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Channel your inner Steve Harvey at one of several new entertainment venues coming to Shenandoah

Get ready for a slew of entertainment centers and new restaurants coming to The Woodlands area.

Soon, you can live out your own "Family Feud" experience at Game Show Battle Rooms, which is expected to open in Shenandoah's Metropark Square in August. The venue offers a "game show" experience, with three different game rooms that include themes from "Wheel of Fortune" and "The Price Is Right."

Shenandoah is developing into an entertainment hub of sports, with high-tech challenge room space BRKThrough and escape foom venue Escapology also coming to the square.

New Shenandoah restaurants include New York City-based bubble tea shop TBAAR, Kyuramen and KPOT Korean BBQ and Hot Pot, which will open at the Sam Moon Shopping Center. Pluckers is also set to open in the city this year.

Check out a full list of new openings from Michael Garcia here.

Do you head to Shenandoah for family-friendly entertainment? Let me know at claire.partain@houstonchronicle.com

Claire Partain, Suburban reporter producer

Claire.Partain@houstonchronicle.com

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"We're very excited to announce plans to return to Houston, Texas. Havertys left Houston more than 40 years ago, and it's the largest market in our footprint where we do not have stores," Clarence Smith, CEO and chairman, said. "We will open our first store in a former Bed Bath & Beyond building in The Woodlands area

Shout out

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