Magic Mini Golf in the Delmar Loop Progressing
Date Posted: October 22, 2018
Posted In: Projects,
From NextSTL: Joe Edwards’ latest endeavor, Magic Mini Golf, has taken more steps to fruition. The facility will contain an 18-hole mini golf course, a small Ferris Wheel, shuffleboard, other games, food, and drink. A $3.2M building permit was applied for on October 8th and plans submitted for review by the Preservation Review Board at its meeting October 22nd.
A new two-story building will occupy the vacant lot at 6154 Delmar. It will attach to the former Olivet Missionary Baptist Church, purchased by Edwards in 2001, which will be rehabbed, and extend behind 6148-52 Delmar built in 2007, also owned by Edwards. There will be parking off the alley. The fence promoting a defunct African-American Cultural Center has fronted the lot since 2009. A gift from Emerson to the Missouri Historical Society announced in 2015 marked the end of that effort:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch – The new announcement, however, seems to mark an end to the effort to turn the old Olivet Missionary Baptist Church, on the east end of the Delmar Loop, into the long-discussed African-American Cultural Center.