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Plans have been officially unveiled for a US$3.5bn (€3.1bn, £2.3bn) theme park in Fort Worth, Texas, to be opened by multi-media entertainment company DreamVision. The park, tentatively titled
‘DreamVision Mountain, Dreamscape, Texas’, is to be built on 20sq km (7.8sq m) of land in the Fort Worth area. Expected to open in 2020, the
year-round winter wonderland will include shops, restau- rants, a transportation centre, a performing arts centre, an entertainment version of New York City known as Dreamscape Metropolis, a similar Hollywood version known as Dreamscape
Technology developed by Malcolm Clulow promises year-round snow
Tinseltown, Nadia’s Storybook Land and a Wild West experience. Developers say the winter
wonderland will feature one of
the largest indoor snow expe- riences in the world, offering guests winter sports including skiing, snowboarding and
Robot hotel coming to Japanese theme park
Huis Ten Bosch theme park in Nagasaki, Japan, is soon to open a new hotel staffed almost entirely by robots. The 72-bedroom Henn na Hotel is
scheduled to open on 17 July. The robot staff will provide porter service, room cleaning, front desk management and other services in the hotel, which will also include advanced face-recognition technology for room entry. “In the future, we would like to have
more than 90 percent of hotel services operated by robots,” said company president Hideo Sawada. More:
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AM2.jobs Texas to get US$3.5bn winter wonderland park
bobsledding. Park representa- tives have promised that despite the arid Texas conditions, it will snow at the park. Speaking at a press confer- ence announcing the launch, DreamVision’s chief creative officer, Ron Logan, said: “I can put together a team that can do this, that can make it a reality.” DreamVision has also announced a second theme park project to be launched in north- western Alabama. Both multi-bil- lion dollar theme parks will be developed by DreamVision CEO Rick Silanskas, developed in part- nership with Bryan Robinson, CEO of Provident Global Capital. Continued on back cover
Smithsonian plans first international site in the UK
The US-based Smithsonian Institute is working to finalise a deal to open its first international location at the site of the former Olympic Stadium in London. London’s mayor Boris Johnson and
developers for the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park site have already secured £33m (US$50m, €44m) in private contributions for the proposed Smithsonian, which would help anchor the new ‘Olympicopolis’ site upon its opening in 2021. The 40,000sq ft (3,700sq m) Smithso-
nian gallery would be part of the Olymp- icopolis educational and cultural quarter being developed at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London.
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Olympicopolis is part of London’s legacy plans
“It would be a massive coup to attract the Smithsonian Institution to east London,” said Boris Johnson, who first proposed the collaboration. More:
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