When entrepreneur Nilesh Patel and his household moved to Tallahassee in 2011, he wasn’t planning on entering into the amusement business. Then sooner or later he went searching for a enjoyable and thrilling household leisure heart the place his younger daughters may have birthday events. When he couldn’t discover one, he had a sense that there could also be an unfulfilled area of interest out there. A couple of years later he determined he would construct his personal and that’s the place District 850 got here to fruition. Named for the Tallahassee space code, District 850 is the primary trendy FEC within the space. Beforehand, residents in search of a primary-class heart needed to journey to Jacksonville, Orlando and even Atlanta. Now with District 850, it’s in their very own yard.
An skilled businessman who has operated gasoline stations, comfort, and liquor shops and leased industrial actual property, Patel is savvy sufficient to know what he doesn’t know. He did his homework for a few years, attending key business occasions like IAAPA and LaserTag360. He additionally labored carefully with Jerry Merola or Amusement Leisure Administration.
District 850 opened its doorways on November 15, 2020 regardless of the uncertainty of the pandemic. At first, there was restricted occupancy out of an abundance of warning and District’s 40,000 sq. ft allowed snug social distancing. Now, District 850 is working at full capability.
Enterprise at District 850 to date has been higher than anticipated, Patel is happy to say. “We’ve been nothing however blessed. Regardless of the pandemic, everyone locally has welcomed us.”
District 850 presents many facilities, corresponding to an onsite restaurant with scrumptious culinary choices, to a variety of video games and actions, corresponding to bowling, ax throwing, escape rooms, laser tag, a ropes course and XD Darkish Experience, and a high-of-the-line arcade. The VIP Hyper Lounge has change into a preferred vacation spot for native companies and organizations trying to host “outdoors of the field” occasions. The VIP Hyper Lounge presents a luxurious bowling expertise you’ll be able to’t get anyplace else in Tallahassee.
Whether or not you hire out the VIP Hyper Lounge, one of the 4 personal birthday celebration rooms or just are available for a date night time or household day, Patel ensures that his 120-member employees will deal with you to superior customer support, supply premium merchandise and an unequalled expertise. The core values stem from a steadiness of enjoyable, security, service and high quality.
“Visitors ought to expertise the very best high quality of the whole lot, from eating to points of interest, all underneath one roof whereas feeling absolutely taken care of,” mentioned Patel. “We aren’t merely right here for leisure; we’re within the enterprise of making recollections.”
