Trampoline Park Refurbishment: Three Parks Show the Cycle
A trampoline park in Turlock, California, is preparing to more than double its size and add a miniature town where children can play at shopping, firefighting and car repair. The operator, Get Air, announced the project on 1 October 2025 and set the debut for spring 2026.
In Singapore, Amped Trampoline Park closed its Raeburn Park venue after 30 August 2026 and reopened on 12 October 2026 at Roxy Square on East Coast Road. The move is a full relocation with a new fitout and a higher list price than the old site charged.
In Geelong, Australia, BOUNCE has unveiled a completely refurbished venue: a new zone for children aged five and under, a seven-trampoline high performance area, a sixteen-trampoline dodgeball arena with interactive wall targets, and two refreshed big airbags.
Three operators on three continents, and not one of these projects is the grand opening of a brand-new box. All three put money into venues that already existed — an expansion, a relocation and a refurbishment.
Read together, they point in one direction: in the markets where trampoline parks first spread, growth capital is starting to flow into the installed base, not only into new sites. This article treats the three moves as signals rather than proof, and ends with what equipment buyers should ask suppliers for if the pattern holds.
1. Three Projects, Three Countries, One Direction
A trend claim needs at least three independent signals: different brands, different regions, different sources. One company opening one venue is news. One company opening one venue and being reposted by three outlets is still one signal. The three projects below share none of their operators, none of their markets and none of their original sources, which is why they can be read together.
| Project | Market | Type of investment | Date anchor | Primary source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Get Air Turlock expansion | United States | In-situ expansion, more than double the footprint | Announced 1 Oct 2025; debut set for spring 2026 | Company press release (EINPresswire) |
| Amped Trampoline Park relocation | Singapore | Full relocation and new fitout | Closed after 30 Aug 2026; reopened 12 Oct 2026 | Operator announcement and local listings |
| BOUNCE Geelong refurbishment | Australia | Complete venue refurbishment | Announced on official venue page, live as of 23 Oct 2026 | Operator announcement |
Scale context makes the first signal more meaningful. Get Air describes itself as a brand with more than 70 locations across the United States and Canada, and the investment bank Houlihan Lokey, which advised the company when it bought out select minority investors, calls it the largest owner-operator of trampoline parks in the United States with nearly 5 million visitors per year. Spread across more than 70 parks, that is roughly 70,000 visits per park per year (derived from the published figures, not released by the operator). A chain of that size choosing to rebuild an existing park, rather than simply open park number 71, is a deliberate allocation of capital.
It is worth being precise about what these three events are not. None of the operators published a budget. None published attendance targets. None described the project as part of a named refurbishment programme. The signal is in what they spent money on, not in what they said about it.
2. What Each Project Actually Changed
2.1 Get Air Turlock: more floor and more pretend play
What changed The Turlock park will more than double in size. The centrepiece is Get Air Town, a miniature town for pretend play with a fire station, a grocery store and an auto repair shop, alongside a large playground filled with slides, bridges, climbing structures, ball pits and obstacle features. These additions join the existing wall-to-wall trampolines, dodgeball courts and a dedicated area for children under 46 inches (about 117 cm) tall.
What it decides A chain built on wall-to-wall trampolines is spending its expansion capital on role-play structures for younger children. That choice says something about where the chain believes incremental visits come from: families with a wider age spread, not only teenagers on trampolines.
What to verify The debut window is spring 2026 as announced in October 2025. Whether it opened on schedule, and whether more Get Air parks follow, is the single most checkable test of the pattern described in this article. See how a park project moves from announcement to opening for the stages in between.
2.2 Amped: same brand, new box, higher price
What changed Amped, which describes itself as the first indoor trampoline park in Singapore, left its Raeburn Park address after 30 August 2026 and reopened on 12 October 2026 at Roxy Square, 50 East Coast Road, in Katong. The old site offered 27 interconnected trampolines, a slam dunk zone, a ninja warrior zone, a BlazeX interactive wall game, foam pits and the AIRena air court, listed by a third-party guide at S$15 per hour on weekdays and S$18 on weekends. The new site lists general admission from S$19.90 per hour.
What it decides Derived from those published prices, the new list price sits about 11 percent above the old weekend rate and about 33 percent above the old weekday rate. A relocation is the one moment when an operator can reset pricing without an existing price anchor. That is worth noticing, because it turns a real-estate move into a revenue-model event.
What to verify The operator has not published the reason for the move, the size of the new venue, or its party package prices. Treat the price comparison as indicative: the two figures come from different sources, taken at different times.
