Driving Range, Restaurants Teed up for Northwest Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City's Planning Commission approves for 61-stall golf driving range that would include two restaurants and alcohol sales.

 

A yet-to-be named group of local investors has plans to build an upscale golf driving range with at least two restaurants in northwest Oklahoma City near the John Kilpatrick Turnpike. The Oklahoma City Planning Commission on Thursday approved plans for the 61-stall golf driving range that would include two restaurants that would also serve mixed drinks.

 

Called Skybox, the development would include a 61,618-square-foot, two-story building on a 24-acre golf driving range that would include leasable space for meetings, banquets and other events.

 

The developer, which is using shell company Origin LLC to pursue its application with the city, declined an interview with The Oklahoma. Oklahoma City attorney Dennis Box, who represented Origin at the Planning Commission, would say only that Origin was "a group of local investors."

 

The venue would be built on a piece of vacant land on Highland Park Boulevard just off the John Kilpatrick Turnpike that is owned by Oklahoma City real estate investor Tin\\om Blanton, according to property records.

The investment group wants to purchase the land to develop the driving range, Box said.

“We think it's an excellent location,” Box said.

 

Alcohol concerns

    Janis Powers, planning commissioner for Ward 2 expressed initial concerns that giving the development the ability to serve alcoholic beverages might cause problems for the city down the road if the Skybox concept ultimately fails, because a different business would have the grandfathered ability to also serve alcohol.

 

“This building is 61,618 square feet — that's a lot of alcohol sales,” Powers said.

Nick Gales, planning commissioner for Ward 8, said the building's design would make it difficult to repurpose for a different use should Skybox close.

After a brief discussion, the planning commission unanimously approved plans for the driving range that include the ability for the restaurants to serve alcoholic beverages, but the Oklahoma City Council must still give approval to the project before it can move forward.

 

 

 

by: Brianna Bailey

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