Wonder if they serve drinks upon disembarking the ark?

Wonder if they serve drinks upon disembarking the ark?

 

Nice. :lol:

Thoughts?

 

http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/region_northern_kentucky/New-N.Ky.-theme-park-plans-unveiled

 

Governor Steve Beshear joined Ark Encounter LLC and Answers in Genesis, the developers of the Creation Museum, with details of "Ark Encounter". The theme park is expected to be built in Grant County near Veteran's Cemetery in Williamstown, but multiple sites are being considered.

 

A full-scale wooden Noah's Ark will be built in the park and include associated museums, theaters, amenities, event venues and outdoor parking. Preliminary indications are that the park could draw as many as 1.6 million guests per year and would cost $150 million to build, all privately funded.

 

The theme park will create approximately 900 new jobs. Ark Encounter is expected to take three years to build and open in the spring of 2014.

New details.

 

http://www.kypost.com/dpps/news/region_northern_kentucky/Noah%27s-Ark-theme-park-faces-rough-waters_5590510

I read where the park will be similar to the one in Hong Kong.

Sounds like we will be funding it. I'll be really surprised if this makes it past the ACLU and the atheists.

Is this park a for profit venture? I'm assuming it is, then giving it tax breaks would not be a violation. It would be treated as any other business venture being wooed by the state.

Sounds like we will be funding it. I'll be really surprised if this makes it past the ACLU and the atheists.

 

:confused:

 

Have you read up on anything about it? It is going to be privately funded.

 

This thing is already underway so apparently it did make it through.

That’s Cary Summers, the lead consultant on the project. Summers predicts the park will attract 1.6 million visitors annually and employ around 900 full and part-time staff.

 

“In year one, because of the spin-offs of the operations – which is hotels and restaurants and all the ripple effect as we call it – it actually produces 14,000 jobs the first year,” said Summers. “And that’s because of the ripple effect. Now that doesn’t count all the construction jobs that will be going on. Construction of this project takes between 30 and 36 months.”

 

Those job numbers are music to the ears of Grant County Judge-Executive Darrell Link.

 

“Our unemployment rate hovers around 10 percent – those that we can recognize,” said Link. “And to bring the jobs and opportunity that this project is coming to our town and our community, just extends my Thanksgiving week a whole another week!”

 

Link, Summers and Zovath all spoke at a news conference at the State Capitol, where Gov. Steve Beshear revealed the state is extending performance-based tax incentives to the park. Similar tax breaks helped developers expand the Kentucky Speedway at Sparta to bring a NASCAR Sprint Cup race to Kentucky next July. Asked by reporters about using taxpayer dollars for a religious theme park, Beshear – a former attorney general – expressed confidence in its legality.

 

“We have reviewed this from a legal standpoint and the application complies with our laws,” said Beshear. “There is nothing even remotely unconstitutional about a for-profit organization coming in and investing $150 million to create jobs in Kentucky and bring tourism to Kentucky.”

 

Will other religions get the same treatment if they want to open theme parks in Kentucky?

 

“You know, each application stands on its own,” said Beshear. “And whatever groups want to come in here and talk about investing and creating tourist attractions, we’re certainly open to talking with them.”

 

Gov. Beshear says, “This is a huge deal.” He says project developers predict 80 percent of visitors to the park will come from out of state and the economic impact on Kentucky will be around $214 million the first year of operation, rising to $250 million by year five. If all goes as planned, the park will open in the spring of 2014

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Sounds pretty awesome.

:confused:

 

Have you read up on anything about it? It is going to be privately funded.

 

This thing is already underway so apparently it did make it through.

They're a long way from getting it done. They're still trying to buy up the property for it, according to the article.

They're a long way from getting it done. They're still trying to buy up the property for it, according to the article.

 

According to who I talked to today, the deal is going through.

I can't imagine this succeeding.

I can't imagine this succeeding.

You don't think they'll be able to keep the project afloat?

:confused:

 

Have you read up on anything about it? It is going to be privately funded.

 

This thing is already underway so apparently it did make it through.

 

There are a couple news outlets reporting that there will be some tax benefits from the state.

 

LEO Weekly on Ark Park

 

I also feel like I read somewhere that they want to build a replica of the Tower of Babel. Isn't the point of that story not to build such a tower. Sometimes I wonder if these guys really read that book...

I also feel like I read somewhere that they want to build a replica of the Tower of Babel. Isn't the point of that story not to build such a tower.

You know, I was thinking the same thing. What are they going to do, put a disclaimer on it, in case God doesn't like it.