Grand Canyon Disneyland?
A Williams investment group seeking to create a 1,000-acre, multi-themed amusement park that would be part Disneyland, part Renaissance Festival.
A Williams investment group is asking Arizona state lawmakers to help create a 1,000-acre, multi-themed amusement park near Williams that would be part Disneyland, part Renaissance Festival and bring millions, even billions, into local economies.
The plan is to attract some of the 5 million tourists heading to the Grand Canyon each year and keep them for an overnight stay in Williams or Flagstaff, partly as a way to fend off Las Vegas’ successful advertising campaign of flying tourists to the Canyon and taking them back to the casinos, reports The Arizona Daily Sun.
The proposed theme park would be built near the junction of Interstate 40 and Highway 64, an area that averages 16 million passersby per year. Backers hope to attract between 7 million and 8 million customers a year. The average patron is expected to spend about $182 per day.
Among the attractions would be: — a performing arts pavilion that would seat 3,000 to 5,000 and up to 10 times as many on a lawn — an amusement park with two roller coasters — a western theme park — a Route 66 attraction with sock hops, soda shops and car rallies — a Renaissance-Medieval section with a castle and jousting pit — a Navajo museum and arts and crafts site, — an Asian garden — two hotels and condos for long-term lease — a sales and repair facility for sport utility vehicles and motorhomes.
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