Sports Entertainment Center
Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2015 12:03 pm
I've been kind of quiet about what my wife and I were planning to do with our lives after leaving our corporate gigs and moving to Sonoma County. Everything was kind of cloak and dagger on the part of the lead guys for the project, so we had to keep everything in the "quiet phase" until all of the PR was lined up correctly and a lot unknowns had become knowns.
But finally, I can share ... we will be focusing on the trampoline park operations in this facility, and I will also be heading up the accounting operations for the facility in the role as Controller:
http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/ ... x3jGrzj.97
The reason I am posting this here isn't because I think most people really care too much about my accounting career, but rather because there is a Bozeman/Montana-centric element to this that I've been wanting to talk about for quite awhile on this board. After this facility is up and running there will be a wealth of knowledge among the management team regarding the financing, development, and operations of a facility of this kind, and there's a good chance that they would be interested in taking this concept to new markets.
Ever since I started working with these guys, the idea of trying to do something like this in Bozeman (perhaps in a few years, as the market grows) has been on the tip of my brain. Given the long cold-weather months and the relative lack of indoor sports facilities in the area, along with the opportunities driven by a growing and dynamic MSU campus, I could see something similar to this in Bozeman potentially being possible. My really wild idea was to partner with MSU to have them use the indoor turf space as their indoor practice facility for set hours of the day, and then use drop-down netting to split up the turf space for other activities (indoor soccer, youth baseball, flag football, lacrosse, etc.) for the rest of the day and on weekends. A local bar could be partnered with to move into the facility, and other entertainment options could be built in as well (family entertainment center, trampolines, bowling, indoor golf facility, etc.).
It would require some major investors, of course, but it could also potentially provide a very nice ROI for those investors.
Anyway, just something to think about. If anyone is interested in brainstorming about something like this as a potential "down the road" project, my email address is brad.bergum@rockinjump.com. I'd say that in about a year from now, we will have the knowledge and experience (including financial results of the Santa Rosa facility) to really have the ability to pull together very solid business plans for potential facilities elsewhere. Doing something like this in Bozeman could well just be cloud talk, but on the other hand it really could be a very cool reality if the economic growth it the Gallatin Valley continues to tear along and the numbers all fall into place.
But finally, I can share ... we will be focusing on the trampoline park operations in this facility, and I will also be heading up the accounting operations for the facility in the role as Controller:
http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/ ... x3jGrzj.97
The reason I am posting this here isn't because I think most people really care too much about my accounting career, but rather because there is a Bozeman/Montana-centric element to this that I've been wanting to talk about for quite awhile on this board. After this facility is up and running there will be a wealth of knowledge among the management team regarding the financing, development, and operations of a facility of this kind, and there's a good chance that they would be interested in taking this concept to new markets.
Ever since I started working with these guys, the idea of trying to do something like this in Bozeman (perhaps in a few years, as the market grows) has been on the tip of my brain. Given the long cold-weather months and the relative lack of indoor sports facilities in the area, along with the opportunities driven by a growing and dynamic MSU campus, I could see something similar to this in Bozeman potentially being possible. My really wild idea was to partner with MSU to have them use the indoor turf space as their indoor practice facility for set hours of the day, and then use drop-down netting to split up the turf space for other activities (indoor soccer, youth baseball, flag football, lacrosse, etc.) for the rest of the day and on weekends. A local bar could be partnered with to move into the facility, and other entertainment options could be built in as well (family entertainment center, trampolines, bowling, indoor golf facility, etc.).
It would require some major investors, of course, but it could also potentially provide a very nice ROI for those investors.
Anyway, just something to think about. If anyone is interested in brainstorming about something like this as a potential "down the road" project, my email address is brad.bergum@rockinjump.com. I'd say that in about a year from now, we will have the knowledge and experience (including financial results of the Santa Rosa facility) to really have the ability to pull together very solid business plans for potential facilities elsewhere. Doing something like this in Bozeman could well just be cloud talk, but on the other hand it really could be a very cool reality if the economic growth it the Gallatin Valley continues to tear along and the numbers all fall into place.