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Old Siegen Driving Range
Posted on 11/11/21 at 8:51 am
Posted on 11/11/21 at 8:51 am
I see there is construction going on at the old Siegen driving range. Anyone know whats happening there?
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Posted on 11/11/21 at 8:52 am to PizzaMule
Isnt that where they’re putting the knockoff Top Golf?
Posted on 11/11/21 at 8:52 am to PizzaMule
GolfSuites
Posted on 11/11/21 at 8:53 am to LouisianaLady
Another top golf type place, can't remember the name of it.
Golf Suites maybe
Golf Suites maybe
Posted on 11/11/21 at 8:53 am to nicholastiger
The only Golfing venue in the South you’ll need rubber boots to visit between March and May.
Posted on 11/11/21 at 8:53 am to chicano12
Yep, gonna put Top Golf out of bidnes
Posted on 11/11/21 at 8:57 am to foj1981
Probably both will do well
It was before Covid but you still had to wait at Top Golf
It was before Covid but you still had to wait at Top Golf
Posted on 11/11/21 at 9:00 am to PizzaMule
TG&Y
Posted on 11/11/21 at 9:00 am to PizzaMule
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A new golfing venue is moving into the Baton Rouge market—and is developing its high-tech driving range just two miles from the Topgolf location on North Mall Drive that will be its direct competitor.
GolfSuites, a Florida-based company that was founded in 2016 and currently has one location in Oklahoma and a second planned for Texas, has leased the nearly 17-acre site on Siegen Lane that, until the 2016 flood, was the Caddyshack Driving Range.
Real estate broker Mark Hebert, who represented the landlord in the transaction, says GolfSuites was attracted to the site, despite its propensity to flood, because of the overwhelming success of Topgolf, which opened in early 2019.
“They know how well Topgolf has done here and they came here to see this location,” Hebert says.
Read on for more on the planned golf attraction in a story that originally appeared in the Feb. 18 edition of Daily Report. To keep up with Baton Rouge business and politics, subscribe to the free Daily Report e-newsletter here.
It was a Golf Board topic a while back https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/golf/golf-suites-top-golf-competitor-bought-the-old-range-on-siegen-lane/95146740/
Posted on 11/11/21 at 9:02 am to PizzaMule
I have no doubt they'll do well because Top Golf stays busy but how do you invest in that area knowing it's going to be underwater every few years?
Posted on 11/11/21 at 9:04 am to foj1981
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Yep, gonna put Top Golf out of bidnes
Passed by there last night. It looks like the market can comfortably support two facilities
Posted on 11/11/21 at 9:04 am to PizzaMule
Another Top Golf type of development.
Actually should be nice. The wait at Top Golf is insane sometimes.
Actually should be nice. The wait at Top Golf is insane sometimes.
Posted on 11/11/21 at 9:05 am to skullhawk
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have no doubt they'll do well because Top Golf stays busy but how do you invest in that area knowing it's going to be underwater every few years?
It’s crazy for anything of substance to be there
Posted on 11/11/21 at 9:10 am to foj1981
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Yep, gonna put Top Golf out of bidnes
Remember when the OT experts knew that Baton Rouge wouldn't get a Top Golf. When they were proven wrong, they insisted that Top Golf would go out of business because the area couldn't support it. Top Golf's biggest regret is probably that they didn't build twice as many bays as it did in Baton Rouge. The market can clearly support more of what they are providing.
Posted on 11/11/21 at 9:12 am to skullhawk
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I have no doubt they'll do well because Top Golf stays busy but how do you invest in that area knowing it's going to be underwater every few years?
I imagine the actual driving range part of this can probably survive a little water, right? The bays and restaurant obviously have to be built up a bit.
I can't believe those apartments right there still exist. They've flooded every 5-6 years for as long as I can remember.
Posted on 11/11/21 at 9:17 am to PizzaMule
It's a Top-Golf knockoff.
Instead of building it in a flood zone, they should buy those seedy hotels next to I-10 and build it there instead.
Instead of building it in a flood zone, they should buy those seedy hotels next to I-10 and build it there instead.
Posted on 11/11/21 at 9:20 am to PizzaMule
I wonder how ole Pickles is doing these days.
Posted on 11/11/21 at 9:27 am to PizzaMule
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Honestly I would love a place that was a regular range with a bar and TVs at the bar. Buy a bucket of beers and you get a complimentary small bucket of balls.
Posted on 11/11/21 at 9:28 am to dewster
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Remember when the OT experts knew that Baton Rouge wouldn't get a Top Golf. When they were proven wrong, they insisted that Top Golf would go out of business because the area couldn't support it.
They said Main Event and Top Golf would never make it in Baton Rouge.
Both would be run off by culcha IIRC.
My kids love Main Event and it's always busy.
Oh and Top Golf is thriving BIG TIME.
The OT is full of stupid.
This post was edited on 11/11/21 at 9:30 am
Posted on 11/11/21 at 9:30 am to mikelbr
What’s Main Event like? For kids?
Always looking for new date night things but prefer not a bunch of kiddos. I’m unfamiliar with that place.
Always looking for new date night things but prefer not a bunch of kiddos. I’m unfamiliar with that place.
This post was edited on 11/11/21 at 9:31 am
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