Gray Eagle Golf Course in Fishers, Ind. proposes 160-foot tall Topgolf-style netting and a bar and restaurant in the clubhouse. The city Plan Commission will now vote in September after the property owners meet with residents of the Graystone neighborhood to discuss the plan.

The Fishers (Ind.) Plan Commission postponed action on a request to erect 160-foot tall Topgolf-style netting at Gray Eagle Golf Course’s proposed two-story driving range, the Indianapolis Star reported. Included in the proposal is a bar and restaurant in the clubhouse.

This is the latest attempt to save the property. In January 2021, Club + Resort Business reported that the club sought approval to build 101 garden-style apartments, 28 townhouses and 20 duplexes on a 21-acre portion of the 40-acre driving range.

J.C. Hart is now building a 155-unit development for people 55 and older, which will include a combination of apartments and paired homes, along with a pool, pickleball and bocce ball courts, outdoor spaces and a clubhouse, lounge, the Star reported.

Commissioners said they would vote in September after Gray Eagle Golf meets with residents of the Graystone neighborhood to discuss the plan, the Star reported. The owners had already met with the Gray Eagle HOA, but a previously planned Graystone meeting was cancelled.

The barrier netting to catch struck golf balls is nearly as tall as Topgolf’s nets of 170 feet in Fishers, the Star reported. But Fishers Planning Director Megan Vukusich it would rise to 160 in just one part and would be as low as 50 feet in others.

Lighting towers 30 feet high would be cast downward and their brightness would be well below what is allowed under city ordinance, Vukusich said. Just one resident has written the city objecting to the net, saying it was too high for the area, the Star reported.

The driving range upgrades are the final piece of an overhaul of the golf course, which five years ago was in danger of closing, the Star reported. Course owner Mark Thompson said then the course was losing money and in disrepair and he wanted to develop the land instead.

But the Gray Eagle HOA and the city worked with Thompson to develop part of the area south of the driving range, which provided revenue for upgrades and maintenance of the golf course. Residents feared losing the golf course would lessen property values.

The Plan Commission will consider the proposal again at its Sept. 6 meeting, the Star reported.