Altitude Arlington Opens: $1.2M Fit-Out in 31,512 Sq Ft
Altitude Trampoline Park Arlington opened its doors this weekend at 2216 South Fielder Road in Arlington, Texas, with a grand-opening program running Friday, October 23 through Sunday, October 25, 2026, per the event listing posted by the park itself.
The park has not issued a press release with square footage or investment figures. A Texas state filing has.
Project TABS2026013038, registered with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) on February 19, 2026, describes a $1,200,000 renovation of a 31,512 sq ft (2,928 m²) space in the Pioneer Plaza shopping center, including interior demolition of the previous tenant’s improvements.
For an investor comparing park openings, that is an unusual combination of records: a government filing with a cost estimate and a floor area, a live pricing page, and a membership ladder published on the park’s own site. Few openings this month come with all three.
This article walks through what the filing says, what it does not say, and the arithmetic a buyer can run on it.
1. The Opening, in One Table
Every figure below is either quoted from a named record or derived from one, with the derivation shown. Nothing here comes from the operator’s marketing.
| Item | What the record shows | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | 2216 S Fielder Rd, Arlington, TX 76013, in the Pioneer Plaza center | TDLR filing |
| Building | 31,512 sq ft (2,928 m²), a second-generation retail space | TDLR filing |
| Registered scope | Interior demolition of the previous tenant’s improvements, then tenant up-fit | TDLR filing |
| Estimated cost | $1,200,000, declared for the registered alteration | TDLR filing |
| Registered schedule | Filed 2026-02-19; planned start 2026-03-15; planned completion 2026-07-15 | TDLR filing |
| Grand opening | October 23–25, 2026, three-day event program | Park event listing |
| Walk-in passes | $19.99 for 90 minutes; $24.99 for 120 minutes; $11.99 weekday-morning junior session | Park booking page |
| Memberships | $15, $20 and $25 per month; $10 activation; six-month minimum | Park membership page |
Three of these rows deserve a caution. The $1,200,000 is the cost estimate declared for the architectural-barriers registration, not a total investment disclosure. The event listing is published by the park, so the dates are operator-stated. And the pricing pages are live retail offers that can change at any time. The filing, by contrast, is a fixed public record that will not move.
2. The Box: a Second-Generation Retail Conversion
The TDLR filing lists the facility as Pioneer Plaza, a Kroger-anchored shopping center in south Arlington. A 2019 leasing flier for the center describes roughly 105,000 sq ft of retail space with a grocery anchor, and records city traffic counts of 37,117 vehicles per day on Pioneer Parkway and 21,277 on South Fielder Road. Those counts date from 2017, so treat them as context, not current data.
The scope of work in the filing is the part worth reading twice. It covers interior demolition of the previous tenant’s improvements, followed by a tenant up-fit that includes partial demolition of both structural and non-structural partition walls. In plain terms, the franchisee did not build a shell. It took a box that a previous retailer had already fitted out, gutted part of it, and rebuilt the interior for assembly use.
This is the same conversion pattern we tracked in three markets where dead mall anchors became trampoline parks. A second-generation box brings real advantages: the parking is built, the utilities are sized for retail loads, and the landlord has an empty space earning nothing. The Arlington filing shows the pattern operating in an ordinary neighborhood strip center, not just a struggling regional mall.
It also carries the same risks. A former store was not designed as an assembly building, so clear height, floor loading, fire separation and egress capacity all need verification before the lease is signed, not after. The TDLR record does not name the previous tenant, and neither TDLR nor the park publishes a floor plan of the finished park. We are not going to pretend otherwise. What a buyer should verify in any conversion, and how standards such as ASTM F2970 frame the obligations of the court operator, is covered in our safety standards overview.
For a sense of how the floor area compares, our 22,000 sq ft layout breakdown maps a smaller park zone by zone. At 31,512 sq ft, the Arlington building has roughly 43% more floor area than that reference layout, which is enough room for the full attraction stack the park lists, but also enough room to overspend on attractions nobody asked for.
3. The $1,200,000 on the Filing: What It Covers and What It Does Not
The most quotable number in the filing is also the most misquotable. Derived from the two figures on the record:
$1,200,000 ÷ 31,512 sq ft = $38.08 per sq ft (about $410 per m²) of registered fit-out cost.
