Top Golf out, Drive shack in @ old T.P. building? (2 Viewers)

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I too believe that TOP GOLF should have come to the northshore. The virtual golf thing cannot compete with TOP GOLF. It is amazing! I;ve been to the one in las vegas and dallas. it's a great business concept. i watched more people play that didn't actually play golf. it's kind of like bowling but with golf. great environment, sports bar, tv;s everywhere, good food, good times. I never understood why they picked th TP building. I understand being around the tourist and convention business but i think it's a destination business and people will go find it.
 
Let me start by saying that I don’t golf.

Last week the firm I work for took everyone in our department to Top Golf here in Spring, Tx (the one previously mentioned) and we all knocked the crap out of those balls. Myself, and about a half dozen other people had never gone to a driving range before/in a very long time, but when you get up there on the top level and your just smacking the piss out of those golf balls, well, that’s pretty fun.

The loft18 is right down the street from my old house, and it’s getting quite popular, but I don’t think that anything can replicate the real thing.
 
strandedsaint said:
I too believe that TOP GOLF should have come to the northshore. The virtual golf thing cannot compete with TOP GOLF. It is amazing! I;ve been to the one in las vegas and dallas. it's a great business concept. i watched more people play that didn't actually play golf. it's kind of like bowling but with golf. great environment, sports bar, tv;s everywhere, good food, good times. I never understood why they picked th TP building. I understand being around the tourist and convention business but i think it's a destination business and people will go find it.
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The spot I was hoping for is easily accessible from Mississippi, BR, NO, and Northshore. It was literally perfect.
 
guidomerkinsrules said:
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It was always a weird location to build an entertainment business. It's a difficult place to get to despite being clearly visible from the Interstate. I only ever went to the T.P. building once and I'm not sure I even recall how to get there. Plus, a golf thing like that is probably going to need to pull in lots of people from Jefferson Parish and St. Tammany to be successful and I suspect many in Jefferson and St. Tammany Parish would rather drive to Baton Rouge to go to Top Golf than go someplace in Downtown New Orleans. Seems like either Metry or the North Shore would be better locations for this.
 
St. Widge said:
It was always a weird location to build an entertainment business. It's a difficult place to get to despite being clearly visible from the Interstate. I only ever went to the T.P. building once and I'm not sure I even recall how to get there. Plus, a golf thing like that is probably going to need to pull in lots of people from Jefferson Parish and St. Tammany to be successful and I suspect many in Jefferson and St. Tammany Parish would rather drive to Baton Rouge to go to Top Golf than go someplace in Downtown New Orleans. Seems like either Metry or the North Shore would be better locations for this.
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i'd forgotten that there was another company thinking about building one in the convention center area (makes much more sense) - but they pulled back when political backing was clearly behind top golf
if i squint hard enough i can see the thinking that if the T.P. area gets an anchor then gentrifying can't be far behind - more bang for the buck vs convention area which is already well under development
 
guidomerkinsrules said:
i'd forgotten that there was another company thinking about building one in the convention center area (makes much more sense) - but they pulled back when political backing was clearly behind top golf
if i squint hard enough i can see the thinking that if the T.P. area gets an anchor then gentrifying can't be far behind - more bang for the buck vs convention area which is already well under development
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Yeah, I can see from the City point of view why they would want something like that there. It would be an anchor to gentrification and could lead to another entertainment area for tourists. (Although I'm tired of everything here revolving around the tourists.) I just don't see how the location makes sense for a golf company.

Anyway, the Convention Center area would make more sense because it would be closer to and tie into the convention and tourism stuff. Maybe they can use Market Street Station for this? That would be like project idea 15 for Market Street station?
 
St. Widge said:
Yeah, I can see from the City point of view why they would want something like that there. It would be an anchor to gentrification and could lead to another entertainment area for tourists. (Although I'm tired of everything here revolving around the tourists.) I just don't see how the location makes sense for a golf company.

Anyway, the Convention Center area would make more sense because it would be closer to and tie into the convention and tourism stuff. Maybe they can use Market Street Station for this? That would be like project idea 15 for Market Street station?
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Thank heavens we didn't let Bass Pro Shop in!
 
St. Widge said:
It was always a weird location to build an entertainment business. It's a difficult place to get to despite being clearly visible from the Interstate. I only ever went to the T.P. building once and I'm not sure I even recall how to get there. Plus, a golf thing like that is probably going to need to pull in lots of people from Jefferson Parish and St. Tammany to be successful and I suspect many in Jefferson and St. Tammany Parish would rather drive to Baton Rouge to go to Top Golf than go someplace in Downtown New Orleans. Seems like either Metry or the North Shore would be better locations for this.
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Well there is already some golf place at Metairie Rd and Causeway, and there was some incentive tied to this to connect Howard Ave all the way from whatever they are calling that circle now.
 
I can understand why they picked that location, and it’s not to further gentrification. Think about that area for a moment. Sure you have the projects right around there, but you also have wealthy individuals on the other side of Earhardt. You have the fray bros, and and college kids but a stones throw away. You have easy access (from the I-10 via Howard Ave Exit) for folks coming in from Metry. The location could be better, but it wasn’t the “death blow”.

Drive Shack is a mess. Look at their financials. Look at their stock. The company is sputtering, and the numbers show it. I had a decent size position in the company a few years back pre-Covid, and took a bath on those shares. The company needs new direction if they are ever to compete with Top Golf.

As for the mess that was the Times Picayune. Tragic. All that mess, and just a sitting eyesore.

I believe the Newhouse family donated that property to Xavier University, but someone check me on that. Whoever owns that property now, is going to need to fix that up.

I believe Endymion parks their floats (their float barn) right in that area. I wonder if they or a different parade group would be interested in buying up that spot (at a discount) and parking their floats there.
 

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