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Two new entertainment venues are in the works for Morrisville, with plans calling for indoor skydiving across from a local company's second high-speed go-cart track.
Garner-based Rush Hour Karting and Texas-based Urban Air have submitted plans to build facilities on a 13-acre property off Airport Boulevard north of the intersection with Chapel Hill Road.
Rush Hour Karting co-founder Adam Saad says the new location will be the company’s second site and will feature the latest electric go-karts and state-of-the-art, multi-level race track design.
“We’ve been here at our first location for 15 years now. Our main thing is we’re different than standard go-karting,” Saad says. “These are real racing machines... over 40 mph.”
The company targets adult customers including racing enthusiasts and corporate clients that are looking for a fun and engaging outing for their staff.
“It’s become hugely popular,” Saad says. “Especially being in North Carolina -- we’re in racing country.”
The new facility will feature a multi-level track design to fit a 1/3-mile course in a nearly 50,000-square-foot building.
“Because they’re electric there’s more torque," Saad says about the go-karts. "So they accelerate really fast.”
Plus, electric carts generate no fumes, unlike their gas-powered counterparts.
Saad says the Morrisville location will be perfect for corporate clients, with easy access to and from RTP. The facility will also include a 300-person banquet hall as well as axe throwing, escape rooms and virtual reality arenas.
Plans filed to the town earlier this year call for a combined 88,707 square feet of space across two single-story buildings separated by a large parking lot. The Urban Air building will have 41,232 square feet of space.
Urban Air, a family entertainment center with locations around the country, also features trampoline parks and climbing walls.
The land is owned by AIS Forestry and Farming LLC, an entity that belongs to the Stephens family of Raleigh. Saad says Rush Hour and Urban Air plan to eventually subdivide the land and purchase their portions after the project is complete. They will share the parking lot.
Forestry and Farming also owns a 22-acre property in west Raleigh next to the new Drive Shack -- it may become the site of a mixed-use office and residential development, if a rezoning request is approved.
A timeline for for when Rush Hour Karting and Urban Air would open was not available.
Garner-based Rush Hour Karting and Texas-based Urban Air have submitted plans to build facilities on a 13-acre property off Airport Boulevard north of the intersection with Chapel Hill Road.
Yes but only similarities would be indoor karting. The karts will be electric instead of internal combustion and the track will be different. I look forward to the new location.
I love the high speed go karts, and especially the electric ones which are quieter and have better excelleration.
My experience with Saad (Rush Hour owner) has been bad on several accounts, I hope he runs a better business in M'ville.
I'm glad to see this coming to us, I just hope he learns to focus on his customers better. (My experience is from 5+ years ago, I've never been back, so maybe it's better now?)
This land owner has a total of 98.5 acres in that area. It's a bit south of where the new McCrimmon Parkway intersects with Airport Boulevard, where International Drive dead ends.
Are the go karts going to be indoors? Even if they were outdoors it wouldn't be a bad thing, really, the closest residences are about a mile from here. Nobody wants to live in this spot because the airplane noise is pretty bad.
Nobody wants to live in this spot because the airplane noise is pretty bad.
I thought the same thing when they started building Brier Creek, but there are certainly a lot of people there now.
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