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- Cinergy Entertainment plans to build an entertainment center of $ 40 million in Corpus Christi.
- The proposed center of 90,000 square feet would include a cinema, a bowling alley, an arcade and other attractions.
- The municipal council will discuss potential tax incentives for the project, including $ 4 million in discounts.
- The project should create jobs and stimulate subsequent development in the region.
A new entertainment center features bowling alley, films and an arcade can be on the way for Corpus Christi.
The Cinergy Entertainment, based in Dallas, plans to develop a center of 90,000 square feet on the south side, according to city documents.
The group “specializes in luxury cinemas and entertainment centers”, indicates a memo of the agenda, appointing among the equipment planned six screens of film, 10 bowling lanes and more than 100 arcade games, as well as “a complete service of food and drinks, a bar area designated with a sporting atmosphere, and additional interactive family attractions such as (green reality) and simulators sportsmen ”.
It is estimated that the total investment value would be around 40 million dollars, with approximately 24 million dollars exclusive to construction costs, according to the document.
On Tuesday, the municipal council is expected to discuss potential tax incentives for the development of the entertainment center on 10 vacant acres off Rodd Field Road and South Padre Island Drive, a preliminary program.
In play represents around $ 4 million in land tax and sales tax discounts as part of a potential economic development agreement, funded by part of the new income which should be generated by the construction and operation of the entertainment center, according to the memo.
The discount money would go to the infrastructure of new public services to serve the property, an expense estimated at around 9 million dollars, according to documents.
The agreement, if it was approved, would be in place for 15 years or until the discounts reach a total of $ 4 million, according to the memo.
As part of the case for the agreement, city officials wrote that “the project should be a development catalyst on the remaining 50 acres of unlikely land”, where its location “will attract hundreds of thousands of customers per year from the region”.
“This project will respond to families, group outings or events, students and tourists who will add to the quality of life and offer various indoor entertainment options for residents and visitors,” said the memo.
In the files, city officials also claim that the establishment of a location of Cinergy will inject local chests with approximately $ 3.9 million over a decade and will generate around $ 3.7 million in sales taxes over the same period.
The municipal councilor Gil Hernandez has raised objections to the provision of incentives to retail and restaurants, citing concerns about the creation of unfair competition with existing companies that have not received any incentives – a situation which, according to her, can be “choosing the winners and losers”.
In this case, however, there is no direct competitor and the entertainment center would serve as an anchoring project which could promote additional commercial development, he said.
Because the property has an agricultural exemption, the city does not currently benefit from land taxes, which means that there will be “a positive positive over time,” said Hernandez.
Cinergy has nine locations, with the majority in Texas – notably Amarillo, Odessa, Copperas Cove, Midland, Granbury and Marble Falls, according to the site.
Some, but not all, Cinergy entertainment centers offer ax or escape launch options, according to the company’s website.
The site in consideration is a part of a larger property where there had been discussions on the development of a Costco warehouse, reported the time in 2014, allocating information to the owner of the property and a local developer.
An agreement could not be concluded for incentives, the article indicates.
If the company progresses in the development of the entertainment center on site, it is estimated that it would be completed in about three years, according to the city documents.