Top Golf in Uptown Birmingham? (Huntsville, Hoover: condos, hotel, income)

[GotLuv4Bham]

I think TopGolf is pretty much a done deal at this point. A company is not going to go in front of the design review board if there are no solid plans in place. The only thing left to find out is, what it will look like, and when it will break ground.

[GotLuv4Ham]

Originally Posted by Mr Football

You mean like this? https://goo.gl/maps/RFmmJk6hyJw

This is ridiculous! So you put the top golf location on google and then took it away? You need to get a life h

[Tourian]

Ida know, maybe it is just a rumor...just idle chatter from sunshine pumpers.


Topgolf wins approvals to bring high-tech driving range, entertainment to Magic City | AL.com

Topgolf won approvals Wednesday morning to clear the way for its first ever urban location, and right here in the Magic City.
Topgolf is a driving range, but it's high-tech: each golf ball has a RFID chip in it - the kind in cell phones - that collects data about your swing, like distance. But it's not just for the serious golfer - there are different targets folks can attempt to aim, and it's far more than just golf.
Each bay - which customers rent by the hour - has couches and flat screen TVs. The bays are rented by the hour with rates ranging from $25 to $45 depending on peak times and are the same rate regardless of how many people are using the bays. There's also a $5 membership fee, but customers only have to pay that once.
Topgolf is taking up full two city blocks bordered by 12th Avenue North, 11th Avenue North, 26th Street North and 24th Street North. The Birmingham Design Review Committee granted Topgolf approval Wednesday morning as well as approval for the BJCC to demolish two buildings on the property.
About 80 percent of Topgolf's customers are not regular golfers, Topgolf Senior Real Estate Development Associate Mark Foster said. Topgolf will be open from 9 a.m. to 2 a.m. It'll also have a 50-table restaurant and bar.
The building will be 65,000 square feet and have a four and a half-acre outfield.
Topgolf has 26 locations in the U.S. and three in the United Kingdom.
"We've reinvented the game of golf, we've made it popular to the masses," Foster said.
The location should open before the end of next year, Foster said.

[GotLuv4Bham]

Originally Posted by Tourian

Ida know, maybe it is just a rumor...just idle chatter from sunshine pumpers.


Topgolf wins approvals to bring high-tech driving range, entertainment to Magic City | AL.com

Yeah Tourian, the Bham bashers will hate this news. First ever urban TopGolf location. More importantly, the first TopGolf location in the state of Alabama. This will be huge for downtown Birmingham!

[GotLuv4Bham]

Based on the renderings in the story, the development's orientation will be parallel to interstate 20/59. The views of downtown will be awesome.

[Tourian]

Yeah was reading about one that had to be turned because of the afternoon sun but I figured if it was angled somewhat like Regions Park it would have good views of the skyline.

[TimCity2000]

I had been wondering if there were other urban locations, as the few I've seen have been in the 'burbs. Pretty cool that this is the first. Definitely would not fit in the middle of a downtown, but right on the edges like this is perfect.


GotLuv4Bham... why do you say the views of downtown will be awesome? Looks to me that this thing faces East down I-20.

[Tourian]

Im thinking youll be able to see the CBD to...the right I guess

[GotLuv4Bham]

Originally Posted by TimCity2000

I had been wondering if there were other urban locations, as the few I've seen have been in the 'burbs. Pretty cool that this is the first. Definitely would not fit in the middle of a downtown, but right on the edges like this is perfect.


GotLuv4Bham... why do you say the views of downtown will be awesome? Looks to me that this thing faces East down I-20.

Wow, you're right. Well, the views from inside the building will be awesome. I thought the top of the rendering was the interstate.

[Tourian]

Originally Posted by TimCity2000

I had been wondering if there were other urban locations, as the few I've seen have been in the 'burbs. Pretty cool that this is the first. Definitely would not fit in the middle of a downtown, but right on the edges like this is perfect.

The description of Nashville's makes it seem it is on the edge of their downtown as well. But it was interesting to see them to make it a point to say this was their first urban location