Will Carson City get proposed escape room? Planning commissioners to decide on new permit
On Wednesday, Carson City Planning Commissioners will consider a special permit for a new type of entertainment in the capital city: escape rooms.
In the last decade, escape rooms have caught fire nationwide as entertainment spanning all generations.
Escape rooms are typically themed, and participants must find and solve a number of clues and puzzles to make their escape before the time is up. Some popular themes include prison cells, Sherlock Holmes puzzles, heists, zombie survival and more.
In 2018, the Brewery Arts Center at one time offered an escape room with a music theme, set in an alternate reality. The room was created to support the arts programming of the BAC in a space that was normally dormant for the summer to accommodate the Levitt AMP Summer Concert Series.
If approved by the Planning Commission, the new escape room is proposed to set up shop at 716 N. Carson St., which currently is home to the Carson City Visitors Center and Messy Kid’s Art School among other businesses.
The business, Escape 36 LLC, is asking for a permit to create up to three escape rooms within the building.
Two of the rooms could accommodate up to 10 players at a time, and the third could accommodate up to six players.
In addition, each room would be monitored by an employee.
The Planning Commission meeting will take place Wednesday, Nov. 29 beginning at 5 p.m. in the Bob Crowell Board Room of the Community Center.
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