Main Event

[DowntownMan]

Drove by this location today and noticed they have cleared the land, put up a fence and brought in the trailer! This is officially underway!

[ljbab728]

Brianna Bailey's update.

Planned NW OKC entertainment center to feature bowling, laser tag, food and drink | News OK

Dallas-based entertainment venue Main Event is coming to Oklahoma City with a new 58,000 square-foot venue just off Memorial Road that will feature bowling, laser tag, an aerial ropes course, games, restaurants and a full bar.

The company has been looking to expand into Oklahoma for the past several years, said Main Event CEO Charlie Keegan. In January, Main Event purchased 5.6 acres of land just northwest of W Memorial Road and N Western Avenue for $2 million. A building permit filed with the city shows the new Main Event will cost $7.8 million to build.

“With Oklahoma City we feel like we have some brand equity in the market and that we will do well there,” Keegan said. “We think a lot of people in OKC shop and eat in Dallas on occasion and are familiar with our brand from our presence there.”

The company hopes to have the new Oklahoma City Main Event open sometime in 2015.

“There’s a handful of sort-of entertainment districts in OKC, but we chose the Quail Springs area because we think it kind of fits our profile,” Keegan said. “We’re a bowling-anchored family entertainment center — because bowling appeals to a broad demographic, we have an adult component, we have a good teenage component and kid component.”

[Plutonic Panda]

Their laser tag isn't that great

[bchris02]

This reminds me a lot of Playtime Pizza in Little Rock. Should be a fun time. I always liked the glow-in-the-dark put put.

[Anonymous.]

Maybe this will make laserquest lower their prices, right now they are the only legit lasertag game in town.

[bchris02]

Maybe this will make laserquest lower their prices, right now they are the only legit lasertag game in town.

If this is anything like Playtime Pizza, it won't be real competition for Laser Quest. LQ has a pretty good arena. This appears to be very basic.

[shawnw]

Maybe this will make laserquest lower their prices, right now they are the only legit lasertag game in town.

I feel like HeyDay is legit laser tag, but maybe that doesn't fit with "in town". Or maybe my idea of legit is, in itself, not legit.

[moose]

So there is some significant action going on at this location now. Lots of equipment on site and lots of dirt moving. They have a very large area completely fenced off but it appears that there is also dirt work happening just east of the fenced off area. Is this an extension or an additional project?

[Pete]

So there is some significant action going on at this location now. Lots of equipment on site and lots of dirt moving. They have a very large area completely fenced off but it appears that there is also dirt work happening just east of the fenced off area. Is this an extension or an additional project?

Probably just the parking area, which is east of the main building.

Couldn't find any other building permits in that area.


Glad this is ramping up!

[bradh]

civil utilities i bet start going in the ground early April

[Pete]

Found and labeled the building plan which is in the article on the top of the page.

[Dustin]

No glow in the dark golf?

[tpg4635]

The Main Events I've been to in DFW had the mini golf under the overhead ropes course. Don't know if that is the case here, but now that I am looking at it closer, it looks like the ropes course is over the games section, so I guess no mini golf.

[LuccaBrasi]

This is their new prototype.

[Pete]

This project is moving along. Thanks to Plutonic Panda for the photo:

[amaesquire]

Look how it backs up to a neighborhood! Thank god those aren't Mesta Park residents in there.

[Paseofreak]

Look how it backs up to a neighborhood! Thank god those aren't Mesta Park residents in there.

I get your joke entirely, and it made me chuckle a bit, but it's an entirely unfair characterization. Two residents complained about Guyutes and a whole bunch of them signed the petition in support of it. Beating up MP residents just ain't cool. Oh yeah, I live in Paseo, just so that's out there.

[Plutonic Panda]

6/6/2014

[pw405]

Wow, had no idea this was so far along.. With this and the addition to HeyDey in Norman, we'll have some nice indoor activity/entertainment venues next year.

[Plutonic Panda]

Yeah, it's a bit smaller than I had hope for, but it's nice!

[Dustin]

Yeah, it's a bit smaller than I had hope for, but it's nice!

Looks huge to me. How big are they usually?

[Mel]

That looks like a great place to go. I like having Grandkids, lets me have fun with them and I get to do stuff that would seem odd if I went by myself. Blacklight miniature golf! I wish the air hockey tables were uv too.

[shawnw]

Yeah, it's a bit smaller than I had hope for, but it's nice!

Yeah we know you hate it if it's not 50+ stories :-)

[Plutonic Panda]

Yeah we know you hate it if it's not 50+ stories :-)

I know man!!!! I mean, 50 stories is alright, but the party really only gets started when this city joins the mile high club

[warreng88]

Looks like Main Event has a place in mind for a Tulsa location as well:

An expanding family entertainment chain that offers bowling, multilevel laser tag, billiards, restaurants and more in one location plans to build a site in Tulsa.

Dallas-based Main Event Entertainment plans to locate its center at 7830 S. Santa Avenue

A commercial building permit filed with the City of Tulsa lists the estimated cost of the project at $6.2 million and the declared value of the proposed building at $11 million.

According to the permit, the proposed construction will be 150,000 square feet. In a previous company release, however, Main Event has noted that its locations range in size from 45,000 to 75,000 square feet.

OKC's location is supposed to be 58,028, so this one will be almost three times the size. Not sure why they would build one that big.

Main Event Entertainment to open in Tulsa - Tulsa World: Retail