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The\u00a0west end of Veterans Memorial Boulevard is seeing a surge of new businesses, including\u00a0Drew Brees’ latest endeavor, called Surge Entertainment Center. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The northwest corner of Lafreniere Park in Metairie is also now home to a revamped Tacos del Cartel<\/a>, the new Pickle N Pins and a Chuck E. Cheese, among other restaurants and retail stores. And the new Rumba Caribbean restaurant<\/a> opened a mile away this spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n “The entire corridor is experiencing growth, and it’s exciting to see,” Jefferson Parish Council member Arita Bohanan said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n Surge held its grand opening May 17 in a new space that is double the size of the former Surge Adventure Park, which was primarily a trampoline park that closed last year. Sky Zone Trampoline Park is located on the north side of Veterans.\u00a0<\/p>\n Surge Entertainment Center offers go-karts, bowling, sports simulators, mini golf, laser tag and an inflatable bounce house for younger kids.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThis location will be a game-changer for the community,” Darren Balsamo, co-owner and founder, said in a statement announcing the business. “We are committed to providing a premier entertainment experience that caters to all ages, and we can\u2019t wait for everyone to see what we have in store.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Brees is a partner in the company, which has locations across Louisiana as well as\u00a0Florida, Alabama, Virginia, North Carolina and\u00a0Oklahoma City.\u00a0<\/p>\n Its sister company opened Pickle N Pins in October, just across the parking lot from Surge, with pickleball and lesser-known games like padel, duckpin bowling and axe throwing.\u00a0<\/p>\n Tacos Del Cartel opened<\/a> earlier this month with a maximalist, Miami-style renovation within walking distance of Surge. And just down Veterans,\u00a0Rumba opened in March<\/a> with large indoor and outdoor seating areas and a beach vibe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Bohanan said the parish also is about to start work on the\u00a0Soniat Greenway Project, a 12-foot-wide multi-use path with lighting that runs from West Napoleon Avenue to Veterans Boulevard along the canal, running behind the businesses on David Drive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nola.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The\u00a0west end of Veterans Memorial Boulevard is seeing a surge of new businesses, including\u00a0Drew Brees’ latest endeavor, called Surge Entertainment Center. \u00a0 The northwest corner of Lafreniere Park in Metairie is also now home to a revamped Tacos del Cartel, the new Pickle N Pins and a Chuck E. Cheese, among other restaurants and retail […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2275138,"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-2275137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Drew-Brees-opens-Surge-Entertainment-Center-in-Metairie-Business.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275137","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=2275137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275139,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275137\/revisions\/2275139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2275138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}