{"id":1004018551,"date":"2010-03-24T08:42:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T16:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004018551"},"modified":"2022-12-09T00:28:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T08:28:32","slug":"300m-legoland-clears-another-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/300m-legoland-clears-another-hurdle\/","title":{"rendered":"$300M Legoland Clears Another Hurdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 24, 2010<br \/>\nBy Allison Landa, News Editor<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004018552\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"highslide\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2010\/03\/eyeliam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004018552\" data-attachment-id=\"1004018552\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/300m-legoland-clears-another-hurdle\/eyeliam\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2010\/03\/eyeliam.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,375\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"eyeliam\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Courtesy Flickr Creative Commons user eyeliam&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2010\/03\/eyeliam.jpg?w=500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2010\/03\/eyeliam.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"eyeliam\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1004018552\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004018552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy Flickr Creative Commons user eyeliam<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Florida is on tap for another vacation destination. Gov. Charlie Crist and the Florida Cabinet have approved the use of state lands for Merlin Entertainments to build a Legoland family theme park on 150 acres of land at the 145-acre Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven.<\/p>\n<p>The new park is scheduled to open in 2011 and bring an estimated 1,000 new jobs to Polk County with a $300 million projected investment over the next five years. It will be the fifth Legoland worldwide and only the second in North America; the first is Legoland California in Carlsbad, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe addition of Legoland Florida to our state\u2019s already impressive list of attractions will serve only to enhance the Sunshine State as a travel destination,\u201d Crist said while announcing the news. \u201cThe beauty and splendor of the historic Cypress Gardens site will once again fascinate visitors and residents alike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Best known for its botanical gardens, Cypress Gardens was also home to the Splash Island Waterpark until it closed in September 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCypress Gardens is known as Florida\u2019s first theme park and has been an integral part of Central Florida\u2019s history since it opened in 1936,\u201d state Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Michael W. Sole said in a statement. \u201cThe purpose of this agreement is to both create jobs and maintain the cultural integrity of the land and ensure it retains its scenic and historical value.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Merlin Entertainments operates more than 50 attractions and hotels which serve more than 30 million visitors in 12 different countries across three continents \u2013 Europe, North America and Asia \u2013 and employ more than 13,000 staff members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida is on tap for another vacation destination. Gov. Charlie Crist and the Florida Cabinet have approved the use of state lands for Merlin Entertainments to build a Legoland family theme park on 150 acres of land at the 145-acre Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":936,"featured_media":1004018552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21751,21742],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004018551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hotel","category-latest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>$300M Legoland Clears Another Hurdle - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/300m-legoland-clears-another-hurdle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"$300M Legoland Clears Another Hurdle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Florida is on tap for another vacation destination. 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