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Old 01-14-2019, 11:38 AM
 
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According to this article, a multi billion Disneyland type development might be coming to the St. George area.

Personally, I am opposed to this as it will ruin the tranquility of the area even more to say the least.

https://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/ar...k#.XDzIkVxKg2w
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Old 01-14-2019, 12:57 PM
 
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From what I can tell, it appears to be a wild west dinner theater with a western town with shops. I don't know how that would fare during the off peak season. Initial articles made it sound like it was an actual Disney development, but they were edited to clarify that Disney has no involvement.

There has been a series of failed efforts to bring amusement parks to Washington County, not all of them practical. In 2009, "Our World Family" was proposed for Hurricane, a combination private school and theme park with the theme of "high morals." The school children were to staff the park including "world's largest roller coaster" and "world's largest indoor ski slope" as "part of their curriculum." This was to be built with $3 billion in industrial bonds accessing Utah's state retirement fund. The people proposing it had no theme park experience. Hurricane rejected it. In my opinion, this project had no chance of succeeding and could have taken down the state retirement fund with it. Most of the proposals and arguments over them have disappeared from the web, but traces remain. Southern Utah Theme Park | Inside Ski Resort | Commercial Real Estate St George

Another project that never materialized was 2008's Sky of Dreams Movie Ranch which had theme park elements including a "swim with dolphins" feature. Again, website now gone, but traces remain. It was to be funded by a yet to be written fantasy trilogy which was to be "bigger than Harry Potter." https://www.deseretnews.com/article/695246281/State-of-the-art-Sky-of-Dreams-Ranch-announced-for-southern-Utah.html



I do not know what became of investors' money in these or other projects.

The wild west town project actually sounds more reasonable than some of these examples, but over the last 15 years that I have been tracking this stuff, none of these projects including housing master-planned communities such as Elim Valley have come to full fruition. Elim Valley actually took down several banks from other states with it. I could write a book on all the proposed developments for southern Utah that have not happened... walkable high density developments in inappropriate rural locations, huge developments with grand entertainment features, theme parks, yadda yadda. Not saying that the wild west one is also pie in the sky, just stating the history.

Last edited by cedarite; 01-14-2019 at 01:08 PM.. Reason: adding link
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