07/31/2026
There comes a time where action speaks louder than words. So here is the building. No filter, no AI, no stock photo. Shot this tonight, flown room to room, one take.
That is the trampoline park. That is the jungle gym. Those are the air conditioners running.
I said I was going to do every one of those things and every one of them is done.
Here is what actually happened, since apparently nobody thought to ask.
The truck carrying my equipment showed up five days late. Five. It landed two days before the ribbon cutting. That timing is what cost us the safety inspections, because you cannot inspect equipment that is still sitting on a trailer in California.
So on the 25th I opened the doors and did not take a dollar from anybody. Free. The whole town. I was not going to charge a family to walk through a building where their kids could not play yet. Some of you thought that was funny. I thought it was the only honest thing to do.
Since then we have been doing one thing, chasing inspections. The city has signed off. The state is the last box.
And I am not going to stand here and promise you a date I do not control.
What I will tell you is what I am doing about it. I am on the phone with the state every single day. Paperwork goes back the same hour it comes in, not the next business day. I have paid for every review, every revision, every professional they told me to bring in. If there is a faster way through that process, I have already asked about it, and if one opens up tomorrow I will take it.
The second that clearance lands, I post it here. Same hour. Not a countdown, not a teaser, just open. And if it slips, I will tell you that here too, on the same day I find out, instead of letting you hear it from a Facebook group.
That is the deal. You get the truth from me either way.
Now the part I am actually going to say out loud.
The second something looks shaky, people show up to feed on it. That is not new. What is new is how many of them are people I have never met. Not once. Not a phone call, not a handshake, not five minutes in a room. Six people I could not pick out of a lineup, running a thread about my character.
The rest is one incident from two years ago told with about thirty percent of the facts, or a former employee who was terrible at the job and got let go, same as the last five places that let them go.
If you have a problem with me, my building, or how I run it, the door is at 10 W. Auglaize. It is unlocked and I am here almost every day. Come tell me to my face. Ask me the hard question. I will answer it standing in front of you and I will not need a keyboard to do it.
Not one of them will. That is the whole thing right there.
I built this for my kids first. Addy, Dash, Zayne. A sixteen year old, a fourteen year old and a three year old under one roof, and nowhere in this town to take all three at once. That is not a marketing story, that is my house. Everything in this building came out of that problem.
We heard you, Wapakoneta. We are here to serve this community and we want to see downtown Wapak thrive. That does not change because a Facebook group had a bad night. I am not going to trade insults with people who have never once stood in front of me. I do not need to. The building speaks and so does the work.
The equipment is in. The building is done. We are waiting on one signature, and I am not waiting quietly. I am here anytime. I know who I am and I know those who know me also are okay with who I am and I also know when I lay down at night my kids and my wife know who I am and how hard I work for them and most importantly I know God is looking down seeing all the hateful people with Bible versus in their bio being hateful to a stranger while I’m sitting here helping strangers. That’s the difference between me and them.
Play. Grow. Connect. Repeat.
