/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>50174494
Just a bit to the left and you can see we are in the heart of downtown Tyler, Texas. Giga money making opportunity here, but nobody seems to give a damn about the Discovery Place.

>>50174531

>>50174494
This is the Discovery Place. As you can see, it's literally nothing but a shitty and small playground for kids.

Open a titty bar.

Problem solved. I mean the business might fail, but surrounded by titties for a few good weeks, who really cares?

>>50174494
>Nice try, discovery place owner
But in all seriousness, just convert the business to a paintball or laser-tag arena. I would go with laser tag, because the startup costs are cheaper and you can attract a broader audience. Pic related.

>>50175335
Oh, liability and cost of cleaning is another reason to go with laser tag, by the way. If you are good with microprocessors, you could even program and make/3dprint your own laser tag equipment for pennies on the dollar.

>>50174494
Start the Discovery Place Church

>>50174572
>shitty
would have made my weekend in the 90s. fucking zoomers.

>>50175441
Sorry, kids hate dinosaurs, adventure, and space exploration now. They just want to be epic fortnite youtubers.

>>50174494
bump

>>50175335
Those are only for funneling drug money lol none of those places would subsist without money laundering.

>>50175441
You're just an easily impressed person then. This is fucking stupid. Look at the pics, it's just one big room with some ship busting through the wall and some poverty Tom Sawyer tunnel. What else is there? A shitty gift shop, a shitty gazebo in the parking lot. Fucking delusional. You probably grew up in a town like Tyler, Texas if you think this is cool, even from a kids perspective.

>>50174494
Revamp the interior and it definitely has potential. Axe some of the cheesier 90s exhibits and add something with high tech, maybe a blockchain section with visual examples of different crypto things and NFTs, in fact you could offer a collectible NFT for visitors and advertise on social media (a targeted social media ad campaign alone could boost revenue)

>>50174494
>Tyler, Texas

turn it into a baptist church / religious center where you teach Christian interpretations of science to kids like the Noahs Ark theme park in kentucky

>tfw have family in Tyler

>>50174494
make it a daycare facility. hire a few experienced women to be managers and a bunch of dumb roasties to wageslave under them for $12/hour (childcare jobs pay jack shit.) you'll be making money hand over fucking fist.

>>50177003
Charge 20 bucks per kid for a 2 hour birthday session, 20 kids show up, 400 bucks in revenue.
Do this at least 5 times a month
2000 in revenue, easily covers $1500 commercial rent.
Lazer "guns" and vests cost $1000 up front to make using a 3d printer, arduinos, and IR lasers/sensors.

It's one of the highest margin, lowest labor, entertainment businesses.

>>50174494
I volunteer here for the STEM for children programs. UT Tyler owns the museum so your family didn't leave you shit.

I used to date a girl from Tyler, it didn’t work out in the end, mostly because of the distance. She was a good girl, very beautiful, natural blonde, sparkling blue eyes and a sweet southern heart. She was perfect… Lacy was a keeper, but I guess I wasn’t the one who was meant to keep her

>>50177185
How would you make it profitable though?

>>50174494
Does said discovery place have a liquor license? If not, is getting one easily accessible?

It being in Tyler is an issue - very few young people moving to the area. My first thought was renovating it into a 90s-themed overpriced cocktail spot, those places absolutely PRINT money. But your location is going to prove to be an issue.

Another point - does this theoretical discovery place owner own the surface parking lot next door? If so - that leads to a huge opportunity. Redevelop both the Discovery place AND surface parking nextdoor into high-end multifamily apartment housing. That is likely your best bet. Tyler looks like it has a nice walkable downtown so you can easily steal remote workers from downtown Dallas or Houston. That would be my best suggestion.

>>50177206
By increasing university tuition. This is literally just a city run park. It's not meant to be profitable.
If it wasn't then I would have sold it to one of the many HVAC/Civil engineering firms that litter Tyler Tx.
They'd likely just use it as an contracted test facility like they do with the TRANE houses on campus.

>>50174572
nah, that atmosphere looks like a place that the parents of a church youth group would organize some dweebs birthday party, but the kids would hate it. plain, boring colors. barely any screens. it needs way more stimulating decorations, modern games (not chuck e cheese 90s arcade shit), moar glow in the dark stuff.

in fact the business should have a veneer of science education so parents feel good taking their kids there, but the kids should have a blast and barely learn anything. maybe way moar focus on decorative posters and science education in the eating/lounge area where parents sit.