Compare that with Oxygen Activeplay’s Crawley park, which opened on October 16, 2026 in a converted 22,000 sq ft gym at a reported investment of more than £2 million, or roughly £90.91 per sq ft. The gap between $38 and £91 per sq ft is large, and the reason matters more than the number. The TDLR figure is a declared construction estimate for the registered alteration scope. The Crawley figure is a total project investment reported in local press. These are different animals.
What the TDLR estimate probably excludes: the attraction equipment package, arcade machines, furniture, point-of-sale systems, preopening payroll and marketing. The filing registers a construction project, not a business launch. Quoting $38 per sq ft as a total-investment benchmark would understate a real budget by a wide margin; treat it as a floor on the construction line item only.
One more detail in the filing rewards attention. The form asks whether the private funds for the project are provided by the tenant, and the recorded answer is no. On its face, that points to the property owner funding the registered scope, a common landlord contribution arrangement in second-generation retail deals, where the owner pays to make a dark box leasable again. The form does not explain the arrangement, and we would be guessing at the details. But the question it raises is exactly the right one for any buyer: how much of the build-out will your landlord fund, and what does that cost you in rent or term? Our investment cost breakdown separates the line items you can expect a landlord to touch from the ones you will carry alone.
The rent side can be illustrated from published market data, with the caveat that the actual lease is not public. CBRE put the average US retail rent at $24.79 per sq ft per year in its Q2 2026 figures. Applying that national average to 31,512 sq ft gives about $781,000 per year, or roughly $65,100 per month. The industry occupancy-cost rule of thumb, which we used in our rent analysis, holds that rent should stay near 12–13% of revenue. The arithmetic a buyer can run on this site:
Required annual revenue ≈ annual rent ÷ occupancy-cost ratio = $781,000 ÷ 0.125 ≈ $6.25 million.
Required visits ≈ required revenue ÷ average ticket. At the park’s top published walk-in price of $24.99, that works out to about 250,000 visits per year, or 685 per day. This is a lower bound, and a deliberately unrealistic one: it assumes every visit pays full peak walk-in price, with no members, no junior discounts and no party revenue. Real visit requirements sit above it; the formula, not the output, is the point.
4. The Timeline: Eight Months From Filing to First Bounce
The registered schedule in the filing runs from March 15 to July 15, 2026, a planned construction window of 122 days, about four months. The park opened on October 23. That is 100 days after the planned completion date, and about eight months after the filing was registered.
A commercial-permit aggregator shows pre-opening permit filings for this address in January and April 2026, which fits the pattern: mechanical and electrical permits trail the initial registration. We cross-checked that aggregator against the TDLR record rather than citing it alone, because permit-aggregator data is secondhand.
The lesson for buyers is not that this project ran late. A three-month gap between planned completion and public opening is close to normal for attractions, where inspection, staffing and soft-opening checks stack up after the builders leave. The lesson is that the four-month figure on a construction filing is never the project duration. Add design and permitting before it, and equipment delivery, inspection and hiring after it, and the honest planning number for a 30,000 sq ft second-generation conversion is eight months from committed paperwork to first customer. Our project walkthrough lays out those stages in order.
5. Opening-Day Pricing: Three Passes and a Toddler Daypart
The Arlington park’s booking page, live on opening day, lists three walk-in passes. The effective hourly rates are derived from the published prices:
| Pass | Price | Duration | Effective rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior Jumpers Jam, Mon–Fri 10:00–13:00, ages 6 and under | $11.99 | Morning daypart | 48% of the top walk-in price |
| 90-minute jump | $19.99 | 90 min | $13.33 per hour |
| 120-minute jump | $24.99 | 120 min | $12.50 per hour |
Two pricing levers are visible on day one, and both are worth copying. The first is the daypart discount: the junior morning session prices weekday mornings at $11.99 against a $24.99 peak walk-in, which is how an operator fills the trough hours when school-age guests are in class. We saw Oxygen Activeplay run the same logic at scale with its £30 five-visit half-term pass, where the pass price worked out to £6 per session against a roughly £15 single-visit list price.
