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Business Wire
6 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Puttshack Brings Upscale, Tech-Driven Mini Golf and Dining to New Dania Beach Location Opening August 27
BUSINESS WIRE)--Puttshack, the world's first and only upscale, tech-infused mini golf experience, will be elevating gameplay to new heights with the opening of its newest location at Dania Pointe on August 27, its 22nd venue and second in South Florida. Located at 1825 Way Pointe Place, the 25,000+ square-foot venue will offer immersive mini golf, globally-inspired food, hand-crafted cocktails, and a vibrant social atmosphere perfect for all ages. The newest Puttshack will feature four highly competitive, tech-driven nine-hole mini golf courses, six Challenge Hole suites, has two full-service bars, a private event space, and an outdoor patio. Dania's Game-Changer: The Challenge Hole The Dania Beach location will be the third in the U.S. to feature one of Puttshack's newest innovations in indoor mini golf: Challenge Hole suites, a semi-private, elevated experience designed with groups in mind. The Challenge Hole is a dedicated mini golf suite where guests can enjoy 90-minute sessions of head-to-head competition with a variety of unique mini golf games, all in one space. Perfect for celebrations, team outings, or casual hangs, the Challenge Hole offers a social, interactive environment complete with full-service dining and beverage service. Dania Beach will feature six of these suites, available for advance booking. 'We're excited to introduce Puttshack to Dania Beach as we continue expanding across Florida,' said Susan Walmesley, CMO of Puttshack. 'This new location reflects everything we love about South Florida: vibrant, social, and full of energy. From our tech-driven gameplay to immersive new features like The Challenge Hole, we've created a space that brings people together in a fresh and memorable way. We can't wait to welcome the community in to see what we're all about.' Mini Golf, Reimagined At the heart of the Puttshack experience is its proprietary Trackaball™ technology, which powers a one-of-a-kind gameplay that tracks players' scores in real time – no pencils, no paper, just pure competition. Players will tee off across multiple 9-hole courses, each packed with interactive elements like pop culture trivia, arcade-style challenges, and crowd-favorite hazards. Food & Drink Worth Playing For Combined with the one-of-a-kind gameplay is a thoughtfully-curated culinary experience, shaped by hands-on research and development from Puttshack's experienced food and beverage team. The globally inspired menu will also feature the Miami Tailpipes– Cuban-style croquette spring rolls filled with ham & cheese béchamel, and red pepper aioli. For every order sold, Puttshack will donate $1 to Feeding South Florida, supporting the surrounding community. Guests will also enjoy a full-service bar offering imaginative craft cocktails like the Pineapple Mezcal Margarita served with a jalapeño-infused popsicle, Pornstar Martini topped with smoke, and the Frozen Coconut Aperol Margarita– a local feature. Guests can also enjoy a mix of zero-proof options, wine, and beers from Invasive Species Brewing, 3 Sons Brewing Co, and Cigar City Brewing. The blend of bold flavors, vibrant drinks, and top-tier hospitality delivers an elevated yet playful experience that's just as memorable as the mini golf itself. 'Our vision with Dania Pointe has always been to create a lifestyle destination where people can spend a day shopping, enjoying our restaurants and events and having fun at our entertainment destinations,' said Maynel Alvarez-Requejo, Senior Director of Lifestyle Marketing for Kimco Realty. 'We've come full circle with the highly anticipated opening of Puttshack. The positive feedback and excitement we're hearing throughout the community has been amazing.' Puttshack Dania Beach will officially open to the public at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, August 27, and will operate Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m., and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Kids are welcome until 8 p.m., after which the venue becomes 21+. Guests can sign up for Puttshack Perks at to be the first to know when reservations go live and receive a free game of mini golf. Game and dining reservations will open on August 13, ahead of opening day on August 27. Inquiries for private events such as corporate outings, celebrations, and parties are now being accepted for dates after opening at About Puttshack Puttshack is a leading concept in the emerging and growing market of competitive socializing. Combining a tech-infused mini golf game with an exceptional food and beverage offering, Puttshack has multi-generation appeal. Our proprietary Trackaball™ technology allows guests to play a point-scoring game surrounded by an upscale and exciting environment. Puttshack is the perfect place for dates, family bonding, birthdays, nights out with friends, or corporate outings. Since opening its first location in 2018, Puttshack now has several locations across London and the U.S. The company has its global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, with a UK headquarters in London. For more information, please visit About Dania Pointe Dania Pointe is a 102-acre premier South Florida open-air destination with nearly one million square feet of retail, entertainment, and restaurants, complemented by a full-service Marriott and AC hotel, luxury apartments, and the corporate campus of Spirit Airlines. This master-planned open-air destination offers plentiful parking in an unbeatable South Florida location, two miles from Fort Lauderdale International Airport, four