Crossroads Golf KC

Crossroads Golf KC is a five-bay indoor golf simulator lounge and bar at 1656 Washington St, Suite 100, opened 24 July 2026 in the 1913 building the developers have renamed The Mid-Central Exchange — a former wholesale-fish cold-storage warehouse whose refrigeration coils were cut up and reused as the legs of the bar top. The bays run Trackman with more than 500 courses; the kitchen is run by Celina Tio, a James Beard Award winner, as a twelve-item snack menu built to be eaten standing up next to a golf swing. Partner Sam Wolf assembled the investor group; Eric Willey is managing partner.

Description

Crossroads Golf KC is built around five Trackman bays with a library of more than 500 courses, and around the thing that separates a simulator lounge from a driving range: the data. Players can read ball speed and spin rate off the same screen they are playing Pebble Beach on.¹

The room is organised so the golf is not the only reason to be in it. A horseshoe-shaped bar anchors the floor, with rotating draft and bottled beer, seltzers, and a short specialty cocktail list — spicy margaritas, elderflower mules — and a 3–6pm weekday happy hour.¹ First-party marketing states the position plainly: “Serious Golf. Seriously Good Times.”²

The food is the unusual part. Celina Tio, a James Beard Award winner who also cooks at The Belfry in the Crossroads, wrote a twelve-item snack menu to a single constraint — that every item survive being eaten one-handed between shots. In her own framing: “We tried to make it so you can pick-up-and-go. Finger food, but at the same time you can make a dinner out of it,” and the bar should be “a great bar to grab food and drinks and people watch.”¹

The list runs to Darius’ caramel corn (named for The Belfry’s Darius Thompson), house-made mole mixed nuts, Tuscan white bean hummus, shrimp ceviche on a Yoli Tortilleria tortilla, biercock and chips, lamb pinchos with harissa on Moroccan couscous salad, deviled eggs, Reuben dogs, chicken tinga tostadas with cilantro cream and pickled red onion, two flatbreads, and a toasted Italian sandwich on Ibis Bakery lemon olive oil bread.¹ Two KC producers named on a twelve-item menu is a deliberate sourcing choice, not an accident of supply.

Access is sold two ways: public bays at $30–$60 depending on peak or non-peak, and memberships, the top of which is a $350/month founding tier carrying two hours of reserved daily play, up to four guests, discounted league and event rates, a swag bag, and a liquor locker. Two lower tiers exist; neither was detailed at opening, and the first-party membership page lists the benefits without printing a price.¹³

This page is not GolfTRK, the separately owned KC-founded simulator company with four metro locations and a franchising plan, and not Ricochet, the Crossroads game-and-social lounge in the former Kansas City Star building.¹

Ownership and history

Sam Wolf is the partner who assembled the ownership group — local and Colorado-based investors — and Eric Willey is managing partner. The building at 1656 Washington is owned by Ken Wolf, Sam Wolf’s father, who purchased and renovated it during the pandemic and lives in Colorado.¹ Willey’s read on the category’s growth is the pandemic: simulated golf, he said, “became a widespread pastime during the pandemic’s social distancing.”¹ Buildout began in January 2026; the doors opened Friday, 24 July 2026.¹⁴

Sam Wolf’s stated ambition for the room is neighborhood-crossing rather than golf-first — a “boundary-hopping mesh of neighborhoods,” a venue meant to pull in people who do not play.¹

The building is the older story. The 40,449 sq ft structure dates to 1913. From the early 1920s to the early 1980s it housed Mid-Central Fish Co., a regional wholesale seafood distributor and processor that moved South African rock lobster tails and canned Alaskan salmon through Kansas City — the business that gives the redeveloped Mid-Central Exchange its name. Honeybake Farm Sandwich and, more recently, the Screenland Crossroads movie theater followed.¹³ The cold-storage era is physically present in the bar: refrigeration coils from the fish company were repurposed as the legs of the bar top.¹

Crossroads Golf is one tenant of a building being filled out: Triune, Steven Blakley’s casual fine-dining room, opened there in mid-2024, and office tenants occupy the upper floors. Announced but not yet open at the time of the opening coverage were Havana Cafe and Lounge in Suite 140 (Blakley listed as registered agent), Vessel Wellness in Suite 300, Shik Salon in Suite 305, and Obsidian Athletic Club in Suite 310.¹

The team said it was focused on the first location, while naming Iowa as a possible market for a second.¹

Legal entity name and Missouri Secretary of State registration were not searched this pass.

