Trampoline Park in a Former Cinema: JumpYard Frankfurt Plan
On 26 October 2026, the Swedish operator JumpYard announced its second German park: a roughly 4,000 m² (43,056 sq ft) indoor activity centre inside a former cinema at Mainzer Landstraße 681, in the Frankfurt-Griesheim district. The company plans to open before the end of 2026. The site will become the thirtieth JumpYard park in Europe.
The announcement matters to operators and investors for a reason that goes beyond one company’s expansion. A decommissioned cinema is a distinct class of building for active entertainment: column-free halls, tall clear spaces, purpose-built air handling, on-site parking and transit at the door. JumpYard is now the latest operator to put a trampoline park into one, and its press release states the point plainly: the size and character of the former cinema give the company the chance to combine a broad mix of activities for different ages.
This article unpacks what the announcement confirms, what the building class offers a converter, how the attraction count and the pricing model line up against the operator’s own published numbers, and which checks a cinema conversion candidate must pass before a deposit changes hands.
One boundary note before the detail: JumpYard has not published a fit-out budget, an opening date, a floor plan or Frankfurt ticket prices. Where a figure below is derived rather than released, the text says so.
1. What the Announcement Confirms
The press release, distributed through Cision on 26 October 2026, is a first-party statement from the operator, and the company’s official Frankfurt park page is already live with the attraction list. Between the two sources, the confirmed facts are these:
| Item | Confirmed detail | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Mainzer Landstraße 681, Frankfurt-Griesheim | Press release, 26 Oct 2026 |
| Park size | Approximately 4,000 m² (43,056 sq ft) | Press release |
| Former use | Cinema (operator not named in the release) | Press release |
| Opening window | Before the end of 2026; the park page says “this autumn” | Press release and park page |
| Park number | Second in Germany, 30th in Europe | Press release |
| Attractions | Trampolines, climbing, slides, SkyRider, interactive play, Jumpy toddler area | Press release |
| New concepts | “Activity concepts that are new to JumpYard” to debut in Frankfurt | Press release |
| Group products | Party, school, club and corporate packages; food and seating areas | Press release |
Two details in that table carry more weight than they first appear to. First, the phrase “new to JumpYard”: the release commits Frankfurt to concepts the chain has not run elsewhere, which usually means the fit-out will diverge from the standard kit. Second, the corporate-events line. School, club and corporate packages are contract revenue with predictable calendars, and they sit naturally in a weekday trough that walk-in traffic does not fill.
Why this is a usable news hook: the announcement is verifiable (a dated first-party release plus a live official page), it is recent (26 October 2026), and it converts into a concrete purchasing question: what does a dark cinema box let an active-entertainment operator do that a standard retail unit does not?
2. Why a Cinema Box Suits an Active Park
The building itself is identifiable. German cinema directories list a CineStar-branded cinema at Mainzer Landstraße 681 in the 65933 Frankfurt postal code, with free parking directly at the building and a tram stop immediately outside. The JumpYard release does not name the former operator, and we have not verified the exact closure date, so treat the directory listings as background rather than as part of the announcement.
What the class of building offers, in general terms, is well understood in the fit-out trade:
What it is Multiplex auditoria are large, effectively column-free volumes, because a column in a sightline to the screen is a design failure. Several halls sit side by side under one roof, often 2,000 m² or more in total, which is why operators keep selecting them.
What it decides Column-free floor plates allow the trampoline grid, the ninja course and the slide tower to be laid out for sightlines and supervision rather than around structure. Tall volumes accommodate the vertical elements (slide towers, rope courses, climbing walls) that decide whether a park can sell a full-day ticket or only a 60-minute bounce.
What to verify The three traits that make a cinema attractive, namely height, span and air handling, are exactly the three things a buyer must measure and not assume. Projection-side clear height differs from auditorium clear height; the raked or stepped floor of a stadium auditorium has to be infilled or terraced; and the air-handling capacity that served a packed auditorium still needs recommissioning for a jumping floor, where occupants arrive sweaty rather than seated. See the compliance checks we run before any equipment ships against a safety standard.
The Frankfurt project is not a brand-new idea but a commitment finally dated. The trade press reported JumpYard’s German entry plans well before Nuremberg opened, describing the Frankfurt venue as a former cinema of roughly 3,800 m² to be converted into an adventure park with trampolines, climbing walls and interactive challenges. The October release sizes the park at approximately 4,000 m², a small revision from the earlier plan figure; we cite both because the current first-party number governs.
Cinema conversions sit in the same adaptive-reuse family as the gym conversion in Crawley and the anchor-box conversions covered earlier on this site. The economics rhyme: the shell is cheaper per square foot than a purpose-built hall, but the conversion scope is building-specific, and the budget risk lives in the parts of the building the brochure photo does not show — the rake under the floor, the roof leaks, the exit distribution. We set out that trade in detail for a former Macy’s box converted to an indoor theme park, and the same logic applies here.
