This ‘Las Vegas for kids’ will open soon. Here are the details.

Urban Air Adventure Park is coming to Macon, but it might take a little longer than initially planned.

Steven Jackson, one of the owners of the Urban Air Adventure Park in Macon, said construction delays moved back their original opening date from April to the end of the summer.

Jackson, from Macon, looks forward to bringing the business to the building at 156 Tom Hill Sr. Blvd. where Kmart closed in 2018, he said.

“It just means a lot to me to be able to give back to a place where I’m from,” he said. “I like to say it’s like Las Vegas for kids.”

The 53,000-square-foot building will feature around 20 different attractions including dodgeball courts, obstacle courses, multi-level climbing ropes and trampolines.

The Macon Urban Air will employ more than 100 people, and Jackson said he plans to hire high school students.

When Jackson was growing up in Macon, he said he was told he wouldn’t be successful because he struggled in the classroom. Jackson wants to mentor students to believe in themselves and help keep them out of trouble, he said.

His wife, Kyanne, an electrical engineer at Robins Air Force Base, and an Atlanta couple, Alison and Zu McReynolds, are also owners of Macon Urban Air.

Urban Air Adventure Park has four locations surrounding Atlanta, but the Macon location will be the first in Middle Georgia, according to its website.

Jackson, Kyanne and their five children, now living in Warner Robins, had to travel to Atlanta to find entertainment like an Urban Air Adventure Park, so he wanted to bring it to Macon.

“It’s not just for the kids. I feel like it’ll be a place where families can get together and just have fun,” he said.

At 29-years-old, Jackson said he and Kyanne are both kids at heart, and he hopes Macon Urban Air can bring the community together with its wide variety of activities.

“I feel like Macon kind of gets a black eye sometimes when I know there’s a lot of good people that live there,” he said. “I really don’t think Middle Georgia has seen anything like this. I can’t stress that enough, and I feel like it’ll be a safe, fun environment just for families to get together, corporate events, birthday parties. I feel like Macon needs this, and this is what Macon’s been missing.”