Get the location right and many other mistakes become survivable. Get it wrong and even excellent operations may not save you.

This blog will present a top-level project timeline Rise Above uses with clients — 17 work streams across 5 phases. We've framed it the way we think about it: as a countdown. T-0 is the soft opening. Everything else is measured in months before that day.

Real numbers, line by line, of the cost to open a climbing gym — from Rise Above, who has helped open gyms across the globe.