SAN JOSE – A brand new escape room might be inbuilt a former bank branch in San Jose, public documents show, and can be a singular venue on this a part of the Bay Area's largest city.
According to a proposal submitted to town's planning department, an escape room is being considered in a former Wells Fargo branch in north San Jose.
The site of the planned construction project is, in line with the planning documents, at 1705 North First Street.
“We want to open an escape room business in the building of a former bank branch,” says the appliance from the applicant, who does business as Escape Entertainment LLC. The LLC is situated at the identical location as an Omescape game room in Sunnyvale.
A have a look at the escape room company's website shows that Escape Entertainment operates Omescape rooms in San Jose, Sunnyvale, New York City and Toronto in Canada.
Each of the Omescape sites comprises several game rooms with different difficulty levels.
The existing San Jose location on Wool Creek Drive offers players the chance to flee from a cat kingdom, a dangerous museum, an insane asylum, a virus lab and a wizard's fortress.
According to planning documents, the escape room planned for North First Street in San Jose may have a complete size of 557 square meters.
The planned venue in north San Jose would come with separate rooms for five different games, a setup just like the corporate's other escape room locations. The North First Street location would even have a fundamental lobby and break room.
The games in Escape Entertainment’s existing venues also offer space for groups of various sizes.
At the prevailing San Jose location, one game room is designed for 2 to 6 players. Two of the games are designed for as much as ten players. Games at the present San Jose location have a 60-minute deadline, in line with the corporate's website.
The proposal is within the very early stages of town planning and review process. Preliminary proposals are sometimes submitted to acquire the views of San Jose's city planners on a proposed project or development.
The timeframe for the opening of the brand new escape room was not immediately clear.
The bank branch property is owned by a family trust whose trustee is Barbara Bressanello, in line with a Santa Clara County real estate database. The family trust is predicated in town of Carlsbad in San Diego County.
“Escape rooms are immersive, realistic games that require players to solve riddles and puzzles within a set time to reach a specific goal,” Escape Entertainment explained in a proposal summary it submitted to city planners. “It is an indoor entertainment activity. We plan to build five games.”
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