Popular Northern Minnesota Entertainment Venue Opening New Twin Cities Location

This is exciting news for a very popular Northern Minnesota business, as they just received approval to start work on a new facility in the Twin Cities area.

Oftentimes, it's a Twin Cities area business that decides to expand northward, but this time it's the other way around. A Duluth area entertainment business just got the green light to start work on its second location in one of the Twin Cities' suburbs.

Skyline Social & Games continues to grow

For anyone who lives in (or has visited) the Duluth area, you have probably been to (or are at least familiar with) Skyline Social & Games in Hermantown.

The Twin Ports area event venue has grown quite a bit in recent years. It has long been a popular bowling venue with great food and an arcade, but a recent renovation a few years ago saw the venue expand to offer duckpin bowling, axe throwing, and outdoor games like sand volleyball, cornhole, and bocce.

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This multi-use event space has also been host to a number of events, including their annual Bloody Bash charity Bloody Mary event to raise money for ALS.

The ever-popular venue is now looking to expand to a second location in the Twin Cities area, just getting approval from the planning commission of one of the suburbs.

Where is Skyline Social & Games expanding to in the Twin Cities?

The City of Apple Valley's Planning Commission got an application from Skyline's ownership in March to build a new entertainment venue in the expansive Orchard Place development.

The development is a combination of residential space and businesses. Tennants listed by the property management company include businesses like Chipotle, Crisp & Green, HealthPartners, Les Schwab Tire Center, Mister Car Wash, Punch Pizza, SportClips, Starbucks, and Texas Roadhouse.

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The proposal described the venue's proposed location at the southwest corner of 155th Street West and English Avenue in Apple Valley.

Apple Valley's Planning Commission unanimously approved the proposal on April 2, allowing work to get underway on the nearly 100,000 square-foot new venue.

What will be offered at the new Twin Cities Skyline Social & Games location?

According to the plans proposed to the planning commission, the venue will include a total of 97,200 square feet of combined indoor-outdoor space, with 46,200 square feet being indoor space and 51,000 square feet being outdoor space.

The plans specify that the indoor space will include 20 bowling lanes, 12 duckpin lanes, 5 axe throwing lanes, an arcade, and several banquet & meeting spaces, similar to their Hermantown location.

Their outdoor space will include 9 sand volleyball courts, 12 cornhole courts, 4 bocce courts, and indoor/outdoor bar, fire pits, and outdoor dining seating, included covered patio space.