3. The Attraction Stack: 13 Types in 4,000 m²
The official Frankfurt page names its attractions, and the list is the most concrete configuration data published so far. Counted as named attraction types, the page lists thirteen:
| Attraction type | What it is | Audience it serves |
|---|---|---|
| Tumbling trampolines | Linked trampoline beds for tricks | Teens and adults |
| Valo Jump TV | Interactive trampoline gaming | All ages |
| SkyRider | Suspended aerial ride | Teens and adults |
| High rope course (no harness) | Elevated balance course | All ages |
| Strike Arena | Interactive target game | Groups and parties |
| Slide tower (tube, drop, wave) | Three slide types off one tower | All ages |
| Inflatables | Large soft obstacles | Children and families |
| Climbing walls | Vertical climbing challenges | All ages |
| Bounce course | Obstacle course at bounce height | All ages |
| Pixel Play | Reaction and coordination game | All ages |
| Interactive games | Physical challenge stations | Teens and adults |
| Bumper cars | Electric dodgems | All ages |
| Jumpy Land | Enclosed toddler play area | Under-6s with carers |
Thirteen named types across 4,000 m² works out to roughly 308 m² (3,312 sq ft) per attraction type, derived from the published list rather than released by the operator. The figure is a planning yardstick, not a floor plan: some types share a zone, and circulation, party rooms, café and back-of-house consume a large share of any 4,000 m² box.
The comparison that matters is against the other recent opening in this coverage. Big Air Bolingbrook, which opened in Illinois on 24 October 2026, listed 16 attractions in a 26,000 sq ft park — about 1,625 sq ft per attraction, as we worked through in our Big Air Bolingbrook breakdown. JumpYard Frankfurt, at roughly 43,056 sq ft with 13 named types, is buying the opposite trade: fewer, larger zones with more height per zone, in a building that can take the vertical elements. Neither figure implies which model earns more; they imply different session lengths and different party capacity.
Also note what the list does not include: a foam pit is absent from the named attractions, and dodgeball is not mentioned by name. The interactive layer, by contrast, appears three separate times (Valo Jump TV, Pixel Play, Strike Arena). That matches the pattern we documented when interactive attractions became the baseline across operators in the UK, the US and Spain — a supplier quoting against this project would be expected to price that layer in from the start.
4. The Pricing Model Frankfurt Will Likely Inherit
Frankfurt prices are not published. The operator’s Nuremberg park, opened in April 2026, is therefore the best available reference, because it is the same brand, the same country and the newest template. Its official booking page lists “from” prices for three session lengths and states that prices vary by day and time:
| Session length | Listed price (from) | Price per hour | Step cost for the extra 30 minutes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60 minutes | €16.00 | €16.00 | None |
| 90 minutes | €20.00 | €13.33 | €4.00 |
| 120 minutes | €23.00 | €11.50 | €3.00 |
Read the last two columns together. The second half hour costs €4. The third costs €3. In other words, the marginal price of additional bounce time falls as the session lengthens, and the per-hour cost of the longest session runs 28% below the shortest. This is the same shape we found at Oxygen Crawley and Altitude Arlington: the first hour carries the fixed cost of entry, and every additional half hour is priced near the cost of the floor time it occupies.
For an operator, two implications follow from the operator’s own published numbers:
First, the family ticket is a discount instrument, not an afterthought. Nuremberg sells four admissions for the price of three, from €51, which works out to €12.75 per person — 20% below the €16 entry rate. A 4,000 m² park with a toddler zone lives or dies on multi-child families, and the pricing page prices them in explicitly.
Second, dynamic pricing is already the brand standard. The Nuremberg page says openly that prices vary by day and time and that visitors pay less at quieter times. A Frankfurt operator quoting flat weekend prices would be pricing against its own sister park. When you build your rate card, the honest benchmark is the ladder above, and the honest question is which troughs in your week need a price, not a promotion.
The general formula that governs whether any of this covers the box:
Admissions needed per month ≈ (rent + labor + energy + debt service) ÷ average net ticket Average net ticket ≈ blended session price − discounts − payment fees
We deliberately do not publish a revenue forecast for the Frankfurt park. The operator has released no visit, spend or capacity figures, and any number we invented would be worse than none.
5. What the Cadence Says About the Operator
JumpYard was founded in Sweden in 2017. With Frankfurt, the company will operate 30 parks across Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Portugal and Germany, wholly owned rather than franchised, with around 1,000 employees. Three derived figures put that record in perspective:
- Roughly 3.3 park openings per year over nine years, derived from 30 parks since founding.
- About 34 employees per open park, derived by dividing the stated headcount by the stated park count.
