"This public-private partnership will attract tournaments and visitors, support local businesses, create jobs and generate economic activity," Henderson Mayor Michelle Romero said, as quoted by the Las Vegas Sun in its September report on Henderson Sport & Social.
The quote is about tournaments and hotel rooms, but the same Sun report gives a plainer reason for the building. The city was responding to growth on its west side, where new subdivisions had outstripped recreational capacity in recent years. For years West Henderson had plenty of rooftops and not much to do between them on a Saturday. In October that changed along St. Rose Parkway. A city-backed fieldhouse opened there, and a block of new restaurants at Cactus Avenue had already been serving customers for weeks. The gap was filled from two sides at once.
A $70 million answer to a recreation shortage
Henderson Sport & Social sits at 3375 St. Rose Parkway. It's a two-level, 180,000-square-foot building that the City of Henderson built through a public-private partnership with KemperSports, the Chicago-based company that runs it. According to the Las Vegas Sun, the total cost was $70 million. The ribbon-cutting was in mid-October and the city advertised an Oct. 16–17 grand-opening weekend. By Oct. 21, the Review-Journal's Neon was reporting it as open and running.
The building has two halves. The sports side has four convertible basketball courts, indoor turf fields for soccer and other sports, and a full fitness center. The entertainment side has 20 bowling lanes, six of them VIP lanes. It also has a double-decker laser tag arena, minigolf, an arcade, a 30,000-square-foot family entertainment area, and a restaurant with a full-service bar. Food and drinks are under the venue's "Social House" section.
No membership is required, so anyone can walk in. Henderson residents get 20% off select programming and activities through the city's agreement with KemperSports. That discount is how the city's investment comes back to the people whose neighborhoods prompted it.
KemperSports CEO Steve Skinner described the appeal at the ribbon-cutting, as reported by the Review-Journal: "We really like these types of projects, because it has something for everyone."
What a Saturday there costs
You can pay for activities one at a time or buy a bundled multi-attraction pass. Prices go up on weekends. These are the listed rates on the venue's attractions page as of October 2026, and they may change:
Activity | Mon–Thu | Fri–Sun and holidays |
|---|---|---|
Standard bowling, per lane per hour, up to 6 people | $45 | $55 |
VIP bowling, per lane per hour, up to 6 people | $55 | $75 |
Bowling shoe rental, per person | $5 | $5 |
18-hole mini-golf, per person | $12 | $15 |
Laser tag, per person | $10 one game, $17 two, $25 three | same |
Bowling works out best for a full lane. On a Saturday, six people sharing a standard lane pay $55 for the hour plus $30 in shoe rentals, which is $85 total or about $14 each. Two people on the same lane pay $65, or $32.50 each, because the lane price doesn't shrink with the group. Mini-golf costs $3 more per person on weekends, and the course is outdoors. As October turns to November, a late-afternoon round is a comfortable choice. Laser tag is priced the same every day, so it doesn't matter when you book it.
If your Saturdays are full with youth sports already, the Review-Journal's write-up starts there. It points out that this is a youth sports venue with a full bar and dining room in the same building.
The weeknight half of the building
The courts may matter more to West Henderson than the bowling lanes, because weeknight court space was the shortage the city described. The venue's first adult leagues run Oct. 26 to Dec. 18, with weekly games.
- Basketball: games on Mondays or Wednesdays. Listed fees are $925 per team or $139 per individual.
- Volleyball: games on Wednesdays. Listed fees are $975 per team or $110 per individual.
Henderson residents get 20% off those registration fees, according to the basketball and volleyball league pages. On a $925 basketball team fee, that comes to $185. The season's first games were scheduled for Monday, Oct. 26. If you miss the fall season, keep an eye on those pages for the next one.
The restaurants came for the hospitals
The second half of this story started before the fieldhouse opened, and for a different reason. The Village at St. Rose is an 11.7-acre mixed-use development at Cactus Avenue and St. Rose Parkway. Hoodline reported that it's anchored by a large Optum medical facility. It sits between two regional hospitals, the 326-bed St. Rose Dominican Hospital – Siena Campus and the 150-bed West Henderson Hospital. According to that report, the medical traffic during the day has drawn restaurant operators to the area. The restaurants were built for the weekday lunch crowd from the medical campus, and they're open on weekends too. All four tenants in the center's two retail buildings are now operating.
Maxie's Restaurant & Bar, 1695 E. Cactus Ave., Suite 150. The restaurant opened its original location at The LINQ Promenade in 2017 and now has a Henderson location as well. The Strip location is known for cereal milkshakes, cotton candy pancake towers, and French toast topped with Fruity Pebbles. The Henderson location takes reservations and publishes brunch, dinner, and happy hour times on its site. It also has a private dining room and shares a 130-seat event space with its neighbor.
Aroma Café, 1695 E. Cactus Ave., Suite 100. It serves coffee, fresh pastries, and café classics, and it's open daily from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Meráki Greek Grill, 1685 E. Cactus Ave., Suite 100. News 3 covered the opening of this location of the Las Vegas-based chain in July. The chain's location page lists it as open seven days a week.
Handel's Homemade Ice Cream, 1685 E. Cactus Ave., Suite 130. It's open daily from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. That's the latest closing time of the four, so it works as the last stop after an evening at the lanes.
Dinner with a view at the M
For a sit-down dinner, the M Resort now has a celebrity chef for the first time. Emeril Lagasse opened Meril there on July 14, according to Eater Vegas. The 220-seat dining room has floor-to-ceiling windows. There's also a wraparound terrace above the M Pool with distant views of the Strip, which is more comfortable now that the evenings are cooler.
Meril serves all day. Breakfast includes beignets, andouille sausage potato hash, and bananas foster French toast. Lunch and dinner bring Lagasse's gumbo, barbecue shrimp, and blue crab linguine, plus wood-fired flatbreads and a grilled rib-eye. The pineapple upside-down cornbread, topped with bacon marmalade, is one of the signature snacks. Eater reports that M Resort's food and beverage vice president, Michael Credico, hopes the restaurant draws locals to the property, eight months after the M opened a 375-room hotel tower. It's one more sign that businesses are aiming at West Henderson residents, not just visitors.
One way to string it together
Here's one way to fit it all into a single Saturday, based on the listed hours and prices above:
- Morning: coffee and pastries at Aroma Café, which opens at 7 a.m., or brunch at Maxie's next door.
- Late morning or afternoon: Henderson Sport & Social. Book a standard lane for a group of six, where the $55 weekend rate goes furthest. Add an outdoor round of mini-golf before the light fades.
- Late afternoon: an early Greek dinner at Meráki, a few doors down from where the day started at Cactus Avenue.
- Evening: Meril's terrace at the M Resort if you want a sit-down dinner with a Strip view instead.
- Last stop: Handel's, open until 10 p.m.
If your weekend plans keep pulling you toward St. Rose Parkway and you've started wondering how close you'd like to live to it, The Abella Team can help. We follow what opens in West Henderson and can walk you through the streets around this corridor in person or by video. Schedule a consultation, and bring your questions about the neighborhood.
