Monday, February 18, 2013

Courts Plus Community Fitness - New Indoor Playground by Iplayco



Parents will have another cure for cabin fever at their disposal Wednesday when the Fargo Park District opens its first indoor park with a towering playground structure at the newly expanded and renamed Courts Plus Community Fitness.



http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/390350/



District officials hope the playground – the centerpiece of a roughly $4 million renovation and expansion of Courts Plus – will lead to healthier children and new members for the publicly owned facility, which has about 5,000 members.



Park board member Joe Deutsch began pushing for an indoor playground in the summer of 2010 to give children a place to play during cold weather. District officials decided pairing it with Courts Plus would allow the playground to stay open year-round and make Courts Plus more appealing.



The Junior League of Fargo-Moorhead, a women’s service club with charitable and educational goals, got involved in October 2011. The group had been looking to take on a large community project and, with many moms among its members, identified the need for an indoor playground.

“Fargo, as you know, gets very, very cold, and it’s hard to find places to bring your kids in the winter,” said Christina Snider, the league’s community vice president.

League members and park district officials toured more than a dozen indoor playgrounds – some multiple times – in the Twin Cities area and elsewhere, including the 37-foot-high Adventure Peak in Edina, Minn., and the Backyard at the Community and Cultural Center in Detroit Lakes, Minn.


With input from the league, the district expanded its playground plan and bought the equipment from International Play Co. of Langley, B.C. The structure is 52 feet long by 36 feet wide by 36 feet tall. Together with an adjacent parents’ lounge, pirate ship-themed toddler area and interactive room with exercise-based video games.


INFORUM  Published February 16, 2013, 11:30 PM

More images to follow, their grand opening is February 20, 2013

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

JCCA ALIVE "GROW" New Installation for Iplayco - Indoor themed tree house



International Play Company is pleased to be involved in this project. We designed, manufactured and installed the indoor tree house.

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The opening of the expansion adds a multi-storey indoor tree house, to "Grow", the recreation and development area for children ages six months to 12 years.

ALIVE, the experience-based, destination health park in Charlotte, Mich., has expanded its facilities, increasing the services and experiences offered to the mid-Michigan community.  ALIVE: Your Community Well-Being Place was opened by Hayes Green Beach Memorial Hospital in November 2011. The HGB Wellness Center added nearly 350 members since services and activities expanded with the opening of ALIVE.

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

CBS - Best of Minnesota - Indoor Play Area



CBS - Best of Minnesota - Indoor Play Area


EDINA, Minn. (WCCO) – When it comes to Minnesota’s best indoor play area, it was a very close vote, with Eagles Nest in New Brighton barely getting edged out by Edina’s Edinborough Park.
If you’re looking for a way to tucker out the kids over winter break, Edinborough Park is the place to be.

“A lot of times kids are just looking around at the different plants, the big ceilings and stuff, and then usually parents will be like ‘That’s where we’re going,’” said assistant manager Amanda Holle.
There’s a bouncy house, a giant open gym with all sorts of scooters and trikes to ride, in addition to basketball hoops lining the edges.

But the biggest attraction is Adventure Peak.


It’s a series of tubes, tunnels and slides, which doesn’t look all that different to a super-sized hamster cage.

Seth Finestack brings his three kids here almost every other week.

“It’s a great place for the winter time for the kids who have a lot of energy — and our kids do,” Finestack said.
International Play Company designed, manufactured and installed this large themed indoor play structure for Edina's Edinborough Park.

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/12/29/best-of-mn-indoor-play-area/