Love, Community Brought This Family Business to Main Street

Neither Russell nor Amber Sebastian planned to own and operate an escape room for a living when they started their live together. How could they? The concept has only been around for a decade or so, with its soaring expansion interrupted by a public health crisis that made being locked in a room with friends a little less fun. But, like so many pioneers before them, the Sebastians fell in love with an idea... and let it carry them to Grapevine, Texas.?

Then an IT professional and a dental office manager by trade, the couple tried their first escape room in 2012 and couldn’t wait to bring the concept back home. They took a year to build and test a travel escape room concept, then started dreaming about a brick-and-mortar space. When the time came to pick a permanent home, there was only one choice.?

“We started doing Runway Theater in 2004, fell in love with the City, and we knew we had to move here,” Amber said. “We moved here as quick as we could to be close to the theater… volunteered for everything under the sun, and so when we decided to open an escape room there was no other option.”?

Fortunately, the City loved them right back.?

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