The long-stalled Sunrise Mall makeover just landed a splashy first act. Slick City Action Park has signed on for a sizable indoor slide park at the Sunrise Tomorrow redevelopment in Citrus Heights, giving the 100-acre project one of its first big, visible tenants and a potential momentum boost after years of planning and wrangling over the property.
Slick City Action Park, a Missouri-based operator that bills itself as the world’s first indoor slide park, has agreed to lease 33,459 square feet at the Sunrise Tomorrow development, according to CoStar. The CoStar report, published May 21, 2026, identifies the site as 5900 Sunrise Blvd. and names Slick City as the tenant, while noting that a public opening date for the Citrus Heights park has not yet been announced.
Where It Will Go
The future park is slated for the parcel marketed as Sunrise Tomorrow at 5900 Sunrise Blvd., the former Sears building and surrounding parking that have been singled out for the first phase of redevelopment. Marketing materials from Ethan Conrad Properties outline the Sunrise Tomorrow pads and available anchor spaces at the site. A commercial listing for the project also flags the signed Slick City Action Park lease, a clear signal that the developer is leaning hard into experiential tenants as it tries to breathe new life into the former mall footprint.
What Slick City Offers
Slick City markets itself as the world’s first indoor slide park, combining giant dry slides with air courts, junior play zones and event space aimed at birthdays and group outings. The brand has been expanding rapidly through franchising and branded development, pitching its parks as year-round attractions that keep people coming in beyond traditional retail hours. For owners sitting on cavernous, empty former anchor stores, that mix of attractions and events can be an appealing way to turn dead space into a steady traffic driver.
Why This Matters For Citrus Heights
The Sunrise Tomorrow Specific Plan serves as the city’s roadmap for remaking the 100-acre mall site into a mixed-use district with housing, hotels and new retail. The property has spent years caught up in legal fights and complex negotiations between developers and stakeholders, according to the Sacramento Bee. City leaders have repeatedly said that entertainment and civic uses are central to their vision of turning the old mall back into a community gathering place, and a signed lease with a major experiential tenant offers one of the first concrete examples of that strategy in action. If the Slick City park is built and opened, it would be among the earliest visible steps in activating the Sunrise Tomorrow site.
For now, neither Slick City nor the site’s broker has released an opening timetable for the Citrus Heights location. Leasing materials and property listings for Sunrise Tomorrow continue to provide broker contacts and parcel details tied to the address at 5900 Sunrise Blvd., and interested parties are being directed to those listings for updates as build-out plans move ahead.
