Golf & entertainment complex one step closer to coming to Knoxville

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Shot Club Social, a golf and entertainment complex, is one step closer to coming to Knoxville after land purchased for the complex was approved to be rezoned on Thursday.

Knoxville-Knox County Planning voted to pass a resolution rezoning the 10-acre piece of land that was purchased to build OnCore Golf from “Heavy Industrial” zoning to “Highway Commercial” zoning. Now, the item will go before the City Council for approval in July.

The land specifically is located in the area of May Avenue and Richards Street, making it easily accessible from areas like Mechanicsville, North Broadway near the Old Gray Cemetery, and I-275 via the exit at Baxter Avenue.

Earlier this year, Knoxville City Council voted to allow OnCore Golf, a New York-based company, to pay the city a set amount as opposed to a typical property tax via a nine-year agreement.

Last summer, OnCore Golf purchased the land in Knoxville as well as eight acres of land in downtown Buffalo New York where they intend to build ShotClub Social entertainment complexes.

According to the PILOT agreement, the complex would not only develop a blighted vacant property, it would also provide jobs to an area that “has not provided employment opportunities in approximately 10 years.”