American Dream Miami would have over 3 million square feet of retail, about 2 million square feet of entertainment and 2,000 hotel rooms. That's larger than the Mall of America in Minnesota. As previously mentioned, the entertainment would include a theme park, the world’s largest indoor ski slope measuring 180,000 square feet, 800 feet long and 16 stories high plus an ice climbing wall, a water park, a giant observation wheel, a submarine lake with marine life such as sharks and manta rays, an Art Deco village with performance halls and a 3,000-seat movie theater, an ice skating rink, a museum, bowling, and mini golf. Gorlow said the previously mentioned sea lion show and residential units would not be part of the project. It would be developed all at once, he added.
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11 comments:
What, no Atlantis simulation?
What? No sea lion shows? Come on. That is not world class.
Ye Gads! !Don't we have enough entertainment and gridlock now??
What? No zombie village?
I wonder if this is what my grandparents thought in the 20's when Merrick put forward his "Venice in Florida" on what was bare Pineland and a citrus grove out on the edge of nowhere.. . What a pie in the sky dream ... of course he wasn't looking for public handouts having already used his county commission position to make sure every road built in Dade led to his land..
Almost a hundred years later we still have the rube politicians who open the check book for every billionaire hustler who spins them a tall tale and puts a little coin in the re-election till. ..What surprises me is these billionaires who own cash cows like a pro sport franchise still claim with a straight face their projects can not be possible without millions in public subsidies.
On the other hand, maybe that's how they got to be billionaires...taking advantage of rubes.
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There is no stopping the gravy train -- and idiotic schemes -- so long as there are suckers willing to finance and insurance is available. It is what Miami does best.
What a nightmare. This is so over the top it boggles the mind! I can just imagine the conversation among the developers.....
"Why don't we build this in Miami"
"Great idea, promise them jobs and they'll approve anything"
"Will they give us tax breaks and financing?"
"Of course they will. Did you see the deal Loria got for the Marlins? Don't forget how much they are paying for that crazy thing on the waterfront that looks like a bobby pin. Show them shiny buildings and the promise of jobs and they'll fall all over themselves to help"
"Sounds good. And, if the climate scientists are right, by the time we want to sell it, it will be waterfront property"
Two things
What could go wrong
Why can't someone open their wallets and build a new animal care and control?
Got to admit, this thing sounds awesome...
No one has to admit that this "too big to fail" complex will be awesome. A spewing volcano deserves the word awesome. This Everglades-killing shopping complex will compete with Sawgrass, Aventura, Dolphin Mall, Dadeland, etc. Stores leave in search of new developments creating shopping dead zones in older neighborhoods.
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