{"id":2103590,"date":"2025-10-20T13:28:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2103590"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:28:41","slug":"building-community-through-location-based-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/building-community-through-location-based-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Community Through Location-Based Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"723\" data-end=\"1029\">From Dallas to New York, cities are reimagining how people play and connect with one another. The rise of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketsandmarkets.com\/blog\/ICT\/us-location-based-entertainment-market\">\u201clocation-based entertainment\u201d (LBE) spots<\/a> like Topgolf, Sandbox VR, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/goodsurf.co\/\">Goodsurf Beach Club<\/a> signals a new chapter in the way community and recreation come together. With over 65% of Goodsurf\u2019s visitors returning multiple times a month, co-founder <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/zach-shor-06a2b713\/\">Zach Shor<\/a> is proving that the future of leisure is experiential, social, and emotionally restorative.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"572\" data-end=\"761\">But what makes some LBE concepts stick while others fade fast? And how can design, hospitality, and business strategy converge to create spaces that people don\u2019t just visit\u2014but belong to?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"763\" data-end=\"1172\">Welcome to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/marketscale.com\/shows\/dlc-drop-podcast\/\"><em>The DLC Drop Podcast<\/em><\/a>. In the latest episode,\u00a0host <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/john-davidson-42953846\/\">John Davidson<\/a> sits down with Zach Shor, co-founder of Goodsurf Beach Club, to explore the art and science of building \u201csticky\u201d experiences that turn customers into communities. The two dive deep into Zach\u2019s evolution from kindergarten teacher to Topgolf executive to experiential entrepreneur, unpacking what makes concepts like Goodsurf thrive.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1174\" data-end=\"1201\"><strong data-start=\"1174\" data-end=\"1199\">Top insights from the talk:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"1202\" data-end=\"1578\">\n<li data-start=\"1202\" data-end=\"1343\">\n<p data-start=\"1204\" data-end=\"1343\">How Goodsurf Beach Club transformed Dallas\u2019 Deep Ellum into a \u201cbeachside oasis\u201d\u2014as well as the secrets behind making LBE spaces feel authentic.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1344\" data-end=\"1458\">\n<p data-start=\"1346\" data-end=\"1458\">Lessons from Topgolf\u2019s expansion and why starting small\u2014and \u201cdeserving to grow\u201d\u2014is key to sustainable success.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1459\" data-end=\"1578\">\n<p data-start=\"1461\" data-end=\"1578\">Why the real value of play, connection, and risk-taking goes beyond profit margins\u2014it\u2019s about human transformation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"1580\" data-end=\"2133\">Zach Shor is a veteran leader in the location-based entertainment and experiential leisure industry, specializing in concept development, real estate expansion, and operational strategy. He served as Chief Operating Officer at Topgolf International and later led innovation initiatives at GameStop, driving community-focused retail and gaming experiences. Now co-founder of Goodsurf Beach Club and Urban Entertainment Concepts, Shor continues to pioneer immersive, high-engagement venues that blend recreation, hospitality, and business innovation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1580\" data-end=\"2133\"><em>Article written by MarketScale.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source marketscale.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 From Dallas to New York, cities are reimagining how people play and connect with one another. The rise of \u201clocation-based entertainment\u201d (LBE) spots like Topgolf, Sandbox VR, and Goodsurf Beach Club signals a new chapter in the way community and recreation come together. With over 65% of Goodsurf\u2019s visitors returning multiple times a month, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2103591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Building-Community-Through-Location-Based-Entertainment.webp.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103592,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103590\/revisions\/2103592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2103591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}