2 March 2006

Host of new attractions at X-Leisure’s Star City

X-Leisure is delighted to announce the latest additions to its 393,000 sqft Star City leisure and entertainment destination in Birmingham. Following the successful launch of Star Attractions last year, Funstation, a family entertainment centre, and Flame, an Oriental restaurant, have both recently joined Star City’s exciting leisure offer.

HJM Leisure Limited, trading as Funstation, has taken 6,480 sq ft at £64,800 pa for a term of twenty years. Funstation, already an extremely popular attraction at X-Leisure’s Xscape, in Castleford, is a family entertainment centre anchored by a racy Route 66 dodgems track.

Flame, an Oriental buffet, has been added to complement the line-up of bars and restaurants at Star City, joining existing tenants Nandos, La Tasca, Ma Potters, Old Orleans, Burger King and Pizza Hut.

PY Gerbeau, X-Leisure Chief Executive, comments:
“We are very pleased that Star City is attracting further high quality leisure operators. Star City already has a reputation as one of the very best and most innovative family leisure and entertainment destinations in the UK and we are confident that the improvements we are making at Star City will continue to attract people from all over The Midlands and beyond.”

Other attractions already at Star City include the UK’s largest multiplex cinema and the largest casino in Europe, a 22-lane Tenpin, a choice of restaurants and shops, a 50,000 sq ft health club, not to mention the recently introduced ‘Star Attractions’, comprising of a 30m real snow tobogganing slope, a 30ft high rock-climbing wall, a 15m aerial rope assault course running around the atrium of Star City, and an interactive ‘Krypt’ horror attraction, with a new coffee shop overlooking the attractions.

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