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Rendering of a JumpShot Live venue's exterior. [Image: JumpShot Inc.]
Jumpshot Live: Basketball Eatertainment Concept To Launch Out of Dallas
by David Seeley | Sep 30, 2024
Topgolf meets basketball in this new concept launching out of Dallas. Led by CEO Derrick Mayes, the former Super Bowl-winning Green Bay Packers wide receiver, JumpShot Live venues are slated to offer 50 custom-designed gaming bays—with "patent-pending tech" that allows the hoop and net to move dynamically along each 40- by 10-foot lane.
by David Seeley |
Jul 30, 2024
Why take cuts in a dusty batting cage when you can swing for the fences with friends in a buzzworthy venue? That's the idea behind Batbox, which has chosen DFW for its first U.S. location after opening 13 venues across Mexico. Now, with a $7.3 Series A closed, Batbox is calling its shot: 25 U.S. locations by 2030.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 19, 2024
After launching in 2020 at the onset of the pandemic, Crush It! scored by offering multi-sport Full Swing Golf simulators, letting customers play football, baseball, soccer, hockey, and more. Now it's added nearly 4,000 SF, rolling out six lanes of Duckpin Social bowling along with new sports-themed arcade games and AR darts.
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by David Seeley |
Jul 18, 2024
The first TOCA Social immersive soccer entertainment venue opened in London in 2021, attracting cast members of "Ted Lasso" and top Premier League stars. Next summer, the first U.S. venue will kick its way into Grandscape in The Colony, thanks to a partnership with Major League Soccer in advance of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
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Rendering of Netflix House location at Galleria Dallas [Image: Netflix]
A ‘Netflix House’ Immersive Experience Venue Is Coming to Galleria Dallas
by David Seeley | Jun 18, 2024
The Netflix House coming to Dallas in 2025—one of only two planned in the U.S.—will be a full-blown immersive entertainment venue where fans can experience hits like "Bridgerton" and "Squid Game" beyond the screen. Merch, meals, and show-themed drinks will be on tap too.
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by David Seeley |
Nov 15, 2023
A football is round with points on each end. A bowling pin is tall and wobbly. They were never meant to mingle—but somehow they do at Fowling Warehouse, a 71,000-square-foot food-and-entertainment venue in Plano.
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by David Seeley |
Aug 15, 2023
"Sensing Deep Space: Pandora's Cluster" will take people on an artistic journey to a galactic collision 4 billion light years away—with a little help from the SciArt Exchange, UT Dallas, an Australian composer and audiovisual artist, and others.
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by Lance Murray |
Aug 10, 2023
Slated to open in spring 2025 next to the PGA of America HQ in Frisco, The Bays Golf Experience and Suites will feature private hitting bays inside individual suites, four stories of "top-tier" golf entertainment, the "largest television in North Texas," the most advanced TaylorMade golf technology, custom club fittings, and more. (Did we mention the waterfalls?)
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Sixes Social Cricket is coming to Grandscape in The Colony. [Photo: Sixes Social Cricket]
U.K.’s Sixes Social Cricket Is Launching Its First U.S. Venue at Grandscape in The Colony
by David Seeley | Apr 18, 2023
North Texas is quickly staking claim to be the capital of cricket in the U.S. We already have the first professional cricket stadium in the U.S.—Grand Prairie Stadium, home of Major League Cricket's Texas Super Kings, who'll host the MLC's inaugural match this July 13th. Now U.K.-based Sixes Social Cricket has announced the U.S. debut of its immersive social cricket experience here, too. It's slated to open this summer at Grandscape, the shopping and entertainment destination in The Colony.
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by David Seeley |
Feb 14, 2023
Ready to really get in the game? Dallas-Fort Worth has become
a major testing ground for an endless variety of immersive entertainment concepts—and more high-tech amazements are on the way.
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by Quincy Preston |
Dec 15, 2022
Dallas-based Drive Shack Inc., creator of the modern mini-golf brand Puttery, plans to voluntarily delist from the NYSE in order to focus on running the business and achieving growth.
Entertainment venues and "competitive socializing" are a driver of that growth: Puttery has expanded to five locations since its debut in North Texas in 2021. "Going dark" will allow management and employees to focus on running the business and achieving growth—without the distractions of being a publicly traded company, it says.
Entertainment venues and "competitive socializing" are a driver of that growth: Puttery has expanded to five locations since its debut in North Texas in 2021. "Going dark" will allow management and employees to focus on running the business and achieving growth—without the distractions of being a publicly traded company, it says.
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