GEORGETOWN: EastBanc and Jamestown Secure Race-Against-the-Clock Experience 'Escape Room Live' in Georgetown

Locked in a room with 45 minutes on the clock…searching for clues and piecing them together to find the only way out. It may sound like a mystery movie, but it’s real life – it’s Escape Room Live, and it’s coming to Georgetown. EastBanc, Inc. and Jamestown LP announced today that the race-against-the-clock live puzzle game has signed a long-term lease to occupy their retail property at 3345 M St NW. The two-floor, 6,573 square-foot Georgetown space will serve as Escape Room Live’s largest location with six, individually themed game rooms with CGI special effects, a reception space, lounge, bar and catering space designed to entertain up to 150 guests that is set to open this summer. Nicholas Papadopoulos of Papadopoulos Properties represented Escape Room Live in the deal. 

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A challenging, interactive entertainment experience, Escape Room Live incorporates brainteasers and puzzle challenges with the adrenaline rush of a race against the clock. Participants are locked inside a themed room with 45 minutes to find and decipher clues that will help them figure their way out. With only a few hints, the group must use their wits, ingenuity and teamwork to complete the challenge and “escape the room.” 

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Unlike any other escape room experience, Georgetown’s Escape Room Live has an exclusive partnership with Paramount Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment to create authentic, movie-themed rooms based on classics like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Ghostbusters. Escape Room Live will also bring Titanic, Friday the 13th, The Mummy and Edgar Allan Poe rooms to the new M Street location. 

“We are taking the level of immersion up several notches by incorporating Hollywood-style set design, CGI effects, lighting and sound into our new rooms,” says Ginger Flesher-Sonnier, owner and CEO of Escape Room Live. “With these upgraded effects, we are able to bring a greater sense of reality to the game. For example, the Titanic room will have a porthole timer where the water level viewed through the porthole gradually gets higher as time passes and, at 45 minutes, will appear to crack the window and water will look like it’s pouring in.”

The Escape Room Live location in Georgetown offers a new and exciting activity and entertainment to the main street and complements the dining and shopping experiences Georgetown has to offer. Friends and family can now shop, eat, and entertain a variety of ages and interests. As Escape Room Live is a teamwork-based activity, the six-room Georgetown location will also serve as a great corporate or student outing. With its engaging and accessible nature, Escape Room Live brings a fresh and fun twist to the shopping capital of DC.

“When we heard of the growing appeal of this concept we immediately looked for the best operator in town,” says Philippe Lanier, vice president of EastBanc. “We believe the Escape Room team takes painstaking care in making the experience addictive and repeatable, and will be an appealing addition to the urban fabric of Georgetown.”