Urban Air - part 1

I think you all know by now that my blog hiatus is due to us opening a business and having a lot less free time in the evenings.  Now instead of blogging, I am catching up on business with UA.

So let's back up to almost a year ago.  We were in STL for Kellen's birthday.  He was celebrating at SkyZone.  When we got back to KC, Adam decided we were opening one in Overland Park."  Now, you need to know that about once a month Adam has a new idea or plan for a business.  Those wheels of his are always spinning and most of the time I shoot the idea down or he talks himself out of it.  This idea...I was all over it!  We live in an area full of young families and nowhere for them to go in the city.  People were driving 15-30 minutes to the nearest entertainment/birthday party place.  Adam immediately looked into SkyZone and someone already owned the franchise rights to KC.  That's when we started to look into Urban Air.  We had been a few times when we lived in Keller.  Within a week Adam was on a flight to DFW to meet with the franchise owner.  At this point we spent most nights after the kids were in bed brainstorming all the questions we had before we 100% jumped in.  Adam hit it off with Michael (UA franchise owner)...small world, he actually lived around the corner from us and his daughter was in preschool with our kids!

We decided we were all in, now we just needed to get the funding figured out.  Adam called his brother to talk about it and Aaron couldn't believe it (we hadn't told anyone) since the night before his neighbor told him that her and her sister were opening a trampoline park in OP.  What!?!?  What are the odds, right??  So, there was serious meetings/negotiations for the next couple of weeks.  In the end, it was...are we going to both open similar businesses within miles from one another and compete or can we do this together??  We decided to go for the latter, it seemed like the obvious choice.  

Next up was lots of behind the scenes details that took lots of hours/meetings/lack of sleep ;).

 Adam had a work trip back in April in our old town so the kids and I tagged along.  We were in the process of opening Urban Air but I didn't blog about it in the original post because we hadn't told many people about it yet.  We met the franchise owners for lunch and they took us to Urban Air.  The kids loved it!

 The kids were officially pumped to have their own Urban Air!  It was so nice to meet Michael and Melissa since we would be working so closely with them for years to come.  They couldn't have been nicer and the kids had so much fun with their daughter.

 Our 4th baby in its beginning stages.

 The building had been a Steinmart so it needed a complete demo.  This was the beginning stages.  If you have been in the store now, you are looking at the front desk area.

Lots and lots of work to be done!  Demo started in April.