The second lever is session-length discounting. Moving from the 90-minute pass to the 120-minute pass adds $5.00 for 30 extra minutes, a marginal rate of $10.00 per hour against the $13.33 average rate of the shorter pass. The second half hour sells at a 25% discount to the first hour’s average. Longer sessions raise dwell time without new acquisition cost, and the price ladder quietly rewards the customer for staying.
The attraction list on the park’s own page rounds out the picture: a main court, extreme dodgeball, battle beam, a zip line into a foam pit, a soft play zone, a sport court, an arcade branded Apex Arcade, and two interactive reaction games, Freestyle Duo and the High-9 Reaction Wall. That mix matches the pattern we documented in three parks where interactive attractions became the baseline rather than an upgrade. A franchise park opening in late 2026 treats digital reaction games and arcade as standard equipment, not extras.
6. The Membership Ladder and the Six-Month Commitment
The membership page lists three tiers, all requiring a $10 one-time activation fee and a six-month minimum commitment:
| Tier | Monthly fee | Jump access | Minimum first six months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jump In | $15 | 120 min per day, Monday to Friday | $100 ($90 fees + $10 activation) |
| Jump Pro | $20 | 120 min per day, any day | $130 ($120 + $10) |
| Jump Champ | $25 | 180 min per day, any day | $160 ($150 + $10) |
The break-even arithmetic is blunt. A Jump Pro membership costs $20 per month while a single 120-minute walk-in visit costs $24.99. One visit a month covers the fee; every visit after that is revenue the member has already paid for. This is the trade-off we quantified in our membership pricing analysis using a park-level revenue disclosure: memberships convert walk-in volatility into recurring revenue, but cheap unlimited access also hands regulars the keys to your peak capacity.
The ladder also does quiet work as a group-demand engine. Jump Pro includes a $10 buddy pass against a $24.99 walk-in, a 60% discount engineered to make every member bring a paying companion. The weekday-only Jump In tier at $15 exists to monetize the same trough hours as the junior morning session, from teens and remote-working adults this time.
One discrepancy is worth flagging honestly. Altitude’s brand-level communications, including its December 2025 franchise release, market a $10 Endless Jumps membership. The Arlington park’s own page currently lists tiers starting at $15. Park-level pricing differing from system-level marketing is common in franchising, and the $10 figure may describe a different product or a different market. We report both numbers rather than averaging them away.
For context on the franchise itself, our comparison of three franchise disclosure documents covers Altitude’s fee and investment structure alongside Sky Zone and Urban Air. The brand’s December 3, 2025 release named Arlington as one of six new franchise signings that quarter, alongside Hoover, Alabama; Sacramento, California; Peachtree City, Georgia; Crown Point, Indiana; and Denton, Texas, against a stated target of 12 to 15 new parks per year.
7. Summary: What One Government Filing Is Worth to a Buyer
A press release tells you a park opened. A state filing tells you what the building cost, how big it is, who owned the project paperwork, and when the builders planned to finish. The Arlington record set, taken together, supports four planning conclusions.
First, second-generation conversions are the default expansion path for US trampoline brands right now, in strip centers as well as dead malls. Second, a registered construction estimate of $38 per sq ft is a floor, not a budget; total project cost will land well above it once equipment and preopening costs join. Third, plan eight months from committed paperwork to opening day for a 30,000 sq ft conversion, not the four months on the construction schedule. Fourth, the pricing architecture on opening day already runs three levers: a toddler daypart, session-length discounting, and a membership ladder with a six-month floor under it.
None of this requires believing anything the operator says. Every number traces to a government record or a published retail page, and the two gaps in the record, the unnamed previous tenant and the unpublished floor plan, are stated as such.
8. Three Things You Can Do Today
1. Pull the filings for your own market before you sign anything.
County permit records and state barrier registries show what comparable builds actually cost and how long they took, in your market rather than a brochure’s. For a benchmark layout in your size band, request a design and quote with the area and building type spelled out.
2. Design your price ladder before opening, not in month three.
Arlington opened with a daypart discount, a session-length discount and a membership floor already in place. Retrofitting any of them later costs goodwill; launching with them costs a spreadsheet.
3. Ask what the landlord will fund in a second-generation box.
The Arlington filing records the project funds as not tenant-provided. Whatever the exact arrangement behind that answer, the question is live in every second-generation deal, and the answer changes your equipment budget by tens of thousands of dollars. Shortlist certified trampoline court packages only after the landlord conversation, so the remaining budget drives the equipment list.