>>50174494
Escape room and focus on wagies that want to have a fun event with the whole team.

>>50177307
kek i change my answer to this. lock the doors from the outside so the wagies can't escape the humiliation ritual. and charge their jew boss extra for this feature, of course.

>>50174494
Another idea, there's this thing called an escape room, basically you lock a bunch of millennials in a room and they have to solve puzzles to get out like an incredibly gay G rated saw trap, idk its fucking retarded but millennials seem to love the shit

>>50177050
yea, and?

>>50177140
I've been hearing that daycare is expensive where I live, so maybe consider this suggestion OP.
But of course do some research - ask around and see what parents are paying for daycare currently, or if they can't afford it what would be an acceptable number. Do the numbers to figure out if you can pull clients, and see if you can offer them a better deal
Word of mouth advertising is probably pretty critical, but maybe you can also do something to market to new mothers too; they might be a year away from needing a daycare facility but if yours is the first one that comes to mind that's a good thing

>>50177451
>Word of mouth advertising is probably pretty critical, but maybe you can also do something to market to new mothers too
Sponsor a local rec soccer/baseball league

>>50174494
make a maid cafe that is split between a kids area and adult area

the kids are is like a family diner / daycare with maybe some mcdonalds style playground

the adults area has alcohol, tittys, cheaper food etc. something like a hooters that caters to whatever clientel works in the surrounding buildings

should be a hit

Probably tear it all out and put in a corner store. Or I'd look into the cost to set up as many 3d ride simulators as I could fit in the place.

I figured it out. Take a big gamble and modernize the place. Originally I was going to say update everything to be bigger and better using modern tech. But, now, I wouldn't necessarily say that. For this place to truly give a great experience to kids you need to give them something different. Chase the feeling of unknown, almost like The Backrooms vibe but without the monster element. A calm, but the feeling of the unknown with the layout. Many corridors towards many sections, simple colors, maybe some non-moving animatronics somewhere too. And basically you rework many of the exhibits with this layout and style in mind. Kids love to be scared and have this feeling of the unknown. No amount of fortnite or tablets will change it. An experience they'll never forget.

>>50177605
>Probably tear it all out and put in a corner store.
Wow, most soulless suggestion in the thread.

Actually I have another option: Not a bar-cade, but a topgolf-esque place with "classic" video game bays parties can rent out for 2-3 hours at a time.
>serve beer/cocktails and bar food
>rent out public bays to play N64, xbox/xbox 360, playstation, etc
>large library of nostalgic games
>charge by the hour/for food obviously

Would be a hit. Dont know why these arent more widespread. Would also be huge for corporate parties, especially with tech.

>>50177625
I gave an alternative lol

>>50177605
The Yaw 2 VR might be usable for something like this. My 30 seconds of research showed promise.

>>50177140
high iq move

>>50177687
>>50177140
>

run it per usual except i sell meth out of the back and junkies' kids get in for free w/ purchase

I was gonna say “Gunshop” but then I looked up the two nearby, and they both fuckin slap.
Ones a Gucci ass cigar-bar/boutique gunshop, and the other is your boomer gunshop with 9,000 random fucking gun related accessories you didnt know you needed when you accidentally find them in a bin.

Tough shit OP that was my best idea.

My backup ones are a drive through mexican taco joint or a drive through liquor/fireworks stand.

Scratch that, even better fucking idea.
Bavarian playground. Make it the best shit imaginable. Pirate ship, jungle gyms, climbing walls, swings, ball pits, tunnels, caves, rolley sections, etc.
Basic premise;
>in germany, theres a fuck ton of kids playgrounds.
>good playgrounds with tons of shit to do, have beer gardens
>beer gardens serve other shit like currywurst, bratwurst, etc. oontop of draft beer, and various snacks/icecream, kids food like nuggets and tendies.
Basically, you set the entrance price to something small like $7, but you rape with the excellent food and alcohol selection.
You also separate the sections between the food area and parents, with a bigass plexiglass wall/window.
Gives parents the feeling of “supervising” because they can see their little shit running around doing whatever the fuck, while also being able to drink a beer in peace not hearing the screeching niggers every .03 seconds.

