When Kevin Guy opened Everything Hobby in Austin about a year ago, he wanted to find a way to make a bit more of an impact on the community.

Now he has his idea.

Guy, who also owns an Everything Hobby in Rochester, is looking to do the same thing he did with his other store: He wants to get a remote control car race track set up.

Guy has his eyes set on the empty lot between the Historic Paramount Theatre and the Tendermaid along Fourth Avenue Northeast. And he’s looking to turn it into a place were locals can take their remote control cars and get them on a track.

“I’ve been asking the whole time what this town is looking for. One of the first things I’ve noticed is that they really like to play with remote control cars,” Guy said.

The Hormel Foundation owns the empty lot between the Paramount and Tendermaid, and Assistant Secretary-Treasurer Sheri Dankert said Guy has permission to use the land for the track. However, The Foundation is keeping its options open for future development plans at the site, though nothing is in the works now, Dankert added.

Guy said he would treat the race track like a skate park where users can come and go as they please. With cars that can go off-road from 20 to 60 miles per hour, Guy said some rules may eventually have to be put into place, but he’s hoping the track can mostly serve as a learning place.

He wants to teach kids about forms of alternative energies to power their remote control cars.

“They’re almost like a science project. We want to teach kids about alternative energy. We’ll do it with solar power and we’ll do it with wind turbines,” Guy said. “It’s for adults, but it’s more about these kids having a place to come to. We can help them with different projects, but we want them to do it and learn.”

Guy opened Austin’s Everything Hobby at 107 Fourth Ave. NE last fall. He opened his Rochester store in 2005.