United States Raging Waves Project 2027: Action River, Family Pool, & Adult Pool with Swim-up Bar

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Illinois' largest waterpark is planning to expand.

From the Lucky Strike Entertainment earnings call:

• Permitting delays have postponed planned expansion projects, notably at Raging Waves, where new attractions will be deferred until at least summer 2027.

Michael Kupinski: Yeah. Obviously, you are anticipating that the water parks are going to contribute meaningfully into the fourth quarter, so I plan to get a little granular here and start for the questions. In terms of Raging Waves, you indicated that it came with a lot of land. And I know that you had anticipated that you had planned to build out some event space there and maybe do some expansion. I was wondering if you had already done that. And then part of the growth that we saw last year, I think you said that you introduced alcohol and that we saw a little revenue lift from that.

Thomas Shannon: Hi. This is Tom Shannon. Thanks for the question. With regard to Raging Waves, we did add some covered event spaces with open sides, and those were open for the last season. We also got a beer license in the middle of 2024, and we had that last year. That contributed a couple hundred thousand dollars in alcohol sales. We are increasing food and beverage availability throughout the park for this year. We have sort of reconfigured the flow as you walk in and where we have placed certain food and beverage outlets, optimized that. I think you will see continued lift. We purchased 66 acres adjacent to that park.

We have not done anything with it, and we do not have any plans at present. We were going to embark on a pretty meaningful expansion of the park with the addition of an Action River, a family pool, and an adult pool with a swim-up bar that would have increased the in-park capacity by somewhere between 1,500 to 2,000 people. Unfortunately, we were not able to get through the permitting process in time to start construction this year, so that will be deferred to next winter for a 2027 summer opening.

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Illinois' largest waterpark is planning to expand.

From the Lucky Strike Entertainment earnings call:

• Permitting delays have postponed planned expansion projects, notably at Raging Waves, where new attractions will be deferred until at least summer 2027.

Michael Kupinski: Yeah. Obviously, you are anticipating that the water parks are going to contribute meaningfully into the fourth quarter, so I plan to get a little granular here and start for the questions. In terms of Raging Waves, you indicated that it came with a lot of land. And I know that you had anticipated that you had planned to build out some event space there and maybe do some expansion. I was wondering if you had already done that. And then part of the growth that we saw last year, I think you said that you introduced alcohol and that we saw a little revenue lift from that.

Thomas Shannon: Hi. This is Tom Shannon. Thanks for the question. With regard to Raging Waves, we did add some covered event spaces with open sides, and those were open for the last season. We also got a beer license in the middle of 2024, and we had that last year. That contributed a couple hundred thousand dollars in alcohol sales. We are increasing food and beverage availability throughout the park for this year. We have sort of reconfigured the flow as you walk in and where we have placed certain food and beverage outlets, optimized that. I think you will see continued lift. We purchased 66 acres adjacent to that park.

We have not done anything with it, and we do not have any plans at present. We were going to embark on a pretty meaningful expansion of the park with the addition of an Action River, a family pool, and an adult pool with a swim-up bar that would have increased the in-park capacity by somewhere between 1,500 to 2,000 people. Unfortunately, we were not able to get through the permitting process in time to start construction this year, so that will be deferred to next winter for a 2027 summer opening.

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