2.3 BOUNCE Geelong: a zone-by-zone rebuild
What changed BOUNCE Geelong reopened after what the company calls a complete refurbishment. The additions are specific: a miniBOUNCE zone for walkers aged five and under (children under 110 cm), a high performance area with seven trampolines plus new vaults, blocks and tiered walls, a dodgeball arena that BOUNCE describes as an Australian first, built on 16 connected trampolines with interactive wall targets, a new high ropes course launching from the wall climb, an updated cliff jump, two refreshed big airbags and upgraded basketball rings. The venue keeps its existing 50 interconnected trampolines. Air-conditioning works were still in progress when the page went live.
What it decides This is the clearest worked example of the refurbishment menu in this article: one new zone for the youngest visitors, one competitive arena with interactive targets, refreshed landing surfaces, upgraded sports equipment and building services work, all applied to a venue that already trades.
What to verify BOUNCE has not published the reopening date, the closure duration or the project budget. A third-party family-attractions listing in Victoria independently describes the venue as fully refurbished and lists party packages from about A$25 per child, which corroborates that the venue is trading, but not the dates or costs.
3. Why Owners Put Money Into Parks They Already Have
The first reason is the age of the installed base. Get Air was founded in 2010, according to its corporate history as described by Houlihan Lokey. A park fitted out in the early years of a chain is now well past the point where beds, padding and content feel current. Replacing them is not optional forever; it is a scheduled cost that arrives whether or not the owner has planned for it.
The second reason is building supply. Earlier coverage on this site described how dead department-store anchors in the United States, Canada and Saudi Arabia are being converted into active-entertainment venues, because large second-generation retail boxes are available at terms that purpose-built land cannot match. An existing park in a good catchment sits inside the same logic from the other side: when the box and the catchment are still right, rebuilding in place beats relocating. The expansion at Turlock and the zone rebuild at Geelong both assume the current building is worth keeping, which the mall-conversion wave makes easier to accept.
The third reason is pricing. Relocation and refurbishment both reset the customer’s reference point. As shown above, Amped’s new list price sits well above what the old site charged. An operator who invests in a visibly new fitout gains a defensible reason to charge more; an operator who renovates nothing gradually competes on price alone.
The fourth reason is the least discussed: multi-site operators consolidate ownership before they renovate. The Houlihan Lokey transaction page frames Get Air’s buyout of minority investors as positioning the company for significant expansion and new location development. Consolidation matters here for a simple mechanical reason: an owner-operator with full control of a venue can approve a refurbishment in one board meeting, while a venue with outside investors in its individual parks cannot easily raise the same capital.
What no source provides is money. None of the three projects has a published budget, and this article will not invent one. The honest way to think about the economics is a formula, not a figure: total project cost equals equipment and installation, plus design and compliance costs, plus the revenue lost while zones are closed. Each variable is project-specific, and the rent context that shapes the last variable is covered in an earlier analysis of what retail rent per square foot demands in daily admissions.
4. The Refurbishment Menu: What Gets Added First
Lay the three projects side by side and the same items keep appearing. That repetition, across three brands that do not share suppliers or markets, is the practical content of this trend.
| Refurbishment move | Seen in | What it involves |
|---|---|---|
| Add an early-childhood zone | All three projects | Get Air Town role-play structures for pretend shopping and firefighting; the miniBOUNCE zone for walkers to age five; Get Air’s existing under-46-inch area |
| Add competitive play with interactive targets | BOUNCE Geelong; Amped old and new site | A 16-trampoline dodgeball arena with interactive wall targets; the BlazeX interactive wall and AIRena air court carried into the new Singapore site |
| Refresh landing surfaces | BOUNCE Geelong | Two refreshed big airbags and an updated cliff jump on an existing 50-trampoline base |
| Upgrade skill and sports equipment | BOUNCE Geelong | Seven-trampoline high performance area with vaults, blocks and tiered walls; upgraded basketball rings |
| Fix the building itself | BOUNCE Geelong | Air-conditioning upgrade still in progress after reopening |
| Reset the price list | Amped Singapore | New general admission from S$19.90 per hour against S$15–18 at the old site |
Two items on that menu deserve emphasis. First, the early-childhood zone appeared in all three projects, in three different forms: a role-play town, a toddler trampoline zone and a soft-play-adjacent area. Equipment for that cohort spans indoor playground structures as much as trampolines, and it is the category most often left out of a first-fit budget. Second, interactive targets have moved from optional upgrade to default specification, a shift tracked earlier in the rise of interactive attractions to baseline status; BOUNCE specifying them inside a dodgeball arena, rather than as a standalone game, shows the same equipment being absorbed into core zones.
