A developer planning a $10 million entertainment center in Arizona hit a surprising regulatory wall: state law limits dance floors to 20% of a venue's total square footage, meaning a basketball-court-sized floor would need an acre-sized building. He's already built a successful barn-style venue in Tampa called Gramble.
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What I wanted to show was AJ and I met up in 2024. I was already working on what was called the Dallas Bull Saloon Boots and Buckles Entertainment 2023. I was working on an entertainment company already. And basically with my entertainment company, I was planning on building an event center so that we could have dancing and rodeo and everything all under one roof. And so Katherine will go through this slide deck, but I was raising capital for this. It's a $10 million project. We're going to relaunch it. AJ and I met up last night and we were talking about it again. And so we, we know that, for example, out here in Arizona, in order to have a big dance floor, the, the thing we need to have is in order to have a dance floor to fit all those people, we need to have a building that's 80% larger than the dance floor we want. So if we want a dance floor the size of a basketball court, we got to make it literally the size of a 1-acre building. The building needs to be like one whole ass acre. In order to get a basketball-sized dance floor. So here's the law right here. Arizona dance floor law says that there's only, uh, they ration it to 20%. It's not actually 10%, it's 20%. So 20% of a 2,000 square foot bar is only 400 square feet. And if you were trying to dance during COVID that meant you could only have 4.5 dancers on the floor. So, and that really sucked for being able to dance. Now the building in this picture is a building that I built down in Tampa, Florida. The style of the building is called a Gramble. Because it's the shape of a, uh, the way that they used to build barns if you were from Amsterdam. So in the Northeast, they were building a lot of these barns and these types of structures, and it spread all the way to the Midwest. And this particular structure, we built it down in Tampa, Florida, and it's still a hit. Catherine and I have been there twice, right? So big fun, big fun. So anyway, next one.
