{"id":2252501,"date":"2026-01-27T09:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2252501"},"modified":"2026-01-27T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:58:09","slug":"former-hilton-head-panera-eyed-for-new-entertainment-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/former-hilton-head-panera-eyed-for-new-entertainment-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Hilton Head Panera eyed for new entertainment concept"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hilton Head Island’s Panera Bread restaurant, photographed here in 2015, may become part of a new indoor minigolf facility.<\/p>\n

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Developers are eyeing the site of a former Panera on Hilton Head for a new indoor mini golf concept.<\/p>\n

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Located at 1010 and 1012 William Hilton Parkway, the new entertainment facility would include an 18-hole mini golf course, golf simulator bays, and a food and beverage area.<\/p>\n

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Architect Judd Carstens of Witmer Jones Keefer submitted a brief narrative overviewing the project to the Town of Hilton Head Island Community Development Department.<\/p>\n

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In the narrative, Carstens explained that the developers seek to construct a new 20,000 square foot mini golf facility on a vacant lot near Dunnagans Alley. The adjacent Panera building will be connected to the new facility, and renovated to accommodate the food and beverage needs of the project.<\/p>\n

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Except for the Panera, the existing buildings at 1012 William Hilton Parkway will remain untouched, according to the project narrative. One of those buildings houses Casablanca Mediterranean Grill.<\/p>\n

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Carstens wrote that the work will be developed by an \u201con-island hospitality business,\u201d but did not mention any companies by name.<\/p>\n

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A pre-application meeting for the project will occur Thursday at 1:30 p.m. The meeting will be open to the public.<\/p>\n

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A pre-application meeting is an optional first step developers can take before submitting a full application. During the meeting, town staff reviews the proposal and offers feedback and suggestions in an informal setting.<\/p>\n

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In order to be approved, the project will need to be vetted by town staff and receive approval from the Design Review Board.<\/p>\n

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Li Khan covers Hilton Head Island for the Island Packet. Previously, she was the Editor in Chief of The Peralta Citizen, a watchdog student-led news publication at Laney College in Oakland, California. <\/span>\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.islandpacket.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hilton Head Island’s Panera Bread restaurant, photographed here in 2015, may become part of a new indoor minigolf facility. Jay Karr Developers are eyeing the site of a former Panera on Hilton Head for a new indoor mini golf concept. Located at 1010 and 1012 William Hilton Parkway, the new entertainment facility would include an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2252502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[436186,436187,378231,345741],"class_list":["post-2252501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-hilton-head","tag-hilton-head-island","tag-mini-golf","tag-panera"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Former-Hilton-Head-Panera-eyed-for-new-entertainment-concept.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252503,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252501\/revisions\/2252503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2252502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}