Lynchburg, VA (312 Border St)

312 Border St was a franchised Showbiz Pizza Place owned by "Adventure Restaurant Corporation" that opened in August 1983.

Stages
When the store first opened they had a regular Rock-Afire Explosion. The location underwent Concept Unification in the early 1990s and would remain as a 3-Stage until 1995, when the franchisee remodeled the store to become "Billy Joe's Ice Cream Parlor" and had Creative Engineering to convert Munch's Make Believe Band back into the Rock-Afire Explosion, albeit with remnants of the 3-Stage.

In 2002 Billy Joe's retired the animatronics and would have them relocated into a barn. Nearly 20 years later, in 2020, Connor Leschinsky and Sptproductions purchased the characters and sold each of the characters without various parts.

History
Lynchburg opened in August 1983 as the second Showbiz Pizza Place in Virginia franchised location.

Their first remodel received was during Concept Unification and would be short lived due to the closure of the store in 1995. The location was remodeled once again into "Billy Joe's Ice Cream Parlor & Restaurant" and had its game area completely removed in favor of an ice cream bar.

Billy Joe's would close not too long after they removed the Rock A-Fire Explosion and would leave the restaurant empty. The exterior and interior became a victim of constant vandalism and would have various walls broken into for years.

On June 23, 2011, the building was purchased and plans for redevelopment started to become an interest, with the Lynchburg Chamber of Commerce, purchasing the property and requesting $3,000,000 dollars for complete redevelopment.

Local Virginia architects, Wiley and Wilson, gave the Commerce design plans, but eventually, all fell through. The building was sold again on June 29, 2016, to Woodspring and was demolished in April of 2021 for a new hotel.