Details: Different entertainment venue coming to ex-Dave & Buster’s Lexington site
A new entertainment venue that promises to be “the most fun you can have under one roof” is coming to Lexington.
Main Event Entertainment, a Texas-based company, will open the new dining and entertainment center near Fayette Mall and New Circle Road, according to paperwork filed with the city.
Main Event did not immediately respond to a request for comment on when the new restaurant and venue is scheduled to open.
Work has begun on the new nearly 50,000-square-foot building going up at South Park shopping center at 3220 Nicholasville Rd., next to New Circle Road where a Dave & Buster’s had been planned before the COVID-19 pandemic hit and forced the company to retrench.
For years the location was a TGI Friday’s restaurant before it moved across the street closer to Fayette Mall and for a short time a Winger’s restaurant before it was torn down. The lot has been empty for several years.
Main Event Entertainment Lexington highlights
Here’s what the new Main Event entertainment complex at 240 Canary Rd. will have, according to preliminary information:
- A restaurant and bar
- 22 state-of-the-art bowling lanes with multicolored LED lighting
- Laser tag arena
- Gravity ropes and zip lines
- Nearly 120 interactive and virtual video games
- Regulation-sized billiard tables and shuffleboard
Main Event Entertainment has 44 centers across the U.S., including one in Louisville at 12500 Sycamore Station Place, just off I-64 past I-265, the Gene Snyder Freeway.
The South Park shopping center is now owned by Kaden Companies and has added new tenants in recent years, including Burlington Coat Factory and Value City Furniture. Kaden did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This story was originally published April 18, 2022 at 11:50 AM.
