Whether kids in Buffalo Grove and neighboring suburbs will have new walls to bounce off of remains to be seen.
The Village Board voted Monday to further study the issue of allowing a trampoline-jumping business to open in the municipality.
Xtreme Trampolines offers multiple trampolines linked together, with each edge covered by pads, giving kids and teens several yards of individual jumping spaces. Owner Eric Beck’s first facility, in
Carol Stream, also includes a 6-foot-deep pit filled with foam pads that customers can dive into — all of which makes for exciting and, by Beck’s admission, risky recreation.
“We’ve had more than 100,000 kids, and some of them do get hurt,” Beck said.
The trustees spoke at length about the multiple angles of the opportunity: giving youth a physical activity that some would prefer to games and computers, protecting their safety during the activity, attracting a new business, adding competition to long-established businesses, adding emergency calls for ambulance crews ... and whether the board should be making decisions that have traditionally been left to parents.
The Village Board voted Monday to further study the issue of allowing a trampoline-jumping business to open in the municipality.
Xtreme Trampolines offers multiple trampolines linked together, with each edge covered by pads, giving kids and teens several yards of individual jumping spaces. Owner Eric Beck’s first facility, in
Carol Stream, also includes a 6-foot-deep pit filled with foam pads that customers can dive into — all of which makes for exciting and, by Beck’s admission, risky recreation.
“We’ve had more than 100,000 kids, and some of them do get hurt,” Beck said.