Andretti Indoor Karting plans first NC location. Here’s where.

The Topgolf under construction in Durham will soon have a neighbor — and it promises to be a fun one.

Andretti Indoor Karting & Games has filed plans with Durham City-County Planning Department to open its first North Carolina location beside Topgolf.

The entertainment destinations will be the main attractions on a 46-acre chunk of land under development near Research Triangle Park.

The site plan calls for a 89,150-square-foot space with a high-speed karting track and a large arcade game room, plus laser tag, a bar and restaurants, virtual reality simulators, eight bowling lanes and private event suites.

Andretti, which didn’t respond to messages from The News & Observer, has six locations in Texas, Florida and Georgia. The company is named after the famed Andretti racing family, whose North Carolina connections date back decades.

Late race car driver John Andretti, who partnered with a Florida businessman on the original outdoor location in 1999, moved to Charlotte in the 1990s while he was competing in NASCAR events. Two of his children attended college in the Triangle.

John Andretti is the nephew of Mario Andretti, the Italian-American racing legend who is the only man to have won the Indianapolis 500, Daytona 500 and Formula One World Championship.

When will the Raleigh-Durham Topgolf open?

The site is in southern Durham off Page Road, between RTP and Raleigh. It’s just north of the junction of Interstates 40 and 540.

Topgolf planned to open a three-story, 102-bay facility there this summer, but construction is ongoing.

The building and high fence surrounding the driving range are visible from the road, though a large mound of red dirt along Page Road has scarcely budged since summertime. The latest permit was issued in October for parking lot lighting.

Topgolf’s website for the Raleigh-Durham location still lists it as “coming soon.”

The company did not reply to News & Observer questions, but tweeted last week it is “still putting on the finishing touches.”

RealtyLink, a national real estate developer headquartered in South Carolina, bought the 46-acre property in 2019 for $7.5 million.

In the latest site plan, which planning staff must approve, the developer proposes widening Page Road to up to six lanes in front of Topgolf and adding a traffic signal and extra lanes to the I-40 on-ramps.

The company plans to build five other buildings among hundreds of parking spaces, according to a RealtyLink advertisement.

One, far smaller than Topgolf and Andretti, is also marked for entertainment. Two are slated to become hotels and one will contain retail, while the last has not yet been categorized.

All the spaces aside from Topgolf were listed as available when the flyer published in the spring.

RealtyLink’s Raleigh principal declined to discuss the project.