Somehow germany figured this shit out, but burgerclaps suck assholes as offering things that would be entertaining to adults and kids at the same time.

>>50174572
In Europe we call this a "fun house". Maybe you can get some ideas from searching that.

>>50177962
>Somehow germany figured this shit out, but burgerclaps suck assholes as offering things that would be entertaining to adults and kids at the same time.
>while also being able to drink a beer in peace not hearing the screeching niggers every .03 seconds
It's like you answered your own question. Some businesses do not work in the US because we have too many niggers. It literally creates walls to certain businesses succeeding here.

>>50177205
I am sorry anon

>>50174494
Make it gay themed

>>50177962
We literally have this exact thing in the form of craft breweries. They're usually outdoors though so you sit around the jungle gyms in Adirondack chairs.

>>50177169
>Barely break even on a shitty laser tag venue
Why though?

Looking online, it's running summer camps and field trip visits, so if it's currently failing, I don't think pivoting to a different kid oriented activity will work any better than just trying to modernize.

I say gut it and franchise out a gym like 24hr fitness. You could capture a lot of business off location alone.

>>50179344
That is a bare minimum projection. If you have at least 2 bookings every weekend, you are making 4000 a month. You could realistically bring in revenues of 10000 a month if you have people coming in on weekdays, can get a liquor license and have "Happy hour" nights, host multiple parties every weekend, etc.

>convert to mini golf and sell booze
>laundromat
>rent it out
>>50177725

gut it and turn it into climate controlled storage units

>>50175391
>you could even program and make/3dprint your own laser tag equipment for pennies on the dollar.
i want to make lasers. please.elaborate

>>50174494
I used to go there a lot as a kid

>>50175441
>>50177050
ya i would have found this gay as a kid. even mcdonalds play place was way better than this

op, youre not going to bring back discovery zone lol. its just an outdated, unpopular thing. if youre lazy renting the building would probably be somewhat profitable in the current climate

>>50178075
we dont do that shit over here, you fucking pervert. youre german, arent you?

>>50174572
It has that comet long pong vibe

>>50180630
Ping pong** ffs

>>50177205
Hang in there fren...we all have to make it someday

>>50180549
The lasers are the only thing you buy. Lasing media is not easy to make yourself.

>Tyler, Texas
How about I kill myself instead

>>50177140
this is actually a killer idea. the gay dinosaur decor becomes a bonus..it would be the nicest daycare in town

>>50175061
Titty bar with science museum crap. You can get drunk and play with science museum crap while waiting for next strip pole dance show.

>>50180734
your mom lased my media last night. seemed easy for her

>>50174494
The only thing I know about Tyler, Texas is the song by The Toadies.
Which is about a stalker who kidnaps a woman in Tyler and takes her to Mexico.

https://youtu.be/eKbk7BPXBa4

>>50177185
>so your family didn't leave you shit
I don’t think OP was saying they did, this is all hypothetical

>>50177185
Based detective

>>50177140
downtown daycare for commuting roasties
this is the move

>>50174494
Buy the building maybe and turn it into something people actually want to do, see what the cost is to get rid of all that shit inside and see if the numbers work. If it's a good enough location just turn the building into something else.

>>50174551
that seems like a concrete snake pit

>>50180973
Down by the boathouse I'll show you my dark secret

>>50175441
>this
do zoomers not have imaginations? jesus, i’d be over the moon to go the play place at Burger Kang and i didn’t even care for the food. literally just wanted to crawl through the dark tube to the net jail and then pretend to escape

>>50174494
Copy the business model of 115 Bourbon Street located in Merionette Park, IL. Google it. Remember to constantly host fundraisers for politicians and fundraisers for charities. It will result in the establishment becoming a focal point of the community. Congrats..... you made it

>>50174494
Teach kids the things they really want to know - like how to publish NFT's.

>>50183311
115 Bourbon Street is a sports bar/beer garden/concert venue/event venue

It was converted from an old Home Depot type store. Similar in size and structure as your retarded discovery zone. Find 115 Bourbon St Floorplan.

This location has been a cash king for over two decades with no signs of slowing. Owners are multi millionaires. Good luck