Common Parks & Resorts says they’re bringing a family-focused theme park and resort lodge to North Texas and a year-round horror expertise to Las Vegas.
In North Texas, Frisco Mayor Jeff Cheney introduced Wednesday morning that Common Parks & Resorts was planning to construct a kid-themed theme park and lodge off the Dallas North Tollway that may present leisure for households for years to return.
Particular particulars in regards to the park weren’t disclosed, however officers did say it will have conventional choices like rides, reveals and meals whereas additionally together with meet and greets with characters from Common properties, movies and reveals — like Minions or Shrek.
A rendering of the park was proven Wednesday morning that included a lush border with a grand entrance that opens to a lagoon. From there, company can head in numerous instructions to go to themed areas of the park.
The park design additionally included a river with what seems to be a ship experience all through the park.
Common Parks & Resorts An artist’s rendering exhibiting the plan for a family-focused resort in Frisco, launched Jan. 11, 2023.
In keeping with Common Parks & Resorts Chairman and CEO Mark Woodbury, who was in Frisco for the announcement Wednesday, the park might be not like another Common park on the earth and they’re “wildly excited” to carry the park to North Texas.
“We’re recognized for creating one-of-a-kind progressive, interactive experiences for the entire household,” Woodbury stated. “Now we have a portfolio of terrific sights that enchantment to younger households world wide. We had an thought to carry all of these collectively and create a vacation spot that’s particularly designed to enchantment to households with younger kids. That is what you see on this illustration now and that is what we hope to carry to Frisco.”
The footprint is about one-quarter the dimensions of the parks in Orlando, scaled smaller to be extra “intimate and fascinating” for youthful company. The company said the theme park can have a totally totally different look, really feel, and scale in comparison with Common’s present parks however will nonetheless carry the identical high quality because the bigger resort locations.
Woodbury stated the park is predicted to be a one-day or two-day expertise and that they plan to additionally construct a 300-room themed resort lodge on the property.
Web page Thompson, president of latest ventures for Common Parks & Resorts, stated Wednesday the corporate purchased 97 acres on the east aspect of the Dallas North Tollway close to Panther Creek Parkway for the development of each the park and themed lodge.
The theme park might be constructed close to the two,500-acre Fields improvement, which incorporates plans for roughly 10,000 houses, the headquarters of the PGA, a golf course and a $500 million Omni resort lodge.
Officers didn’t say what the park might be referred to as or say after they plan to open the park.
UNIVERSAL PARKS TO OPEN YEAR-ROUND HORROR ATTRACTION
Common Parks & Resorts additionally introduced plans Wednesday to construct a horror-themed theme park in Las Vegas that may “carry to life Common’s huge library of basic horror movies and in the present day’s most terrifying tales.”
The park might be open year-round and would be the anchor tenant in a 20-acre enlargement of the Area15 leisure district close to the Las Vegas strip.
“Common has lengthy outlined the horror style with its basic movies that includes iconic characters resembling Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy and the Wolf Man – and redefined trendy horror and suspense tales by way of collaborations with such high-profile filmmakers as Jason Blum, James Wan and Jordan Peele. Solely Common might ignite the joys of and pleasure of this style in full scale and three dimensions,” the company said in a statement.
Credit score: Common Parks & Resorts.
Common is at present constructing Epic Universe, a theme park scheduled to open in the summertime of 2025 as a part of the Common Orlando Resort.
Universal Parks & Resorts is owned by NBCUniversal, which additionally owns this station. Common Parks & Resorts at present operates theme parks and resort properties world wide together with two places in america in Hollywood, California and Orlando, Florida. The corporate additionally operates parks in Osaka, Japan, Sentosa, Singapore and Beijing, China.
