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Wasaga Beach was promised a major waterfront redevelopment with a monorail:
Globe and Mail article - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070816.wwasaga16/BNStory/National/Ontario/
August 16, 2007 at 3:38 AM EDT
Two brothers who started out with an ice cream parlour in Wasaga Beach 17 years ago are poised to radically transform the popular resort community with a $350-million development.
Dov and Armand Levy's plan includes seven hotels, several condos, retail shops and services, 10 themed restaurants, a variety of upscale bistros, a conference facility, a full service spa, and an indoor amusement park that would offer skiing and snowboarding year round.
A monorail will connect the 10-hectare (25-acre) project, to be built by Blue Beach Avenue Corp., with parking on the perimeter.
To accommodate the potential visitor crush, for the project’s proposed 400,000 square foot shopping plaza and indoor theme park, is a monorail to help bring them in from an 8,000 spot parking lot approximately three kilometres away.http://www.dcnonl.com/article/id24066
"It's supposed to be a New Orleans theme," said Patterson about the project, adding Main St. would be replaced with Bourbon St.http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/281579
"It was almost like Disney has decided to move to Wasaga Beach, and who would say no to that?" asked Trudie McCrea, manager of the Wasaga Beach Chamber of Commerce who attended the unveiling of the plan on Monday night.
...They hope to have the entire project completed within five years.
"I'm nervously excited about it, because it is a huge, huge development," Mr. Patterson said. "It's a major change to the community, but for the most part where they are developing is already developed. It is just old."
The mayor noted that, for instance, the developers have purchased a rundown old mall area that will be gutted and turned into a New Orleans-themed retail area.
He said the Levys have lined up investors to fund the project, and that town officials have met with them....
...The mayor said minor rezoning would be needed for the project. Council would only have to approve the sale of the land and the minor rezoning, he said. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070816.wwasaga16/BNStory/National/Ontario/
Wasaga Beach Developer Bankrupt
April 26, 2010
Bad news for anyone in Wasaga Beach looking forward to a 500 million dollar development at Beach Area's 1 and 2, and for businesses at Beach Area 1.
Mayor Cal Patterson says that Blue Beach Corporation has declared bankruptcy...http://www.radioowensound.com/news_item.php?NewsID=23788