City signs off on ‘escape game’ entertainment

The latest example of the “escape game” reality entertainment genre may soon open in Alpharetta.

The Alpharetta City Council on Monday approved an amendment to the Windward Master Plan to add “Recreation Facilities, Indoor” – in this case, a series of “escape rooms” – to the list of permitted uses, allowing an Odyssey Escape Game center to open at 111 Alderman Drive in the office park.

Michael Cook, owner of the Buford-based Odyssey, said in a letter to the city that the facility would host “corporate team-building training activities/services to corporate management teams in the surrounding area, as well as offer our team-building services to the general public during non-business hours, Friday night through Sunday night.” Road, is being rerouted for a road widening, and part of the trail closed last week for that work as well as the installation of new landscaping to provide a buffer between the trail and the road. The project is to be finished in about 90 days. Martin Contractors is doing the $216,155 job, funded by a Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax.

Meanwhile, the Big Creek Greenway where it passes beneath Ga. 400 has been closed since May 31 but is on schedule to reopen Aug. 31. The trail segment is closed while C.W. Matthews, contractor for the Georgia Department of Transportation, adds one lane in each direction of the freeway between McFarland Parkway and Ga. 369.

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