Indoor Kart Racing Facility Proposed for Horsham
The idea is met with early opposition from the township council.
Their areas of expertise are marble, granite and trees, but a pair of local investors would like to add indoor kart racing to their repertoires with plans to makeover the shuttered Walmart on Blair Mill Road. Travis Thompson, president of Ivyland-based Suburban Marble and Granite and Carl Asplundh of Willow Grove-based Asplundh Tree Experts, are looking to pump more than $1 million into the 100,000-square-foot former Walmart building located in the Acme shopping center. The hope is to give the vacant big box storefront new life as a Speed Raceway franchise. Plans involve housing 40 electric-powered cars at roughly $9,000 a piece, inside the former store, Thompson said. Eight of those would race at a time, traveling about one inch off the …
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