Already a magnet for weekend shoppers, Flea Land on Bowling Green’s Three Springs Road may soon add another attraction: miniature golf.

Grant Lewis, owner of Flea Land through his Lewis Group corporation, was approved Dec. 21 by the City-County Planning Commission of Warren County for a rezoning that Lewis expects to lead to development of an 18-hole mini golf course on a 1.27-acre tract in front of Flea Land.

The six planning commissioners present all voted in favor of rezoning the property at 1100 Three Springs Road from agriculture to highway business, sending Lewis’s plan to the Bowling Green City Commission for final approval.

“This is basically an out-parcel of Flea Land,” explained Chris Davenport, the attorney representing Lewis at the meeting. “It’s a unique project. I think he (Lewis) has identified a demand in Warren County.”

Lewis, who has owned Flea Land for nearly 30 years and has built it into a retail center with more than 300 indoor and outdoor booths, agrees.

“This gives us a chance to expand what we offer and bring more people in,” Lewis said. “We have a lot of retailers, now we’re adding an entertainment component.”

It’s an entertainment offering that Lewis says is lacking in Bowling Green.

“There are no putt-putt courses in town now,” he said. “There was one out at Otte Golf (on Scottsville Road) that I used to take my kids to before they turned it into apartments.”

Lewis sees mini golf as recreation that can be enjoyed by people of all ages, and he has enlisted the help of Pennsylvania-based Harris Miniature Golf to help him design and build a course that is attractive and challenging.

Called The Shack Mini Golf, Lewis’s project will include holes with waterfalls, tunnels and other obstacles.

The course will include concessions, a clubhouse and a patio, Lewis said.

“It’s a big investment,” he said, “but I feel like it will pay off over time, especially with the crowds we have coming to Flea Land.”

Lewis expects construction to start next spring on a course that will be open during the week and on weekends.

“The golf course construction team is due in on April 1,” Lewis said. “We hope to start construction of the clubhouse before then, weather permitting. We could open late-summer if everything falls in place.”

Lewis expects the course to be open from March through November but says it could open “on nice weekends” during the winter months.

In other action at the Dec. 21 meeting, the planning commission approved the application of Greenhills Development Partners LLC to amend the development plan conditions for 71.62 acres located at 544 Lovers Lane, 497 Hazen Court, and 484 and 656 Golden Autumn Way to allow for institutional uses on the property and for a greater use of glass as a building material.

Greenhills Development had the property rezoned in 2016 in order to develop up to 450 multi-family dwelling units and 900,000 square feet of office and commercial space.

Greenhills Development also won approval for rezoning 1.58 acres on Midsummer Street in the Lovers Lane corridor from planned unit development to highway business. It will go to the Bowling Green City Commission for final approval.

According to the staff report presented at the meeting, the acreage will be used primarily for parking that will serve a planned medical office building.

The planning commission did not hear one large potential development that was on the original agenda.

GVTP Development LLC, headed by George Vogler and Tim Poston, submitted an application to rezone 102.5 acres on the east side of Nashville Road near Fuller Drive from agriculture to public, residential estate and single-family residential. The application, which included plans to include a Warren County public school on the property, was withdrawn.