The landing surfaces matter more than their position at the bottom of the press releases suggests. Airbags and foam pits take repeated impact and degrade in visible ways, and their condition is one of the few things a prospective buyer can audit with their own eyes. Material choices for padding and bed surfaces are compared in detail on our materials quality page.
5. What the Projects Do Not Tell You
The gaps are as consistent as the overlaps, and listing them is the fastest way to keep this analysis honest.
No budget has been published for any of the three projects. Get Air did not release the current or future floor area of the Turlock park, only the claim that it will more than double. BOUNCE has not published a reopening date, a closure duration or a cost, and its air-conditioning works were still running after the venue reopened. Amped has not explained why it left Raeburn Park, has not published the new venue’s size, and does not list party package prices for the new site.
Closure cost is the variable most often missed by first-time buyers. In prose: the revenue lost during a refurbishment equals the average daily revenue multiplied by the number of closed days, and the closed days depend on how much of the work can be phased around trading hours. BOUNCE’s case suggests partial phasing is realistic, since the venue reopened while air-conditioning works continued. Get Air’s case, an expansion that more than doubles the footprint, implies a construction site adjacent to live trading for months. Those two models carry very different closure costs even with identical equipment lists.
One more number can be extracted honestly. BOUNCE Geelong added three new zones and one new course, refreshed two landing features and upgraded its basketball rings on a base of 50 interconnected trampolines. That ratio — roughly one significant new or refreshed attraction element per ten existing trampolines — is a single data point, not an industry rule, and it is presented here as a reference for asking suppliers better questions, not as a budget line.
6. What Would Prove This Wrong
A trend claim earns its keep by stating, in advance, what evidence would kill it. Five things would.
First, if chain capital keeps going to new units. Get Air itself is opening a new park in Washington State, planned for spring 2026, and its own advisors describe its focus as significant expansion and new location development. If Turlock stays the only major renovation in a 70-park chain for the next two years, the refurbishment reading collapses into a one-off.
Second, if BOUNCE Geelong stays alone. One venue page is one data point. If the rest of the chain’s Australian venues go unrefreshed for years, Geelong is catch-up maintenance at a single site, not a cycle.
Third, if Amped’s move was forced. A lease ending at Raeburn Park could compel any operator to relocate, and the operator has not published its reason. Without further relocations that end in price resets, the pricing argument in section 3 has one supporting case.
Fourth, if no revenue effect becomes visible. None of the three operators has published attendance or revenue data before or after the work. If refurbished parks show no measurable lift, operators will stop funding refurbishments, and this article will have described a coincidence.
Fifth, if the equipment trade does not respond. Supplier catalogues are a lagging but readable indicator: if manufacturers start publishing refurbishment packages, spare-part programmes and upgrade paths as standard products, the cycle is real. If catalogues keep selling only full fits, it is not. Readers can check this themselves without trusting this article.
7. If This Holds: Buying Equipment for the Second Fitting
For someone building a park in 2026 or 2027, the useful response is not to predict the trend but to keep the 2029 option open. Four practices do that.
1. Buy the structure with the second fitting in mind. Steel platforms, mezzanines and anchor points cost little extra when designed in from the start and cost disproportionately more to retrofit. BOUNCE added a high ropes course to an existing building; that was only possible because the structure could take it. Before any vertical attraction is added in a refurbishment, floor loading and clear height need verification against the building’s actual documentation, and the zone-mix arithmetic behind that check is set out in our 22,000 sq ft (about 2,040 m²) layout breakdown.
2. Specify replaceable wear surfaces, not monolithic ones. Trampoline beds, padding and airbag bladders are consumables. Choosing beds and padding that a local crew can swap, with material specifications documented per batch, shortens the eventual refresh. The certification and testing questions behind those specifications belong on the safety standards checklist.
3. Write the upgrade path into the supply contract. A refurbishment cycle is easier to fund when the original supplier contract already defines what a year-three or year-five refresh includes, at what price basis, and with what lead times. Operators who leave this to a future negotiation buy the same equipment twice at two prices. When you are ready to discuss a layout that supports phased upgrades, you can request a design and quotation with the second fitting stated up front.
4. Reserve the first refurbishment for the zones these three projects agree on. If a box has neither an early-childhood zone nor any interactive layer, the three cases here suggest that is where owners spend first. Both categories are standard trampoline park equipment lines and do not require a full rebuild to install.
