike62987]

I’m no fan of golf, so i’m not positive— but i think that the typical Top Golf location is a much larger scale than those places in Metairie.

Yes, Top Golf is huge. The one I visited in Spring, TX while on a business trip was great. It was packed with people but you never felt crowded. I still say the area that was going to be used for fracking on 1088 and I-12 in Mandeville would have been a perfect spot for a Top Golf.

 

[El Caliente]

It's a terrible spot for anything. I can't for the life of me imagine why the TP set up shop there, other than maybe it was a decent space for presses and delivery trucks.

When my father arrived in this country from Cuba his first job was as a paper boy for the TP, as he grew he never left and my brothers and I all had an opportunity to work with him. Getting up at 2am to get the papers, go to the dock, wait for an hour, pull up to the dock, my dad in the truck pulling the conveyor into the truck, I was on the dock pushing our bundles to the conveyor so he could stack them in the back of the truck 6ft high. Once our papers were loaded we would go to the little glass booth with our paper manifesting how many papers we received that day. I can still smell that place. The ink, the papers, the machinery, the old guys smoking black n milds (or whatever they could bum off of someone).

Head out to deliver the papers, run across drunk College kids on Maple St., professional drinkers at Snake n Jakes Christmas Bar, run across dangerous people in Pigeon town at 3 am, run across dangerous people in the Garden District at 4am, meet coffee shop owners, and the managers of Winn Dixie and Canal Villerie as well as K&B to give them their papers. Putting papers in newspaper machines on our route, knocking off cans and cups of beers that were sitting on the vending machines. Tapping the drunks who were sleeping on the machines so that they would move. Passing cemeteries in the middle of the night, and moving our machines back into place but not so much that it woke the neighbors. Stopping to put papers in the vending machine at PJ’s coffee on Tulane’s campus at 6am and being greated by Ron Forman, James Carville, Moon and Mitch (though not all at the same time).

I learned a lot working with my father for those few years. I learned that I never wanted to do for a living what he did (which is why he took all of us). I learned how big and beautiful New Orleans truly is. I learned a great deal of history, and world events, and about life from a man who barely had a high school education and never stepped foot in a college classroom because he came here from Cuba by himself, and didn’t have anyone supporting him financially or otherwise. I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked that job.

As to why TP picked that location, if you notice the structure is in Howard Ave. Howard Avenue spans from around Xavier all the way down to the the Warehouse district. When the TP purchased that property the I10 wasn’t there. It just so happened that the I10 cut right through Howard Ave. If the I-0 doesn’t do that then the TP has quick and easy access to the CBD and all the businesses in the area. But unfortunately due to poor foresight they caught a bad break, and the wholesalers (guys like my dad) and company drivers (the guys who drove the big trucks) had to re-route and find different ways to get to their spots. But yeah, originally that spot was going to be a perfect location for their needs, but for progress.

 

[El Caliente]

It might sound corny but I hope they save the clock tower. They could put a giant golf ball on top to look like a tee.

I do too.