Welcome to the forum. This may be eligible, but with “Generic business” as a rejection reason, this is one of the hardest kinds of nominations to get accepted. The previous advice to add more to the description about their specialties is spot on.
I would also recommend spending more time on the photo for your next submission. A great photo can help a nomination be accepted. This one has a lot of grass and sky compared to the point of interest you are nominating. I think this main photo would have looked better either taken in landscape mode or cropped to square. I take my photos before I ever begin my nomination, then crop, straighten, or otherwise slightly adjust them. When I make the nomination, I choose to use the existing photo option.
When you check the eligibility suggestions at Niantic Wayfarer it lists
- Popular restaurants
- Favorite coffee shops
It is difficult to see how a brand new place as indicated by the banner would have had time to be a local favorite, but not impossible. But that is the bar your nomination would have to meet.
Your supplemental information should back up which of the main three criteria you feel this meets (social, exercise, exploration) along with any advice the reviewer might need to feel confident that this exists where you say it does and is what you say it is. This is where you can provide links to support your statement. You could also provide links to articles rating this place to back up that it is a local hot spot.
As far as using an upgrade goes, I have two recommendations for new reviewers. First, go to Settings on the Wayfarer site and turn “Automatically apply upgrades” to “Off” so that an upgrade is never applied to something that you did not want to upgrade:
Second, wait at least 24 hours after submitting to apply an upgrade to see if the ML (machine learning ai) model will decide the nomination. If it is going to accept or reject a nomination, it usually acts within that time frame. (Unless you use upload later, in which case it could be sooner.)
That’s a lot, so I will stop there. Glad you have found the forum, and hope we can help you be successful!