ScareHouse to take haunting to heart on Valentine’s Day in Pittsburgh
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Being frightened out of their wits may not be most people’s desired box of chocolates on Valentine’s Day, but that’s what ScareHouse Scream District is offering.
After months of delays that prevented ScareHouse from opening in time for Halloween, “The Basement” as it’s called will finally open in Pittsburgh’s Strip District starting Friday evening. A second attraction, “Stalked by a Killer” escape room, also opens the same night.
So, instead of warming hearts, ScareHouse is set to “torment hearts, minds and souls.”
ScareHouse had been headquartered in Etna, where it spent 12 Halloweens inside a 104-year-old building that formerly was a bank and an Elks lodge. Last August, the company announced plans to relocate into a 10,000-square-foot space on Penn Avenue in the Strip.
The Scream District was initially slated to open last Sept. 27 but postponed it until Oct. 10 and then again until Oct. 18 before announcing on Oct. 21 that the opening was postponed until sometime after Halloween.
At the time, ScareHouse’s creative director Scott Simmons attributed the failure to open to “unforeseen issues.”
But with those problems now apparently behind them, ScareHouse said in a statement, “We cannot wait to open our doors at 2420 Penn Ave.”
The escape room is open throughout the year, officials said, while The Basement is open for a limited time.
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