A well-known and much-visited amusement park in Scottsdale may soon be redeveloped for other purposes.
Located at 16001 N. Scottsdale Road, the Cracker Jax Family Fun and Sports Park was opened almost three decades ago and features a wide variety of miniature golf, go-kart, and bumper boat offerings.
Sitting on some 28 acres, the park is around 9 miles to the north of downtown Scottsdale in an area of shopping malls and multi-story office buildings.
Now the owner of CrowdStrike Holdings Incorporated, a cybersecurity technology company based in Austin, has purchased the Cracker Jax site for $55.5 million, with plans to turn it into a high-tech business park.
In a statement, George Kurtz, chief executive officer of CrowdStrike, said he hopes to create a “transformational, sustainable mixed-use campus as a catalyst to attract top innovators, technology entrepreneurs, knowledge workers, and venture capitalists to accelerate Scottsdale’s growing technology cluster.”
According to the Phoenix Business Journal, Kurtz has “brought on Stockdale Capital Partners to oversee the project.”
That company, based in Los Angeles, is described as a “vertically-integrated real estate investment firm” which has redeveloped and upgraded shopping mall, hotel, and office projects throughout the southwest.
An exact schedule for the redevelopment of the Cracker Jax site has not yet been announced.
By Garry Boulard
