The Stonestown Galleria shopping center in San Francisco always has the usual suspects, mechanical stairs, a catering area and many windows to try your wallet. But in a company, it is not only your credit card that obtains training; It’s your heart rate.
“We are mounting the escalator. Everyone was like:” Oh, I was able to do their shopping. “And we come here to play,” said Nathan McCall, from Santa Cruz.
Nathan, his wife Jill, their children Saleh and Dorian, and his friend of the Autumn Burchell family, led two hours for a trip to the shopping center which was less a question of shopping and more strategy.
Inside, they found EnableA arena in high -tech team which is a laser label in equal parts, a brain teaser and a cardio explosion.
“This game in particular, I sweat. There is so much that must be online, the screen and make us move our body is so great,” he said.
The floors light up. The walls launch challenges. And the dashboard keeps you humble, especially when you play a catch -up with a 12 -year -old child.
One hour session costs $ 35 per person or $ 45 for 90 minutes. Jill McCall said that she was generally not a fan of shopping centers, but he was a slam dunk.
“I generally try to avoid shopping centers as much as possible for a very long time,” she said. “It’s just a place generally and it is certainly something that brought us back to a commercial environment.”
Across the country, shopping centers are in crisis. According to Capital shopping searchUp to 87% of major shopping centers are expected to close in the next decade.
Paco Underhill, author of Call of the Mall, which has been following these trends for decades, said that shopping centers are now going from retail centers to experience -oriented destinations – places that mix entertainment, catering and even accommodation.
“The wider context of the shopping center is:” Can I make it a real city? “This is what we call the creation of places,” he said.
As for the McCalls, they reached the top of the dashboard, but that, said Nathan, was never the point.
“The score is great, but we don’t spend much time looking at (on the score); the place where we spend a lot of time looking at each other,” said Nathan McCall.