Elk Grove is getting a Sports Complex

This is Great news for Elk Grove, we have needed a family destination here for a long time. Lets hope that this goes as planned. The Idea sounds great, and the bowling alley should open next month

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City goes with one-stop shopping for family

recreation

By Bob Walter
bwalter@sacbee.com

Published: Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008 |

The town that didn't have a bowling alley will not only get one - but also will have a fitness center, water park, extreme sports complex, synthetic ice skating rink and maybe even a gymnastics academy.

All in one spot.Dream X

At 200,000 square feet, almost half the size of Arco, the cavernous former JVC compact disc manufacturing plant on Laguna Boulevard will feature a Strikes Family Entertainment Center, with bowling, an arcade, corporate conference center, Coach's restaurant and bar and even synthetic ice skating. Strikes is set to open the week of Thanksgiving.

But it also will include:

• A California Family Fitness center with 55,000 feet of workout space, basketball courts and such, along with three outdoor pools and a water park area. When it opens next spring, it will be the local company's 16th complex - No. 15 is set to open Monday in Citrus Heights.

• Dream Xtreme, a locally owned extreme sports complex with a $1 million wave-making machine for surfing and body surfing; rock-climbing walls; trampolines the size of a basketball court, with 45-degree trampolines on the outside for bouncing off the walls; and paintball outside in at least one 50-foot-by-100-foot tent. Shane Carter of Elk Grove, head of a group of eight local investors, also hopes to open the complex by Thanksgiving.

• A California Sun Center tanning facility and, perhaps, a major sports training center, dance studio, gymnastics academy, roller rink and more.

For now, it is a massive structure with 33-foot-high ceilings, filled with construction workers, painters, all manner of equipment and 44 not-yet-glistening bowling lanes.

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		Mark DeGennaro Keller Williams Realty 9355 E Stockton Blvd. Suite 210, Elk Grove, CA 95624 Direct: (916) 688-8060 Office: (916) 480-8324 E-mail: markdegennaro@kw.com Website: http://markdhomesales.com