Before the doors opened

"Jonah Sandler, CEO of Scene75 Entertainment Center, sat down with his partners one evening to explain his predicament. He and his team were three months away from opening the largest indoor entertainment center in the country. Scene75, a 124,000-square-foot facility, had been his brainchild and his life’s labor for more than three years. However, numerous city-imposed plan revisions, all in the late stages of construction, had led to significant cost overruns, ultimately consuming the entire project’s budget and handcuffing any proposed marketing expenditure. While free local media coverage,…