"The proposed Putt-Putt Fun Center project seeks to provide a variety of recreational uses including mini-golf, laser tag, bumper cars, an arcade/redemption prize area, a go-kart track and related facilities, batting cages, and other indoor and outdoor participatory facilities and activities in a tobacco-, smoke-, and alcohol-free atmosphere. It will also include dining space and event rooms. We are confident this location, until recently without public utilities or physical road access, is a very suitable and desirable geographic location within Chapel Hill to provide family friendly amusement and entertainment activities which are not offered elsewhere locally. The site will also provide a conditioned self-storage building, a use which is in

demand by residents and business owners alike.”

The company, Putt-Putt, was founded in 1954 in Fayetteville. It offers franchise opportunities. The Chapel Hill center would be within walking distance of a Chapel Hill Transit park-and-ride lot and the new Carraway Village.  According to an 8/2/19 News & Observer article, the proposed site was listed for sale at $2.7 million and the property’s owner said it was under contract. “The concept plan notes that only 12.5 acres is developable because of a stream and required landscaping buffers. More than 40 percent of the existing trees would remain on the site, the plan says. The project would preserve roughly 4.5 buildable acres north of the stream for future development.”