With interior demolition approved in June, NRG Adventure Park is advancing plans to remodel the closed Bealls store in Southside Commons at an estimated project cost of $440,000.
The city issued a permit June 23 for contractor Greenlogic LLC of Orlando to demolish the interior space to prepare it for tenant build-out for NRG, an indoor playground, at a cost of $12,000.
The city now is reviewing a permit for interior remodeling of 79,715 square feet of space at 860 Commerce Center Drive in the Southside Commons shopping center at Southside Connector and Tredinick Parkway in Arlington, north of Regency Square Mall.
Excel Engineering Inc. of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, is the project manager.
The operator is listed as T Park Jacksonville FL LLC doing business as NRG Adventure of Flushing, New York.
The flyer for Southside Commons, which is owned by Jacksonville-based Sleiman Enterprises, shows NRG Adventure Park in the closed 80,000-square-foot Bealls space.
A sign in the window has shown that NRG is coming soon.
The playnrg.com site says it has a park “coming soon” at 660 Commerce Center Drive, which is the center’s general address, in Jacksonville. Buildings and spaces in Southside Commons are separately addressed.
The playnrg.com site says of the center:
“Prepare to stimulate your senses, and create electric memories at NRG Adventure Park. The ULTIMATE destination where families and friends ignite their eNeRGy in an EXTREME way. Our indoor playground takes fun to the next level.”
It says each adventure park includes activities for groups of all ages. It offers birthday parties, as well.
It calls itself more than “just a trampoline park,” rather an “epic trampoline playground” with features such as a ball pit, basketball, dodgeball, foam pit, harnessed climbing, jousting pit, ropes court, toddler zone and zip line.
NRG Adventure Park’s first location is in Springfield, New Jersey, and a second is in Fargo, North Dakota. The website shows 30 locations coming soon in 19 states, including three in Florida in Brandon, Jacksonville and Pinellas Park.
In October 2019, Bealls turned the store into R.M. Bealls, a brand of the department store chain, but closed that in 2020.
For the past several years, the space was used as a Spirit Halloween store for the seasonal sales of Halloween costumes, accessories and decor.
Southside Commons, built from 2004 to 2008, has such anchor tenants as The Church of Eleven22, Planet Fitness, Ross and Michaels.
The shopping center comprises almost 300,000 square feet of retail space among multiple buildings on 26 acres. It also has four available outparcels.