miles from Port Everglades, and six miles from downtown Fort Lauderdale. Locals and tourists alike are welcome to celebrate all year on the Lawn, a meticulously manicured open area for relaxation and conversation under swaying palm trees. Dania Pointe offers a variety of unique and exclusive experiences, events, and programs such as live music, Wellness Wednesdays, Family Sundays, Night Artisanal Markets and much more. Dania Pointe is owned and operated by Kimco Realty Corp. To learn more and explore Dania Pointe, visit About Kimco Realty® Kimco Realty® (NYSE: KIM) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) and leading owner and operator of high-quality, open-air, grocery-anchored shopping centers and mixed-use properties in the United States. The company's portfolio is strategically concentrated in the first-ring suburbs of the top major metropolitan markets, including high-barrier-to-entry coastal markets and Sun Belt cities. Its tenant mix is focused on essential, necessity-based goods and services that drive multiple shopping trips per week. Publicly traded on the NYSE since 1991 and included in the S&P 500 Index, the company has specialized in shopping center ownership, management, acquisitions, and value-enhancing redevelopment activities for more than 65 years. With a proven commitment to corporate responsibility, Kimco Realty is a recognized industry leader in this area. As of March 31, 2025, the company owned interests in 567 U.S. shopping centers and mixed-use assets comprising 101 million square feet of gross leasable space. The company announces material information to its investors using the company's investor relations website ( SEC filings, press releases, public conference calls, and webcasts. 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Axios
02-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Old Orchard in Skokie gets new Puttshack
Puttshack opened its second Chicago-area location this month at Old Orchard in Skokie, following its first location at Oakbrook Center in 2021. The vibe: The 30,000 square foot-interactive space features two bars, a private event space and tech-driven mini golf courses powered by the brand's leading trackball technology. Zoom in: I checked out Puttshack with my sister and played one round when I quickly realized I need more practice! I was also left impressed with the food options. During our visit, we tried Korean BBQ buns ($16), Thai fried chicken bites ($15), and a Quesabirria ($16). You can also sip on themed cocktails, like Hennessy Islands and Puttshack Paloma, but if you're thirsting for something a bit lighter, I tried the cotton candy crush mocktail, which was just as sweet as a bucket of cotton candy. Games start at $14.
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
IAAPA Expo thinking bigger at convention center
The IAAPA Expo plans to expand its footprint at Orange County Convention Center, a move that is said to reflect the health of the tourism industry and the boom of related segments. The annual trade show will move in the convention center's West Concourse for the first time in 2026. Previously it has been only in the North and South concourses. 'The industry is growing. We see that with the projects like Epic Universe, but we also see it with all the smaller attractions, which happen everywhere now — if it's a Ripley's Mirror Maze or if it's a Puttshack or if it's a PopStroke — all those little attractions are actually contributing the success of the attraction industry,' said Jakob Wahl, president of the Orlando-based International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions, a k a IAAPA. The expo is known for its vast, teeming trade floor that includes vendors of all manner of manufacturers and creative types, ranging from water-slide equipment to major roller coasters to plush animals for carnival games to theme park announcements. The assortment of participants has been diversifying, Wahl said. 'We have seen more and more resorts coming, more and more cruise ships,' he said. 'We have seen an increased growth of food and beverage vendors, and we're working on an increased focus on technology vendors. There are many, many companies in that space.' Gator with bungee-corded jaw rescued, relocated to Gatorland The 2025 expo floor is sold out with more than 1,100 vendors, some of which will set up shop in the convention center parking lot. The event had more than 40,000 attendees last year. IAAPA Expo, which also includes educational sessions and excursions to Central Florida attractions, introduced themed pavilions last year, including an area devoted to food and beverage companies and a Halloween-driven section. 'We want to expand and, at the same time, we want to use that expansion to further grow the show, to be more creative, to be more global and to be also more immersive,' Wahl said. 'This is where we will introduce some pavilions next year at the show to really cater to new industry, to new segments of our expo which might not have had the same presence as we thought in the past,' he said. Orlando's Titanic attraction adds recovered necklace to artifact lineup This year's expo begins Nov. 17, but the expansion into the West Concourse is scheduled to kick in next year. 'Such an expansion, actually, is not that easy to execute,' Wahl said. 'We actually start working up to one and a half years in advance on the floor plan.' IAAPA Expo has been an annual presence at the convention center since 2010. IAAPA moved its home base from Alexandria, Virginia, to Orlando in 2017 and later constructed its global headquarters on Taft-Vineland Road. Universal Studios: 'M3GAN' again has moves in theme park Email me at dbevil@ BlueSky: @themeparksdb. Threads account: @dbevil. X account: @themeparks. Subscribe to the Theme Park Rangers newsletter at
