Top Golf / new metro course rumors

[Gunnerclone]

Y’all are missing the point. Waukee is about to have 50k people at some point in the next decade. The new GPP exit is easy pickings for the western/southern portion of WDM where a ton of money also resides. For those WDM people Johnston might as well be Ames. Waukee is part of their every day.

If there was a place suitable in Johnston it would be near 141/Grimes, not anywhere near the Merle Hay Exit.

 

[dmclone]

Posts like this is why people mark your stuff dumb.

Y’all are missing the point. Waukee is about to have 50k people at some point in the next decade. The new GPP exit is easy pickings for the western/southern portion of WDM where a ton of money also resides. For those WDM people Johnston might as well be Ames. Waukee is part of their every day.

If there was a place suitable in Johnston it would be near 141/Grimes, not anywhere near the Merle Hay Exit.

That's true, if waukee keeps growing they should be at 50k by 2050. They have a lot of room to grow.

 

[VeloClone]

I did learn from that video that if I just go to Top Golf I will become younger and more attractive. Who knew it was so easy?!

 

[alarson]

Y’all are missing the point. Waukee is about to have 50k people at some point in the next decade. The new GPP exit is easy pickings for the western/southern portion of WDM where a ton of money also resides. For those WDM people Johnston might as well be Ames. Waukee is part of their every day.

If there was a place suitable in Johnston it would be near 141/Grimes, not anywhere near the Merle Hay Exit.

If we want to talk population growth, something up east of I-35 in ankeny would seem to make sense as well. Ankeny is absolutely booming and will be above 100k before too long, taking the largest suburb spot from WDM.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

That's true, if waukee keeps growing they should be at 50k by 2050. They have a lot of room to grow.

Not sure why you quoted me from a different thread there, but I’m going to agree with it.

 

[Gunnerclone]

If we want to talk population growth, something up east of I-35 in ankeny would seem to make sense as well. Ankeny is absolutely booming and will be above 100k before too long, taking the largest suburb spot from WDM.

I also think part of the appeal of Waukee is Jordan Creek as well. You’re getting people from all over the region. It’s an established and proven upscale retail area. Ankeny doesn’t have anything like that area.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

I also think part of the appeal of Waukee is Jordan Creek as well. You’re getting people from all over the region. It’s an established and proven upscale retail area. Ankeny doesn’t have anything like that area.

Pretty much everybody that comes to town for youth tournaments, shopping, etc all stay out in the Jordan Creek area. West Des Moines also doesn't completely suck to try to get around in like Ankeny...

 

[clonefreek]

Ankeny is the same way...

Yeah, Ankeny just sucks. There is no other way to put it. A nightmare to drive through and literally no one in that town knows how to drive.

 

[Cydkar]

Yeah, Ankeny just sucks. There is no other way to put it. A nightmare to drive through and literally no one in that town knows how to drive.

You used literally wrong.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

Yeah, Ankeny just sucks. There is no other way to put it. A nightmare to drive through and literally no one in that town knows how to drive.

I lived there for 4 years and I still can't figure out the appeal. That was almost 10 years ago and it's way worse now.

 

[clonefreek]

You used literally wrong.

Oh please explain?

 

[clonefreek]

I lived there for 4 years and I still can't figure out the appeal. That was almost 10 years ago and it's way worse now.

Yeah I lived there for a year when I moved from Ames. I moved almost 20 miles closer to my office and only saved myself 7 minutes of driving.

 

[jsb]

I lived there for 4 years and I still can't figure out the appeal. That was almost 10 years ago and it's way worse now.

I moved from ankeny to west Des Moines 12 years ago.

The problem with ankeny is that the streets are still built like it is a small town.

 

[BryceC]

I lived there for 4 years and I still can't figure out the appeal. That was almost 10 years ago and it's way worse now.

I've lived here for more than a decade. We moved here literally because we got jobs in Des Moines and this was the closest place to Ames. ISU athletics are my primary hobby and we can be in Ames in 20-25 minutes on a good day. No way in hell I'm driving from WDM to Ames multiple times a week in the winter.

That said the city majorly effed up the east side of town. Delaware/Oralabor is an absolute disaster. I live on the west side of town and literally go there less than I go to Ames.

 

[JP4CY]

I've lived here for more than a decade. We moved here literally because we got jobs in Des Moines and this was the closest place to Ames. ISU athletics are my primary hobby and we can be in Ames in 20-25 minutes on a good day. No way in hell I'm driving from WDM to Ames multiple times a week in the winter.

That said the city majorly effed up the east side of town. Delaware/Oralabor is an absolute disaster. I live on the west side of town and literally go there less than I go to Ames.

The fast growth and the fact that there’s basically a mile wide industrial park from the I 235 curve up to C Woods drive, then an assload of retail north of that.
That area is a disaster but atleast there’s frontage roads unlike Ames. Duff Ave in Ames is laughably bad. Chick Fil A has a driveway that’s a disaster.

 

[BryceC]

Yeah I honestly think Duff is worse. Duff just absolutely sucks too.

 

[Tri4Cy]

Y’all are missing the point. Waukee is about to have 50k people at some point in the next decade. The new GPP exit is easy pickings for the western/southern portion of WDM where a ton of money also resides. For those WDM people Johnston might as well be Ames. Waukee is part of their every day.

If there was a place suitable in Johnston it would be near 141/Grimes, not anywhere near the Merle Hay Exit.

Honestly, You may be spot on there. The intersection of NW 100th and 54th. Right where the old driving range used to be located. Easily accessed from anywhere in the metro, close to the grimes sports complex, etc.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

Honestly, You may be spot on there. The intersection of NW 100th and 54th. Right where the old driving range used to be located. Easily accessed from anywhere in the metro, close to the grimes sports complex, etc.

I feel like that area is zoned for residential.

 

[dmclone]

Honestly, You may be spot on there. The intersection of NW 100th and 54th. Right where the old driving range used to be located. Easily accessed from anywhere in the metro, close to the grimes sports complex, etc.

That's exactly where I was thinking. When I think of Johnston, I always think west of Merle Hay road and really west of 86th.

 

[mdk2isu]

Honestly, You may be spot on there. The intersection of NW 100th and 54th. Right where the old driving range used to be located. Easily accessed from anywhere in the metro, close to the grimes sports complex, etc.

This would be the perfect spot. No, Im not biased at all even though that would put it 2 minutes from my house in this location.