Smashed Up submits development application to start business at Mowbray
Tasmania’s first smash room is hoped to be up and running soon where people can let out their frustrations. Find out what a smash room is and how it works.
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Paying money to go into a room with random objects and smashing them with a sledgehammer seems like a foreign concept.
But smash rooms have become the rage worldwide, and now Tasmania could have its first venue where people can let out their anger and frustration.
A development application has been lodged with the Launceston City Council to turn a warehouse at 4-6 Conway Street at Mowbray into a Smash room.
Caleb Cornwell is the owner of Smashed Up, the prospective business that will be in the warehouse at Mowbray.
“I thought of Launceston being the best place because it’s centralised,” Mr Cornwell said.
“I know a lot of people will drive up from Hobart, and it’s about a similar drive time to Burnie, so Launceston is ideal.”
Mr Cornwell believed a business such as a smash room could succeed.
“The appeal of it is basically allowing a different kind of avenue to release frustration that is common in day-to-day lives,” he said.
“We’d rely on donations to make sure that we have constant stock coming in.
“The gist of the smash room is you come into the venue, pay your booking fee, and then you go into a room.
“You smash the items that are in there, and then you just leave feeling a lot better.”
Mr Cornwell hoped the business would open within the next few months.
“Everything is just pending that council approval, which I’m hoping within the next month I do receive,” he said.
“I’ve had people calling from Western Australia and Queensland wanting to come down and go to the smash room.
“The traction that I’ve had from my social media page has been absolutely peaking.”
The development application for Smashed Up is available to view and make submissions until January 14.
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