- Two German parks within roughly eight months of each other: Nuremberg opened in April 2026, and Frankfurt is planned before the end of 2026.
The wholly owned structure is the detail a supplier or landlord should register. A franchise group signs leases one market at a time; an owner-operator running 30 parks on its own balance sheet signs with a portfolio view, which usually means longer negotiations up front and more standardisation across sites once the first build is done. The job postings for the Frankfurt site — Yarder floor staff and Team Leaders — are already live on the company’s career portal, which indicates hiring has started while the fit-out is still under way, consistent with an opening inside the stated window.
The operator’s own financial guidance, reported by InterGame in early 2026, adds a number set that few park announcements include. For the first two months of 2026 JumpYard recorded total revenues of SEK 91.6 million, up 13% year on year, with adjusted EBITDA of SEK 21.7 million, up 45%. The company guided to roughly SEK 540 million of revenue for 2026 at an adjusted EBITDA margin of about 20%, and expected the three new sites opening that year (Getafe in Spain, Nuremberg and Frankfurt) to contribute run-rate site EBITDA of SEK 40–50 million. Divided across three sites, that guidance band implies roughly SEK 13–17 million of annual site EBITDA per new park, a derived figure that shows what the operator itself expects a new 3,500–4,000 m² box to earn once stabilised. It is guidance, not results, and we label it as such.
One sequencing detail is worth registering: the original German plan named Hamburg as the second park, at 4,700 m² billed as the largest in the chain, targeted for summer 2026. The October release confirms Frankfurt, not Hamburg, as the second German park. The Hamburg project has not been cancelled in any statement we can find, but its opening has clearly slipped behind Frankfurt’s, which is a normal outcome in fit-out projects and a useful reminder that announced opening windows move.
Germany is also a market where a 4,000 m² leased box in a district centre, with a tram stop at the door and free parking, solves the two access questions that decide weekend capacity. Our earlier look at how many parking spaces a trampoline park actually needs showed local codes demanding anything from 90 to 375 spaces for the same 30,000 sq ft box; a building that already has its own lot removes that negotiation entirely.
6. What Has Not Been Published
Four gaps matter to anyone modelling this project, and we will not paper over them:
Fit-out cost. No figure has been released. The conversion cost of a cinema box depends on the floor rake, the exit re-mapping and the services condition, and it cannot be inferred from the announcement. If you want the arithmetic frame, our investment-cost breakdown sets out the four-block structure that any fit-out budget, cinema or otherwise, has to fill in.
Opening date. The release says before the end of 2026; the park page says this autumn. Neither names a day. Given that the announcement landed on 26 October, the stated window leaves weeks, not months.
Frankfurt ticket prices. Not published. The Nuremberg ladder in section 4 is a reference, not a confirmation, and the release promises launch offers to be announced ahead of opening.
The former cinema’s closure history. The release calls the building a former cinema without naming the operator or the closure date. The CineStar directory listings identify the address, but a precise timeline would need a source neither the operator nor the directories provide. We flag the gap rather than filling it with a guess.
This is the honest read: a confirmed address, size, brand intent and window, and four unknowns that only the operator’s next release can close.
7. The Checks a Cinema Conversion Must Pass
For readers weighing their own dark-cinema or dark-retail candidate, the announcement is a reminder that the building class is proven but not forgiving. Six checks separate a fast conversion from a stalled one:
1. Clear height, measured at the lowest obstruction. Slide towers, rope courses and climbing walls stack vertically, and the height that matters is the clear dimension under the lowest beam or duct run, not the peak. Measure it before the layout is drawn, because it decides which attractions the box can take at all.
2. The floor rake. Stadium auditoria are stepped or raked slabs. The infill or terracing scope is a conversion-specific cost line that a flat-floor retail fit-out never carries, and it is the most common budget surprise in this class.
3. Egress distribution. A cinema already has assembly-occupancy exits, but they were distributed for rows of seats, not for zones, nets and party rooms. The exit map has to be redrawn against the new floor plan and agreed with the local authority.
4. Floor loading and vibration. Trampoline structures and slide towers impose loads and dynamic effects that a cinema slab was not necessarily detailed for. A structural check precedes any equipment order; the documentation a supplier must provide for that check is set out in our eight-document supplier audit.
5. Air handling. Cinema plant was sized for seated occupancy at high density; a jumping floor adds heat and moisture at a different profile. Recommissioning scope belongs in the budget from day one.
6. Materials and fire performance. Padding, nets and soft-play elements must meet the fire class the jurisdiction requires, with certificates to match, which is why our materials and quality controls start at the resin and fabric stage rather than at the finished part.
None of these checks is unique to Germany, and none is optional. A park that skips them pays later in approvals delays, which are the most expensive weeks in the project — a point we quantified in our carry-cost analysis of a 100-day opening slip.
