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Re: Newswatch: Fifth Legoland Park in Kansas City area in 2009
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Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:37:19 GMT
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Legoland KC is supposed to be presented to the Olathe City council tonight.  It
looks good except the current plan has tax payers paying 2/3 the cost.  I don't
think people will be real excited about putting up this amount.

This has been discussed on local talk radio today ad nauseum.  And their general
consensus is against the government financing.

From the article:

Two-thirds of the estimated cost of the proposed project would come from state
and city tax incentives and direct subsidies from Olathe. The breakdown of the
public financing:

•tax-increment financing bonds, $5.9 million.

•transportation development district bonds, $47 million.

•city-issued bonds, $64.3 million.

•STAR bonds, $556 million.

The article in Kansas City Star:
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/15275009.htm

The Olathe mayor has released a statement that the city will not put up any
money.



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  Re: Newswatch: Fifth Legoland Park in Kansas City area in 2009
 
My whole take on this is that it is NOT Lego driven, but developer driven. If it goes thru, then the taxpayers of Kansas will be paying for this. But if it fails in the end, it could affect the reputation of Lego... the product. I am leary about (...) (18 years ago, 16-Aug-06, to lugnet.loc.us.ks, lugnet.loc.us.mo, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.legoland)

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  Re: Newswatch: Fifth Legoland Park in Kansas City area in 2009
 
(...) The glory of fast-passes fix that for the more popular rides such as SM ;) But the rides at LLCA move slowww...www. They have very low per-hour capacity that brings everything to a very slow crawl. And it is only worse when LLCA cuts down on (...) (19 years ago, 28-Apr-06, to lugnet.loc.us.ks, lugnet.loc.us.mo, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.legoland)

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