Im Jahr 2006 soll sie eröffnen: die Wild West World in Park City, Kansas, USA.
Es soll sich alles um das Thema Wilder Westen drehen und auch eine Achterbahn ist für den Park gewünscht.
Mehr auf englisch:
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Ein neuer belgischer Finanzier unterstützt das Projekt. Angeblich beginnt man im Juni zu bauen.
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Park City theme park wins financing
Now that a Belgian financier is on board, Wild West World is scheduled to open in May 2007.
BY DAN VOORHIS
The Wichita Eagle
Wild West World, the $15 million-$20 million theme park planned for Park City, has secured its financing, developer Tom Etheredge said Monday.
Etheredge said he received a verbal commitment for $10 million last week from Fitraco NV, a Belgian financial company that lends money for entertainment projects. The money will pay for the theme park's rides.
Etheredge expects to receive written confirmation in the next few weeks.
He plans to open the park May 1, 2007.
The rest of the money for the project, at least $6 million, will come from borrowing against the Etheredge's Prairie Rose Chuckwagon Supper Club.
Etheredge has already spent $1.4 million on the land. He plans to spend another $1.5 million to develop roads and utilities. Work will begin in June and be done by Thanksgiving.
Much of the activity on the site this year will be construction of a hotel and six to eight restaurants on lots lining I-135. The hotel deal has already been announced, and Etheredge said he is on the verge of signing contracts with the restaurants.
The project has 18 commercial lots.
He expects to spend another $3 million on the theme park's buildings, parking lot and other components. That work will begin in May 2006. It will take a year to order and set up the rides.
Park City granted Etheredge a 10-year abatement on all property taxes.
"When I'm sticking my neck out for $15 or $20 million, it's great to know I don't have to pay any taxes until I get on my feet," he said.
In return, Park City will receive revenue from sales taxes, property taxes on the commercial development and the hotel room tax, as well as more local jobs.
But the key to the whole project is the rides, Etheredge said. That's where he needed to spin some magic.
Etheredge said he had some difficulty convincing banks to lend him the money for the rides. They just didn't understand how to evaluate the risk to their money, he said.
Fitraco specializes in entertainment financing and understands the amount of money that theme parks can generate if the market is right.
Etheredge said Wichita is a great market that's hungry for a theme park because there are no other parks in Kansas.
And the Western theme is powerful.
He used the power of the cowboy image when Fitraco executives visited Wichita in late April. Even though they are from Belgium, they understood the pull, Etheredge said.
"If there is a golden goose for Kansas, that golden goose is the American cowboy," Etheredge said.
"We got 70,000 people to visit the Prairie Rose last year," he said. "Seventy thousand -- and that's out in the middle of a pasture."
Noch 18 Monate bis zur Eröffnung.
Und die erste Attraktion, eine Wildwasserbahn, kommt.
Posted on Mon, Nov. 21, 2005
First amusement ride to arrive at Wild West World
Wild West World, the amusement park planned for Park City, will get its first ride this week, park officials said today.
The ride is a water log flume that will rise 50 feet in the air. The installation of the other rides will begin in the summer.
Wild West World developers Thomas and Cheryl Etheredge also have signed a deal to buy a carousel from Chance Rides of Wichita.
Construction crews have finished the water and sewer lines and storm drains. They expect to erect a 75-foot tall cowboy sign before Christmas.
Eagle staff
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