A 50-bay golf range and indoor simulators. Pickleball courts. A huge deck. Pickleball courts, two regulation-size hockey rinks with plenty of stadium seating, and lots more.

Jim Long, owner of the Longplex Family and Sports Center at 300 Industrial Way in Tiverton, has big plans to expand his center, and said Wednesday that he can’t wait to get started.

“We finally got the first step out of the way,” Long said, five days after the Tiverton Town Council voted unanimously to sell three Longplex-related entities some 72.7 acres of land in the park to help him realize his vision for Longplex (members Denise Demedeiors and Deb Janick were absent from the meeting).

The $1.236 million sale is contingent on a host of needed town approvals, and Long spent Wednesday morning meeting with members of the Tiverton Planning Board to go over the next steps. He hopes to be on the planning board’s agenda for Tuesday, April 1 and said he and his team are getting their paperwork in order.

Long has wanted for years to expand his Longplex complex, which is already one of the largest indoor sporting venues in New England. On Tuesday evening, he wrote in a letter to the community that he is thrilled to get to work, and thanked residents, members of the town council, interim town administrator and other town officials for advocating and agreeing to work with him as he goes forward with the project.

“This deal is very important to Longplex,” he wrote. “Among other improvements, we will now be able to add over 450 new paved parking spaces to accommodate sports tournaments and other events. Other improvements include indoor car storage/car enthusiast club and a hotel, the details of which have not yet been finalized.

“I would like to personally thank the Tiverton voters, all of the Tiverton residents and all of the Longplex customers. This “would not have been able to happen without all of you.”

“I want to thank the new (town council) president, John Edwards, vice president David Paul, and the three new members, Craig Committo, Blake Hayden and David Perry, for going out of their way to make this project move forward. I want to thank Pat Jones, our interim town administrator, for getting everyone on the same page making this deal complete. This has been a long time coming.”

Council approves three sales agreements:

• The first sale, to Street Legal LLC, includes 16.48 acres. Buildable acres are being sold at $36,699 per, and ‘open space’ acres at $1,000 per, for a total of $277,663.18. The parking facility would be built within these parcels;

• The second sale, to Longplex, includes 48.44 acres sold at $36,710 per buildable acre, and $1,000 for open space acres — 23 acres in total for a total of $858,393.50. The rink and recreational facility would be situated within these parcels;

• The third sale, to LP Properties LLC, includes 7.746 acres sold at $13,008 each, for a total of $100,761. The hotel would sit on these parcels.

Under terms of the sales contracts, the current recycling center footprint will stay as is for up to five years, and the town will lease the land back from Long for $1 per year over that period. As for a future home for the recycling center, Edwards said Tuesday, “the council will be looking for a new location to be decided on this year.”

Long went a bit further in his letter:

“In addition to these agreements ... Longplex is negotiating to make further infrastructure improvements to the Industrial Park to allow for the construction of a new town public works and recycling center.”