Links

• Website: https://www.crossroadsgolfkc.com/
• About: https://www.crossroadsgolfkc.com/about
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crossroadsgolf_kc/

Sources

Footnotes

1. Joyce Smith, “Crossroads Golf adds ‘craft-forward’ dining, drinks to neighborhood indoor golf,” Startland News, 24 July 2026. URL (Asserts: address 1656 Washington St., Suite 100; 4,000 sq ft “just inside Westside”; buildout began January 2026; five Trackman bays with 500+ courses reading ball speed and spin rate; Sam Wolf as partner who assembled a group of local and Colorado-based investors; Ken Wolf as his father, the building owner, a Colorado resident who bought and renovated during the pandemic; Eric Willey as managing partner and his quote on pandemic-era simulated golf; Celina Tio as chef, James Beard winner, also of The Belfry, with both of her quotes and the full twelve-item snack list including Darius’ caramel corn named for The Belfry’s Darius Thompson, the Yoli Tortilleria tortilla, and Ibis Bakery lemon olive oil bread; horseshoe bar, rotating draft and bottled beer and seltzers, spicy margaritas and elderflower mules, bartender Kevin Kraft; happy hour 3–6pm Mon–Fri; public bays $30–$60 peak/non-peak; a $350/month founding membership with two hours of daily reserved play, up to four guests, discounted league and event rates, swag bag and liquor locker, plus two further undetailed tiers; the 40,449 sq ft 1913 building; Mid-Central Fish Co. from the early 1920s to the early 1980s shipping South African rock lobster tails and canned Alaskan salmon, with its refrigeration coils reused as bar-top legs; Honeybake Farm Sandwich and Screenland as later tenants; Triune (Steven Blakley, mid-2024) and office tenants in the building, with Havana Cafe and Lounge in Suite 140, Vessel Wellness in Suite 300, Shik Salon in Suite 305 and Obsidian Athletic Club in Suite 310 announced; 95 parking spaces in two gated lots and front and back patios; the “boundary-hopping mesh of neighborhoods” framing; GolfTRK as a locally owned competitor founded 2023 with four KC locations and a national franchise plan; and Iowa named as a possible second market.) ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴

2. Crossroads Golf KC — official site home page, accessed 2026-09-08. URL (HTTP 200. Asserts: address “1656 Washington St, Suite 100”; phone (816) 226-7872; email hello@crossroadsgolfkc.com; hours “Sunday – Thursday 9:00 am– 9:00 pm” and “Friday – Saturday 9:00 am– 11:00 pm”; the taglines “Serious Golf. Seriously Good Times.” and “Kansas City’s Home for Indoor Golf”; “crafted food and drinks pair with every round.” No prices, no bay count, and no personnel are published on this page.) ↩

3. Crossroads Golf KC — “About,” accessed 2026-09-08. URL (Asserts: the venue is “located in the Crossroads Arts District”; the building was “once home to a 20th-century cold storage warehouse and more recently Screenland Crossroads movie theater,” and is “now reimagined as The Mid-Central Exchange Building”; Trackman simulator technology; a bar and lounge; and founding memberships carrying “Unlimited monthly bay bookings, access to limited liquor lockers, extended access hours, exclusive member benefits.” No membership price, no bay count, and no owner names appear on this page.) ↩ ↩²

4. The Kansas City Star (@thekansascitystar), Threads post, July 2026. URL (Read from the search index; the post itself was not fetched. Asserts: “Crossroads Golf KC opened this week on Washington Street, filling a downtown gap for a neighborhood hangout, sports bar and golfing center.” Used only as second-outlet corroboration of the opening week and of the “KC” form of the name.) ↩