8. Summary and Three Things You Can Do Today
JumpYard’s Frankfurt announcement, dated 26 October 2026, confirms a 4,000 m² (43,056 sq ft) trampoline and activity park inside a former cinema at Mainzer Landstraße 681, opening before the end of 2026 as the operator’s thirtieth European park and second in Germany. The official page lists thirteen named attraction types with a heavy interactive layer and a toddler zone; the sister park in Nuremberg shows the pricing template: €16, €20 and €23 for 60, 90 and 120 minutes, falling marginal step costs, a 20% family discount and day-and-time dynamic pricing. The fit-out cost, opening date, Frankfurt prices and the building’s closure history remain unpublished.
1. Map your own dark-box candidates against the cinema class. List the vacated cinemas and anchor units in your target market, and score each on the six checks in section 7 before you look at rent. Two boxes at the same rent are not the same project; the rake and the exit map decide that. For the layout side, our 22,000 sq ft layout breakdown shows how a zone plan responds to the box it sits in. If you want a same-size reference plan for your candidate box, send us the address and dimensions and we will return a zone layout with a quote.
2. Build your rate card on the ladder, not on a single price. Publish 60, 90 and 120-minute tiers with falling marginal steps, price the family explicitly, and vary by daypart from launch. The Nuremberg table above is the template the brand itself chose.
3. Shortlist the equipment before the lease is signed. Height, floor and egress determine which attractions fit; ordering a slide tower into a box that cannot take its height is the classic conversion failure. Start from the design-to-delivery process so the building checks and the equipment order move on the same calendar.
FAQ
Can a former cinema be converted into a trampoline park?
Yes, and it is a proven conversion class. Multiplex auditoria offer column-free volumes, tall spaces, high-capacity air handling and dedicated parking, which suit trampoline grids and vertical attractions. The conversion-specific risks are the raked auditorium floor, egress re-mapping for the new zone plan and structural verification of floor loading — each needs a measured answer before equipment is ordered.
How big is the new JumpYard Frankfurt park?
The operator announced approximately 4,000 m², which is about 43,056 sq ft, inside a former cinema at Mainzer Landstraße 681 in the Frankfurt-Griesheim district. It will be JumpYard’s second German park after Nuremberg and the thirtieth in Europe, with opening planned before the end of 2026.
How much does it cost to convert a cinema into a trampoline park?
No public figure exists for the Frankfurt project, and honest operators do not publish one until the building survey is done. The budget frame is: shell and landlord works, plus zone equipment, plus MEP recommissioning, plus the conversion-specific lines (floor rake infill, exit re-mapping, structural reinforcement). A per-square-foot estimate is only meaningful after the six building checks in this article have been measured on your specific box.
What will JumpYard Frankfurt cost to visit?
Prices are not yet published. The operator’s Nuremberg park, the newest German reference, lists 60 minutes from €16, 90 minutes from €20 and 120 minutes from €23, with prices varying by day and time, a family ticket of four for the price of three from €51 and an automatic group discount from ten people. Frankfurt launch offers are to be announced ahead of opening.
How many JumpYard parks are there in Europe?
With the Frankfurt opening, 30: parks across Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Portugal and Germany, all wholly owned by the company, which was founded in Sweden in 2017 and reports around 1,000 employees. Nuremberg opened in April 2026 and Frankfurt is planned before the end of 2026.
Sources
- JumpYard Concepts AB newsroom (Cision), press release “JumpYard to open 4,000 m² indoor activity park in Frankfurt”, 26 October 2026 — news.cision.com/jumpyard-concepts-ab
- JumpYard official Frankfurt park page, attractions and opening window, accessed 27 October 2026 — jumpyard.de/frankfurt
- JumpYard Nuremberg official entry and pricing page, ticket prices and dynamic pricing statement, accessed 27 October 2026 — jumpyard.de/nuernberg/eintritt
- Amusements & Attractions (InterGame), “European trampoline park reports strong start to the year”, JumpYard revenue and EBITDA guidance for 2026, published early 2026 — amusementsandattractions.com
- Amusements & Attractions (InterGame), “JumpYard plans for German expansion”, earlier plan for the Frankfurt former-cinema venue and the Hamburg site — amusementsandattractions.com
- JumpYard Concepts AB via Cision, “JumpYard launches in Germany with its first park opening in Nuremberg”, Nuremberg park size of approximately 3,500 m² — news.cision.com
- JumpYard career portal, Frankfurt Yarder and Team Leader postings, accessed 27 October 2026 — career.jumpyard.se
- Frankfurt-Tipp, cinema directory listing CineStar at Mainzer Landstraße 681 with parking and tram details, accessed 27 October 2026 — frankfurt-tipp.de
- Big Air USA opening announcement via CityBiz, Big Air Bolingbrook, 24 October 2026 — citybiz.co