Fun City Adventure Park Is Coming to Delta Park

Fun City Adventure Park—a brand new East Coast-based firm of trampoline and indoor recreation facilities—is getting ready to place down its first set of West Coast roots within the Delta Park–adjoining Hayden Meadows Square buying middle.

Fun City submitted a industrial constructing allow in March with plans to remodel the long-vacant area (which final housed Dick’s Sporting Goods) right into a sprawling, multilevel play area. The buying middle presently hosts a mixture of big-box and native retailers, together with Lowe’s, Dollar Tree, a magnificence provide emporium, a veterinary clinic, and an Oregon DMV outpost, making the brand new addition a probable draw for North Portland households searching for lively leisure. The Fun City model operates greater than a dozen areas nationwide, with parks in New York, Ohio, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Alabama, Michigan, Illinois, Colorado, Connecticut and Virginia.

Once open, the indoor amusement park will characteristic wall-to-wall trampolines, twisting slides of various heights, foam pits, and colourful ninja warrior programs designed to problem each youngsters and adults. Other points of interest embody climbing partitions, an expansive arcade with greater than 20 gaming consoles, and a devoted toddler zone. Multiple foam and ball pits—tailor-made for individuals with various consolation and skill ranges—will present protected, sensory-friendly play environments. According to allow filings, the venue will even embody non-public celebration rooms and occasion areas, making it a gorgeous choice for birthdays and group celebrations.

Opening day should still be a methods off since a metropolis of Portland official says Fun City’s allowing and development course of continues to be below evaluate. The firm’s industrial constructing allow course of has eight excellent checksheets from teams reviewing issues akin to zoning, life security, structural, plumbing, and hearth security, and has awaited response since August. The different open allow, for electrical work, has had no updates from Fun City because it failed an inspection in July (WW couldn’t attain a Fun City consultant for remark).

“The ball is in Fun City’s court to respond to each of these eight checksheets with updated plans or additional information,” says Ken Ray, a spokesman for Portland Permitting & Development. “We look forward to issuing the permit once it passes all of its required reviews and final permit fees are paid.”

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