Five questions separate a supplier who can support a refurbishment cycle from one who only sells first fits: Can bed and pad replacements be ordered by part number years later? Are structural drawings archived so new zones can attach to the original steel? Is there a phased-installation plan that keeps part of the park trading? What is the stated lead time for airbag and foam replacement? Does the warranty survive a renovation performed by others? Written answers to those five questions are worth more than any catalogue.
8. Summary
Three operators in three countries recently spent money on parks that already existed: Get Air is more than doubling its Turlock venue and adding a role-play town for young children, Amped rebuilt its offer across town in Singapore and reset its prices upward, and BOUNCE reopened Geelong with a rebuilt zone mix on its original trampoline base. Each move is individually ordinary. The direction they share — capital flowing into the installed base of a maturing category — is the signal, and the five tests in section 6 will show within a year or two whether it holds.
For equipment buyers, the practical takeaway does not depend on the trend being true. Designing the first fit so that a second one is cheap, contracting the upgrade path in advance, and prioritising the zones all three projects chose are sound decisions even if the refurbishment wave never widens. And if it does widen, parks built with those choices will be the first in line for it.
Three things worth doing this month: audit which of your zones would be first on the refurbishment menu above; ask your current supplier the five questions in section 7 and record the answers; and file the dates of the three projects in this article, because Turlock’s spring 2026 debut is the nearest checkable test.
FAQ
How often does a trampoline park need refurbishing?
No published standard sets an interval, and the three projects in this article do not establish one either. Wear items such as trampoline beds, padding and airbag bladders follow usage, not the calendar, so condition audits matter more than anniversaries. What the cases do show is that content novelty is managed separately from safety wear: BOUNCE added entirely new zones while also refreshing existing landing surfaces in the same project.
How much does a trampoline park refurbishment cost?
None of the three operators published a budget, so any figure quoted online should be treated with caution. The honest model is a formula: equipment and installation, plus design and compliance costs, plus the revenue lost while zones are closed. The closure term is the variable owners most often underestimate, and it depends on how much of the work can be phased around trading hours.
Can a trampoline park stay open during renovation?
Partially, in some cases. BOUNCE Geelong reopened while its air-conditioning upgrade was still in progress, which shows backend works can trail trading. Expansion works that open new floor, as at Turlock, still put construction traffic next to live zones, so phasing plans, hoarding routes and dust separation need to be designed before the contract is signed, not improvised afterwards.
What attractions do parks add first when they renovate?
Across the three projects here, the earliest additions were an early-childhood zone (a role-play town, a toddler trampoline zone) and competitive play with interactive targets (a dodgeball arena with interactive wall targets). Refreshed airbags and upgraded sports elements followed. A box that lacks both an under-five offer and any interactive layer is the clearest candidate for that sequence.
Is it better to refurbish an existing park or relocate?
It depends on four verifiable facts: the remaining lease term, the building’s structural capacity for new loads, the strength of the current catchment, and the rent available at alternative boxes. Amped chose relocation and gained a pricing reset; BOUNCE and Get Air chose to reinvest in place. A decision rule rather than a universal answer: if the building cannot take the zones the refurbishment menu calls for, the refurbishment conversation is already over.
Sources
- Get Air Trampoline Park via EINPresswire / North America Today, “Get Air Trampoline Park Announces Major Expansion in Turlock with Exciting New Features Coming Spring 2026”, 1 October 2025 — northamericatoday.com
- Amusements & Attractions (InterGame), “Californian trampoline park set for expansion”, 6 October 2025 — amusementsandattractions.com
- Amusements & Attractions (InterGame), “Get Air unveils plans for Washington, US” (Washington venue, spring 2026) — amusementsandattractions.com
- Houlihan Lokey, “Houlihan Lokey Advises Get Air” (transaction page, undated; accessed 23 October 2026) — hl.com
- Amped Trampoline Park, official site notice: “AMPED @ Raeburn Park will officially close after 30th August 2026” — ampedsingapore.com
- HoneyKids Asia, “New in October 2026: The latest openings and new things to do with the kids in Singapore”, October 2026 (Amped reopened 12 October 2026 at Roxy Square, from S$19.90) — honeykidsasia.com
- Sunny City Kids, “66 Best Indoor Playgrounds in Singapore” (Amped Raeburn Park zones and S$15–18 pricing, accessed October 2026) — sunnycitykids.com
- BOUNCE Inc, “BOUNCE Geelong Has Levelled Up!” (official venue page; accessed 23 October 2026) — bounceinc.com.au
- Family Action, “BOUNCE Geelong in Grovedale, Victoria” (independent listing, accessed October 2026) — familyaction.au