A “mecca of family entertainment” is headed for Maricopa.
Scott Bartle, a former Maricopa resident, wants to build an indoor-outdoor family entertainment center near Copper Sky Regional Park, according to public records released to InMaricopa Tuesday.
A project narrative submitted to the city’s planning department last week detailed plans to “help satisfy a decades-long need” for Maricopa by creating a 2.5-acre family entertainment center, which would include miniature golf, duckpin bowling, an arcade and ropes course and a café in phase one; bumper boats and go-karts in phase two.
Currently, the entertainment landscape for families in Maricopa is barren. Families typically have to commute to Tempe, Chandler or Mesa for similar entertainment options.
It’s something Bartle said he hopes to correct in the coming months.
“Maricopa needs this,” Bartle told InMaricopa this morning. “We need safe, fun activities for kids and families in town. We need entertainment that doesn’t require yet another roundtrip on [State Route] 347.”
The only other similar development on the horizon is Elevate Trampoline Park, proposed for the southwest corner of Alterra and John Wayne Parkways. However, the project has not moved forward since it was announced in July.
Despite that, Bartle said there’s one thing he’s looking forward to with the development.
“Smiles, lots and lots of smiles,” he said. “Maricopa’s family entertainment center will be a place people go to make bad days good, good days great and great days epic.”
Scott Bartle is the publisher of InMaricopa.
