SALISBURY TWP., Pa. – An expansive, multi-level facility designed for kids to let free is making strikes in Lehigh County.
Star Park Indoor Playground & Party, a multi-level, indoor playground for kids, will quickly transfer from its almost year-old location on the Lehigh Valley Mall in Whitehall Township to a bigger, 30,000-square-foot area on the South Mall in Salisbury Township, proprietor Mustafa Kaya instructed 69 News on Wednesday.
South Mall is situated on Lehigh Street in Salisbury Township.
Star Park will maintain its final day of enterprise on the Lehigh Valley on Sunday, May 17, earlier than holding a grand opening at its new South Mall location on June 27, Kaya mentioned.
Star Park’s administration staff introduced the upcoming transfer on the enterprise’ Facebook web page.
“We’re moving to a brand a new location with a bigger, more colorful, and more exciting concept for our little guests!” the web announcement reads.
“Get ready for even more fun, laughter, and unforgettable memories at our new home.”
A Star Park Indoor Playground & Party facility operates on the Lehigh Valley Mall in Whitehall Township.
At the South Mall, 3300 Lehigh St., Star Park will occupy an up to date area that beforehand housed a Habitat for Humanity of the Lehigh Valley ReStore location and seasonal Spirit Halloween retailer close to the middle of the mall.
Kaya additionally operates two different Star Park areas on the Franklin Mall in Philadelphia and Cherry Hill Mall in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
The playgrounds function expansive, interactive play areas the place youngsters (ages 12 and beneath) can climb, play, discover and use their imaginations in clear, vibrant and colourful areas.
At the Lehigh Valley Mall, Star Park includes a multi-level play construction, that includes a number of varieties of sliding boards, climbing equipment, tunnels and swings.
The construction is surrounded by a big ball pit, and youngsters can place the blue, pink, pink and white balls right into a vertical mechanism, transporting them to an overhead receptacle that may then be opened, dropping the balls to the ground.
A Star Park Indoor Playground & Party facility operates on the Lehigh Valley Mall in Whitehall Township.
Socks have to be worn within the playground, which additionally includes a climbing wall, an air hockey desk, wall-mounted video games and ride-on-toys equivalent to a pedal-activated merry-go-round.
There’s additionally an interactive space, that includes washable stones, the place children can dig and take part in different actions.
The multi-level play construction and all different facility elements will probably be moved to the brand new South Mall location, the place extra options equivalent to bounce homes and extra interactive video games will probably be showcased, Kaya mentioned.
“Our playgrounds bring joy to children and their families, and we love to see the kids having fun,” Kaya told 69 News last year.
Two-hour, open play admission to the Lehigh Valley Star Park location is $11.99 for ages 23 months and younger; and $21.99 for ages 2 – 12 years.
One adult receives free admission per child, and additional adult admission is $5.
A Star Park Indoor Playground & Party facility operates on the Lehigh Valley Mall in Whitehall Township.
Punch playing cards, that includes 10 entries for $85 (ages 23 months and youthful) or $150 (ages 2-12 years), provide a more cost effective possibility for households with a number of youngsters or households that plan to go to the ability on a number of events, Kaya mentioned.
“They can use the punch cards whenever they want,” Kaya mentioned.
There are additionally non-public occasion rooms, in addition to a lounge space for fogeys and guardians to calm down whereas watching their youngsters play.
At the South Mall, Star Park will occupy a renovated area that was beforehand dwelling to a wide range of different tenants, together with Steve & Barry’s, Black Rose Antiques, Limerick Furniture and a Habitat for Humanity of the Lehigh Valley ReStore location.
The youngsters’s playground will be a part of a rising roster of South Mall tenants, which additionally consists of the newly opened Burlington and Giant shops and S&D Soulicious Cuisine restaurant.
Other companies which have opened on the mall in recent times embody DragonKnight, providing a wide selection of recent and classic buying and selling playing cards, comedian books, motion figures and collectibles; Poppteas, providing bubble tea, connoisseur popcorn, popcorn hen and extra; and Back to the Arcade, that includes greater than 70 retro and fashionable arcade video games.
The South Mall is situated at 3300 Lehigh St. in Salisbury Township.
Another indoor youngsters’s playground, Ohana WonderTown Playground, opened in 2023 in a 3,200-square-foot area on the South Mall.
Ohana areas on the South Mall and Palmer Park Mall areas are persevering with to function as regular, proprietor Yadira Disla instructed 69 News.
However, Disla is presently scouting new areas and hopes to maneuver the South Mall location to a different spot within the Allentown space within the close to future, she mentioned.
The South Mall’s leasing staff additionally in talks with some extra potential tenants, in line with Benjamin Diaz, a business realtor with The James Balliet Property Group, which handles leasing on the South Mall.