New Fun Unlimited location opens
On Oct.1, small local business Fun Unlimited opened a new location at 1950 North Main Street. This reopening came after months of searching for a new space due to the closure of Cache Valley Mall in April.
Fun Unlimited buys and sells various items such as video games, vinyl records, books and video game consoles. Owner Scott McUne had difficulty securing a new location for his Logan store, temporarily moving most of his inventory to his other locations in Provo and Ogden.
“We probably had about five or six different places that looked really positive, but they fell through. So it’s been frustrating,” McUne said. “I’ve been driving back and forth to Provo to work at the store there.”
After securing a deal with the new location’s owner, they have been moving in since the beginning of the month. The location previously housed multiple other businesses.
“It was actually a mattress place, a hair-cutting place and a mortuary,” McUne said. “My kids were like, ‘Great, we went from the haunted mall to here!”’
The old location doubled as an arcade, housing various machines such as a dance game called Pump It Up Pro 2024 and Space Invaders Frenzy.
“We’re planning on making an arcade room, but this location doesn’t have the height for some of those games, so we won’t be able to fit as many of them,” McUne said. “We’re talking to the man who owned the coin-pusher game and seeing if we can fit in the boxing game we used to have.”
August Draper, a Logan resident, frequented Fun Unlimited’s previous mall location and went to the new location on opening day.
“Fun Unlimited’s new location is in some ways nice, but largely missing what made the last location charming. It felt like a private area to find anything nerdy you could think of,” Draper said. “The new location is off to the side of a highway, tucked into a building with low ceilings and faded parking spots. The building is much smaller than the last location, and while a large portion of the movies and games remain, practically everything else has been gutted.” In this increasingly corporatized town it is nice to have a small, locally owned business show resilience, but I don’t know if that is good enough when the competition is in many ways better,” Draper said.
The staff are still relocating and stocking their inventory, and they hope to be finished in time for the holiday season.
“Within the next few weeks, I think it will look completely different in here,” McUne said.
Fun Unlimited’s current hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday to Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. on Sundays.
“Come in and plan on looking for a little bit, but come and support us so we can continue to afford the rent. The rent has been all over the place after the mayor eliminated 400,000 square feet of retail space,” McUne said.