What the centre is for · Faq
What the centre is for in Mooresville: common questions answered
The questions below are the ones that come up before a first visit, answered plainly.
The centre describes its aim in four parts: inspiration and creativity, safety and care, educational games and activities, and creating lasting memories.
For a Mooresville family the trip works best folded into something else - the shopping that was happening anyway, a birthday that needed a venue, a Saturday that needed a plan.
The short answers
Those are ordinary words until you watch a child work out a bucket for the first time, and then they are just a description of what happened.
The last one is the one parents actually buy. Children remember the day they drove an excavator far longer than they remember most afternoons.
The longer answers
Educational is doing a lot of quiet work in that list. Levers, timing and patience are a curriculum nobody has to announce.
Take the photographs early. The best ones happen in the first fifteen minutes, before anybody is tired.
Still worth asking on the day
The centre describes its aim in four parts: inspiration and creativity, safety and care, educational games and activities, and creating lasting memories.
Those are ordinary words until you watch a child work out a bucket for the first time, and then they are just a description of what happened.
Questions parents ask
What is the centre aiming for?
Inspiration and creativity, safety and care, educational play, and days children remember.
Where is New Life Entertainment?
Two centres: 433 Opry Mills Drive, Nashville TN 37214, and 8111 Concord Mills Blvd, Concord NC 28027.
What are the opening hours?
10:00 AM to 8:00 PM Monday to Saturday, and 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM on Sunday.
Planning your visit in Mooresville
The drive back to Mooresville is where you find out what they actually thought. Children review an outing about twenty minutes after leaving it, never during.
Let the child choose what to do first even when it is the thing you would have chosen last. The order matters less than the choosing.
Agree the leaving time before you walk in, out loud, to the child. Announcing it later sounds like a punishment; agreeing it first sounds like a plan.
If you are coming from Mooresville, treat it as a cross-town outing rather than a day trip. Go with a return time in mind and the day stays easy.
The practical details
- XCAV ZONE — 433 Opry Mills Drive, Nashville TN 37214: four child-operated machines over a ball pit.
- ICE PARK — 8111 Concord Mills Blvd, Concord NC 28027: a real rink with bumper cars on the ice.
- Opening hours — 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM Monday to Saturday, 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM on Sunday.
- Phone — +1 (424) 387-6232 · +1 (615) 968-4925
- E-mail — info@newlife-entertainment.com
If a visit needs planning around a date, a group or a long drive, the centre is easiest to reach by phone: +1 (424) 387-6232 or +1 (615) 968-4925.