Looks like NYC has some competition.
Note: Financing will be mostly through EB-5.
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Over the past three years, Valdes, his brother and his two sons have quietly developed a series of plans to design, build and finance a monumental theme-park attraction in South Florida. Valdes, 56, says they have shopped their idea during meetings with numerous politicians and government officials, at first hoping to receive approval to build at PortMiami, then Fort Lauderdale’s Swimming Hall of Fame, then the vacant lot behind the AmericanAirlines Arena.
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Rigoberto Valdes, has been seriously involved in developing a series of plans to design, build and finance a monumental theme-park attraction in South Florida hoping to receive approval to build it on the vacant lot behind the AmericanAirlines Arena.
The structure isn’t actually a Ferris wheel and it would rotate glass-skinned pods large enough to host a small party on a track around a 2,000-ton steel oval mounted atop four legs that dive directly into the water, according to which New York engineer Malcolm McLaren and would cost $350 million. It would include a restaurant and bar about 250 feet up in the air, plus a retail-lined walkway beneath the wheel connecting Museum Park and Parcel B behind the AmericanAirlines Arena. The walkway would be 40 or 50 feet above the slip, tall enough to allow a number of yachts to continue to dock along the seawall, McLaren said.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/loca...le4453373.html
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