
The future business site also must be with an enclosed regional mall with more than 800,000 square feet of gross leasable area.Round1 is one of my boys’ favorite place to go with their friends for a few hours of “down-time” or a birthday party. For details, go to and click on the “employment” link.Īccording to the company’s website, its requirements for picking a spot to open include having at least a 150,000 population within five miles. The company is seeking employees for associate and manager positions in Hayward. It also has dozens of locations across the United States, where many offer exclusive Japanese arcade games.Īlong with Hayward, two additional stores are set to open in Burbank and Roseville, which will bring the number of Round One locations in California to 11.

In 1993, the business became Round One Entertainment, which also offers darts and ping pong, food, beer and wine, plus a kids play area at its locations.Īs of 2017, Round One had 105 stores in Japan, according to the company’s website. Round One emerged from Sugino Kosan, a company founded in 1980 in Japan by Masahiko Sugino that featured roller skating and arcade games. The upcoming opening of the one-stop entertainment business will follow Century Theatre opening at the mall in December, and H&M, the clothing and accessories giant, in April. Eden neighborhoods, is undergoing renovations aimed at modernizing its look. Round One’s opening comes as Southland Mall, which is along Interstate 880 and near Hayward’s Southgate and Mt. “This will be one of our bigger sites,” Kinjo said. Most of the chain’s locations are 50,000 to 60,000 square feet. The square footage of the Hayward site was not available.

In Hayward, the center reportedly will be on the second floor above Dick’s Sporting Goods on the north side of the mall where a Mervyn’s, and then a Kohl’s, once operated. Round One has been opening centers in large spaces left at malls as anchor stores have closed. It will mark the chain’s third location in the Bay Area after Concord’s Sunvalley Mall and at Eastridge Shopping Center in San Jose. No official date for the Round One opening has been announced, though it’s expected to happen toward the end of next month.

The site of the Holiday Bowl, a landmark in the south of town since opening in 1958 at Mission Boulevard and Industrial Parkway West, is scheduled to be developed into townhouses. Hayward has been without a bowling alley since 2005, when the city’s last remaining one, Holiday Bowl, shut down. Round One, a Japanese retail chain, offers bowling, arcade games, karaoke and other activities, as well as a bar and restaurant, within a single spot. The lanes will be in Round One Entertainment’s center in Southland Mall. HAYWARD - For the first time in more than a decade, Hayward will have bowling lanes, scheduled to open this summer.
