Indoor Skydiving Coming To Patriot Place

FOXBOROUGH, MA — The feeling of being thousands of feet in the air while moving around a 16-foot chamber is coming to Foxborough.

Thursday night, the planning board approved a special permit for Freedom Wind Tunnel, to be located at Patriot Place, next to Showcase Cinema De Lux. The permit will allow the building for the indoor skydiving facility to be 125 feet tall, making it the tallest building in Foxborough not called Gillette Stadium.

Owner Neal Gouck, a former U.S. Army air born ranger and current assistant dean at UMass Dartmouth, told the board that the facility will offer a “peak experience.” The three-floor building will be highlighted by a wind tunnel that customers to feel like they are skydiving, along with a virtual parachuting simulator which will allow guests to pick where they land.

“Maybe they get to drop the game ball onto the 50-yard line at Gillette Stadium,” Gouck said.

There will be no food or drink offerings at the facility, but Police Chief William Baker has offered to help assist the staff with learning to find the signs of inebriation.

Gouck said he also hopes to offer camps and training when they are closed to the public. He said he can start receiving government contracts six months after opening.

Construction on Freedom Wind Tunnel is scheduled to start in the spring and take 12 to 14 months.

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