FAQ
How much did the Altitude trampoline park in Arlington cost to build?
The TDLR filing records an estimated cost of $1,200,000 for the registered renovation of a 31,512 sq ft space, which works out to $38.08 per sq ft. This is the declared construction estimate for the alteration scope, not a total investment figure; equipment, fixtures and preopening costs are not in the record. Expect a complete project budget to land well above the filed number.
How long does a trampoline park build-out take?
The Arlington project registered a construction window of about four months, from March 15 to July 15, 2026, and opened to the public on October 23, roughly eight months after the filing. Design, permitting, equipment lead time, inspection and hiring all sit outside the construction window, so eight months from committed paperwork to opening is the more honest planning number for a conversion of this size.
How much is a membership at Altitude Arlington?
The park lists three tiers: Jump In at $15 per month for 120 minutes of jump time Monday to Friday, Jump Pro at $20 per month for 120 minutes daily, and Jump Champ at $25 per month for 180 minutes daily. All tiers carry a $10 activation fee and a six-month minimum commitment. Prices are as published on the park page on October 23, 2026 and can change.
How much are jump passes at Altitude Trampoline Park Arlington?
Walk-in passes are $19.99 for 90 minutes and $24.99 for 120 minutes, which works out to $13.33 and $12.50 per hour respectively. The Junior Jumpers Jam session for children aged 6 and under runs Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 13:00 at $11.99. Socks and waivers are handled at the park.
Is a former retail store a good building for a trampoline park?
It can be. The box size, parking and utilities usually fit, and a dark second-generation space gives the landlord a reason to contribute to the build-out. The verifications that decide the deal are clear height, floor loading, fire separation and egress capacity for assembly use, plus HVAC. The TDLR record for Arlington shows partial demolition of structural walls, which is a normal cost in these conversions but one that belongs in your budget from day one.
Sources
- Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, “Project Details: TABS2026013038, Altitude Trampoline Park, Pioneer Plaza, 2216 S. Fielder Rd., Arlington, TX”, registration date February 19, 2026 (accessed October 23, 2026) — https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/TABS/Projects/TABS2026013038
- Altitude Trampoline Park, “Altitude Arlington” location and attractions pages, 2216 South Fielder Road, accessed October 23, 2026 — https://www.altitudetrampolinepark.com/locations/texas/arlington/2216-south-fielder-road/
- Altitude Trampoline Park, “Become a Member at Altitude Trampoline Park Today”, Arlington memberships page, accessed October 23, 2026 — https://www.altitudetrampolinepark.com/locations/texas/arlington/2216-south-fielder-road/memberships
- AllEvents, “Altitude Arlington Grand Opening Weekend”, event listing for October 23–25, 2026 (accessed October 23, 2026) — https://allevents.in/arlington/altitude-arlington-grand-opening-weekend-tickets/80001272027852
- International Franchise Association, “Altitude Trampoline Park Continues Momentum in Q4 with Signing Surge and New Openings Across the U.S.”, December 3, 2025 — https://www.franchise.org/2025/12/altitude-trampoline-park-continues-momentum-in-q4-with-signing-surge-and-new-openings-across-the-u-s/
- InterGame, “Altitude Trampoline Park secures new franchise signings”, December 2025 — https://www.intergameonline.com/coin-op/news/altitude-trampoline-park-secures-new-franchise-signings
- Sussex Express, “Inside Crawley’s newest attraction featuring 40 trampolines and interactive games”, October 16, 2026 — http://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/business/consumer/inside-crawleys-newest-attraction-featuring-40-trampolines-and-interactive-games-9292749
- CBRE, “U.S. Retail Figures Q2 2026”, July 29, 2026 — https://www.cbre.com/insights/figures/q2-2026-us-retail-figures
- DuWest Realty, “Pioneer Plaza leasing flier”, 2208–2212 S Fielder Rd, Arlington, Texas, 2019 — https://duwestrealty.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Pioneer-Plaza-Flier.pdf
- PRWeb, “Arlington, Texas is the Newest Landing Spot for Altitude Trampoline Park”, January 9, 2018 (historical context) — https://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/01/prweb15071352.htm