soft launch last month<\/a>.<\/p>\nMost of the new attractions are located in an adjacent space formally occupied by\u00a0Gates College of Business, Culinary & Healthcare.\u00a0O\u2019Neil said renovations took about eight months to complete.<\/p>\n
Along with the new attractions, the business maintains its existing stage, bar, video game machines and pool tables. The restaurant has been rebranded under the name Ribs and Wings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
O\u2019Neil said the existing sports simulators have been upgraded and a screen has been added to the stage for use for future live music events.<\/p>\n
People can come in any time during regular business hours, but\u00a0O\u2019Neil said its best for larger groups to reserve the facilities they want to use.<\/p>\n
“If a group comes in, we’d like to book them and make it a special experience for them. We definitely advise you to call ahead,” he said.<\/p>\n
Groups could include birthdays, sports teams, workplace team-building or any other collection of people looking to have a good time, said O’Neil.<\/p>\n
“When you have a\u00a0group together that wants to celebrate something, a graduation,even if you want to celebrate a Saturday, we’re here for you,” he said.<\/p>\n
Mayor Matthew Shoemaker was on hand today for the official ribbon-cutting event at the space.<\/p>\n
After a tour, Shoemaker thanked owners\u00a0Das and Sharmila Kumar for investing in new activities not previously available in the city.<\/p>\n
“Thank you all\u00a0for making our downtown an active and fun place to be and there’s lots going on here and hopefully it’ll bring lots of people down here and they can stay in our community,”\u00a0said Shoemaker.<\/p>\n
The Kumars opened the business as Soo Blaster in 2017 as a bar, restaurant, arcade and concert and sports venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Matthew Shoemaker joined owners Das and Sharmila Kumar for a ribbon cutting as the newly expanded Blaster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,259367],"class_list":["post-716123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-matthew-shoemakersoo-blasterblaster-power-houset-j-oneil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}