endike emphasized the facility as a gateway to youth sports that the area, and many kids, have never experienced before.
“We’re hoping to really show them what it’s like to be on a big stage,” Grunendike said.
Young athletes will be able to see their names on giant scoreboards, experience pyrotechnics, and “a lot of technology to make them feel like it’s a big deal. We don’t really have much of that around here,” he said.
Located next to the WaTiki Indoor Waterpark Resort, Grunendike said they hope to ensure kids have a good time in and out of the gym. The integration of work and play between state-of-the-art sports equipment and South Dakota’s largest indoor water park hopes to accomplish that.
While the venue seeks to highlight youth sports, it can accommodate anything from weddings to trade shows. The Ellsworth Ballroom, totaling 22,000 square feet, can be separated into three smaller spaces and accommodate up to 3,178 people, with its largest section holding nearly 1,300. The ballroom will be able to serve up to 1,700 plated meals. The current city events center in Box Elder City Hall can accommodate 250 people.
The venue will also feature four spaces called Spirit Salons, geared toward more intimate groups. Each salon will seat roughly 50-60 people, with dividers, and the ability to combine any of the four. A multi-purpose, or Green Room, will feature space ideal for coaches, referees or keynote speakers.
The venue will absorb what is currently the Courtyard Marriott’s conference center, and be directly connected. Between the Courtyard and The Box, up to 15 separate meeting spaces will be available.
The “cool part,” Grunendike said, is the technology.
He described their audio visual system as the “most state of the art system of any event center in the region.” The facility will have a full DMX controller with multiple screens throughout the building. The banquet space will have projection screens on each wall, with a 360-degree ability to project images onto the walls.
Fueling the vision of exciting possibilities for young athletes, Grunendike painted a picture of pyrotechnics set to music, fog machines and flashing LED lights.
“Imagine a middle school kid basketball game, it's their championship tournament, and we announced their names up on a screen, the room is dark, there's sparks going off, a fog machine, you know, it's just the sixth grader being announced as the starting guard, and what a cool feeling that’ll be,” he said.
The venue won’t just be a location for tournaments, tt will be a “really great experience,” he said.
As the facility looks toward opening day, staffing is building from the top down. As general manager, Grunendike has been joined by an activity and events coordinator and director of sales. They hope to ramp up staff the beginning of next year. Grunendike estimated the staff will fluctuate between 30-45, depending on events.
The city of Box Elder celebrated the placement of The Box’s final beam at a “Topping-Off Party” in early August — a traditional ceremony signifying a sound structure. Guests were invited to sign the last support beam on the exterior of the facility.
“So we painted a beam white — the one that's our cornerstone — we all sign it. And then they put it on as a symbol of 'we have a frame here, we've moved past the structure. Now it's time to fill this thing in.' So it's just kind of a celebration of a milestone,” Grunendike said.
Looking back on the origins of the project, Grunendike said COVID-19 “almost ruined it.” Hospitality took a huge hit, and funding was unheard of, he said.
“We were very fortunate we were still doing well. And we were able to get approval for this project in the middle of the big economic collapse of COVID. It was just so uncertain," he said. "So it really tells us a lot about the strength of our operations to be able to manage through all of that and still be able to expand.”
The facility is a public/private endeavor, with the city of Box Elder owning the building and working with Scull Construction as the contractor and LIV Hospitality managing. Scull Construction is the project's contractor.
For Grunendike, The Box presents an opportunity to combine past experiences while starting something completely new.
“This is the building of a brand from the ground up,” he said. “And it’s been really interesting and exciting.”
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Bridesmaids (2011), This Is 40 (2012) and Spy (2015) are my three favourite Melissa McCarthy movies. The Heat (2013), Tammy (2014) and The Boss (2016) are the ones I found most disappointing.
The not so great news is that McCarthy’s latest Ben Falcone written/directed comedy/action/adventure Thunder Force falls firmly at the bottom of the latter category.
I honestly tried my very best to give Thunder Force, the story of estranged childhood best friends reuniting and ending up with superpowers a fair chance. It’s just unfortunate that the writing and pacing left me desperately wanting.
What makes it worse is that I wasn’t even tired when I hit play to watch a hopefully fun comedy in the afternoon. Yet, twenty minutes in, I awoke from a rather pleasant impromptu nap. A situation I feared might occur, especially after an unnecessarily long and unfunny bit of dialogue about salmon and a rock near the start of the movie. Nevertheless, I held on in desperate hope that things might turn around at any moment.
Things did not get better, not even a little bit. As such, after giving the movie one very last try, only to find myself waking up from my second nap in half an hour, I had to put an end to the madness.
Looking back, the most memorable parts of Thunder Force include the one brief moment involving rabbit-like teeth. And the other is the presence of Pom Klementieff as Laser.
Thunder Force is a film you watch, only if you absolutely must because you’re much better off revisiting the first three movies I mentioned at the start of this post.
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