The venture got off to a roaring start, but sputtered after a couple of years, prompting John to turn to his uncle for a boost.
Their original concept was to create a corporate-team building and entertainment venue built around kart racing and arcade games. Hamann, a native of Colombia, has been operations director of the enterprise that morphed into AIKG since 2001 when he and John Andretti opened Andretti Speed Lab in Roswell. “It’s been a tough year for the Andrettis,” said Eddie Hamann, managing partner of AIKG, which is based in Orlando, Florida. "We need an icebreaker, and I think this is the icebreaker for that area over there," Schaumburg Trustee Frank Kozak said of the Andretti Karting venue Monday.Credit: Alyssa Alyssa Andretti for the day-long media confab and invitation-only celebration was a family entourage, which included his youngest son Jeff nephew Adam, son of Mario’s twin brother Aldo who succumbed to COVID-19 in December and Jarrett, son of Mario’s nephew John Andretti who died of colon cancer in January 2020 at age 56. Officials believe the Andretti facility will generate interest in those sites.
The pending agreement with Kensington would give it a two-year option to exclusively market and purchase the remaining two parcels in the entertainment district's first phase. The company has locations in Florida, Georgia and Texas. The building would include a multilevel karting track, arcade, two-level laser tag arena, bowling, virtual reality attractions, a full restaurant and bar and 10,000 square feet of event space. Schaumburg officials are closing in on an agreement endorsed by the village's general government committee Monday to pay Oak Brook-based Kensington Development Partners $23.7 million to develop the first 8-acre phase of what's envisioned to ultimately be a 23-acre entertainment district on the east side of Meacham Road north of the I-90 tollway.Īndretti Karting would pay the village $6 million for a development-ready site where it plans to invest another $30 million in an 80,000-square-foot facility.
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