Large family enjoyment center coming to Stillwater

STILLWATER, Okla. (KFOR) – The Stillwater Chamber of Commerce and the Tonkawa Tribe have partnered to develop a new 60,000 sq. foot family members enjoyment middle called the Hub in Stillwater. 

The Hub will be located in Northeast Stillwater on North Perkins Street and East Airport Street. It will characteristic bowling lanes, four motion picture theaters, arcade online games, pickle ball courts, meeting rooms, a sporting activities bar and of study course a foods venue. 

“I’m thrilled since we have acquired so numerous pickleball that we need to have a different area to play,” stated Connie Burd, Stillwater resident. 

Stillwater resident, Connie Burd, said the restricted pickleball courts in the town haven’t been equipped to keep up with the sport’s increase in reputation.  

“The population has developed so significantly, this is a likely to accommodate them. We have a few courts, and we have 12 men and women enjoying, and then we’ve received about 12 or 16 folks sitting down out waiting to engage in. So, with these other courts that they’re constructing out there at the Hub it is fantastic,” stated Burd.  

The pickleball courts are just a person element of the hub. Households will also be capable to delight in a evening out with 16 bowling lanes and 80 arcade game titles. 

The job will be a group work funded by the Tonkawa Tribe and the metropolis of Stillwater.  

“We have a really, really weighty family and little ones presence in our local community and so I assume getting some thing that grown ups can arrive and have a excellent time, but also households can appear and have a terrific time all beneath a person roof is tremendous thrilling,” said Reagan Mitchell, Financial Advancement Coordinator at Stillwater Chamber of Commerce.  

The enjoyment heart is also bringing in full and section time careers to the city. 

“The quantities I heard was 20 comprehensive time careers for the hub and many portion time careers as well… To be equipped to go function in the hub would be a actually awesome place to perform. So, I believe it is heading to be fantastic for our local community on quite a few stages,” claimed Brady Moore, interim Town Supervisor for the City of Stillwater.  
 
This will be the second HUB spot. There’s a lesser a person located in Tonkawa. 

In a assertion to Information 4 the President of the Tonkawa Tribe of Oklahoma Russell Martin reported estimate, “The Tonkawa Tribe of Oklahoma is grateful to formally announce its presence in the Stillwater Local community with the coming development of the second HUB place. Our relationship with the Chamber of Commerce and Town of Stillwater staff, as perfectly as other group members involved afterwards in the courting process, gave us the utmost assurance in the Stillwater community as the best fit for our second HUB strategy. This partnership, fostered by associations and deep mutual respect, will proceed to be mutually useful for all parties. We look forward to continued operate with the Chamber and Town team and search ahead to the good impacts manufactured by our additional presence in the neighborhood of Stillwater.” 

“I know that there’s a lot of men and women that are just genuinely clapping their arms about this entire endeavor,” said Burd.  

Builders plan to crack ground within just the next couple of months and hope the project to just take 12 to 18 months to full.