Chicago Tribune
16-06-2025
- Business
- Chicago Tribune
Puttshack, opening at Skokie's Old Orchard mall, features high-tech mini-golf
A new 30,000-square-foot indoor mini-golf venue with food and drink is scheduled to open at Westfield Old Orchard Shopping Center in Skokie on June 20. The venue is also the final business put into place to occupy the square footage of the former Lord and Taylor store at the outdoor mall. The others are Zara, Arhaus and Pottery Barn. The nine-hole mini-golf venue uses motion sensor technology to measure how many strokes a player takes to finish a course, among other tech infusions to the game of putt putt. The Skokie location has four courses, like most of Puttshack's locations, and offers 'challenge holes,' an additional mini-golf experience that uses virtual reality and is only in Skokie and Puttshack's suburban Dallas location. Carlos Navarrete, Puttshack's director of operations, said the Skokie location is slightly larger than their Oakbrook location, which allowed it to have the challenge holes and also a layout that connects a rentable private room and bar to the courses. 'We have had technology that nobody (else) has,' Navarrete said of the technology that activates features on every hole in the course. 'And on top of that, the type of service, the type of cuisine, the type of drinks that we serve here, that's different.' The Skokie location will have a wide variety of bar foods including skewers, quesabirria, bao buns and flatbreads. Each location of Puttshack also has regional differences to cater to each audience, according to Navarrete, and the Chicago edition of spring rolls, called 'tailpipes,' will be filled with Italian beef, giardiniera and cheese. Puttshack's addition to the former Lord and Taylor site is part of the mall's redevelopment, planned for two phases. The first phase is anticipated to bring 600 apartments to the former site of Bloomingdale's and the current site of Forever 21 and Barnes and Noble, according to Westfield Old Orchard's General Manager Maegan Akers. 'We're very excited to finally have the last piece of the Lord and Taylor development, and I think it feeds nicely into our next phase of development with the residential coming up,' Akers said. The Barnes and Noble and Forever 21 will relocate to the former Zara location, she said. 'We've started all the not fun behind-the-scenes utilities, designs, planning and all of that. All the fun stuff where we actually start taking down the building is happening early 2026,' Akers said. Currently, Puttshack has a few locations at suburban malls that also have residential buildings, near Nashville and St. Louis, according to Navarrete. 'For us, it's creating a whole city, where you can get everything you need and in one space,' Akers said. In the next phase, a community green space is also envisioned to connect the residential area to the mall.
Boston Globe
13-06-2025
- Business
- Boston Globe
As Massachusetts' string of rainy weekends continues, businesses see unseasonal trends
This spring's Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up A typical spring could have five or six consecutive rainy weekends, but this unusual year has already produced 13 in a row, with a 14th very likely this week, said Globe lead meteorologist Ken Mahan. Advertisement 'You don't really make that business up,' said Chris Lohring, owner of Notch Brewing, a tap room and beer garden in Salem and Brighton that has seen its primarily outdoor business cut almost in half. 'People don't all of a sudden go out more, it's just lost.' But driving people inside can be a benefit to other businesses. Advertisement The recent rainy days have driven up traffic at Puttshack, an indoor miniature golf venue with locations in Boston's Seaport and Natick. Bookings during recent weekends have increased by almost 20 percent, with customers lining up outside the doors before they even open for the day, said regional director of operations Kerry Henderson. 'If it starts to rain mid-afternoon, we can get rushes of guests coming in from other outdoors spots in Seaport. For our Natick venue, it's a similar story,' said Henderson. People line up to play mini golf at Puttshack on a recent Wednesday afternoon. Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff This atypical rainy streak is unlikely to continue much longer, said Mahan. As the summer progresses, the temperature differences that cause storms balance out, bringing more sunny days. Signature indoor attractions such as the Museum of Fine Arts have also seen a jump in visitors on Boston's dreary weekends. When the weekend days are split between one rainy and one sunny day, like this past weekend, the museum sees a pattern of noticeably more visitors on the rainier day, a spokesperson said. Although customers have still been making their annual visits to Tony's Clam Shop on Quincy's Wollaston Beach, the weekend crowds to start off the season have been smaller with fewer families bringing young kids for seafood on the restaurant's outdoor patio and beer garden, said owner Gary Kandalaft. The clam shop has also had to cancel live music at its beer garden multiple weekends, not opening the bar they have in the back and closing earlier as soggy crowds disperse. 'It's not like it should be,' said Kandalaft. 'We've had some bad springs, but this has to be near the top.' At Advertisement But Funtleyder said she's hopeful that business will see a boost when the weather clears up, with people looking to get back outdoors. 'I am hoping that it does more than bounce back to normal,' she said. 'I'm hoping that people are excited to get outside and they come out and have fun.' Maren Halpin can be reached at
