A water park vacation resort chain with a record of fascination in the Fredericksburg location is on the lookout to build a park in the Thornburg region of Spotsylvania County.
Kalahari Vacation resort and Conventions submitted a rezoning request with the county Wednesday.
The business is in search of to rezone approximately 135 acres involving U.S. 1 and Interstate 95 from agricultural to planned development professional, in accordance to a county information launch.
The home is in a specified large-development region around the county’s southernmost I-95 interchange.
According to the county, Kalahari is wanting to build a 267,429-sq.-foot indoor “waterpark & loved ones amusement heart,” a 10-acre out of doors “resort pool/waterpark,” a 900-home lodge and a 156,278-square-foot conference centre on the house.
Spotsylvania Board of Supervisors Chairman Tim McLaughlin is cautiously optimistic about Kalahari coming to the county.
“We are normally prepared to operate with companies in an work to explore no matter if a undertaking is a good fit for Spotsylvania, with optimistic impacts on the county and its residents,” he said in the news release. “While we are absolutely intrigued by this proposal, it is important to understand that the venture ought to continue to go by the county’s rezoning course of action.”
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The Scheduling Fee will tackle the rezoning ask for first, a system that will contain a community hearing. The Board of Supervisors has the final say on the make a difference.
If the resort arrives to fruition, it would match into a string of latest substantial improvement tasks in the county—from a 1.5 million-panel solar facility below building in western Spotsylvania to the four-tale, 450,000-sq.-foot Fredericksburg VA Health Care Center being crafted amongst Courthouse Street and U.S. 1.
On its site, Wisconsin-dependent Kalahari says its resorts “deliver a outside of-expectations waterpark vacation resort and meeting knowledge all under a person roof.”
If the corporation opens a resort in Spotsylvania, it would mark the sixth these types of facility opened by Kalahari. The organization operates two resorts in Wisconsin, a person in Ohio and a further in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains.
In 2020, the firm opened a vacation resort in Spherical Rock, Texas, which was touted in a Organization Wire tale as “the new dwelling to America’s Greatest Indoor Waterpark Vacation resort with 223,000 sq. feet of wet-and-wild enjoyment.”
If Kalahari’s Spotsylvania vacation resort opens according to ideas, its indoor waterpark would exceed the dimension of the Texas facility by far more than 40,000 sq. ft.
Kalahari has flirted with the place prior to.
In late 2007, the organization declared its intention to make a resort and meeting middle upcoming to the Fredericksburg Expo Centre in Fredericksburg’s Rejoice Virginia South.
Metropolis officers even traveled to Kalahari’s Sandusky, Ohio, facility as interest in the challenge grew. But the world wide money crisis ensued, leaving Kalahari not able to finance the approximated $260 million park.
Several years later on, in 2012, Kalahari started wanting at constructing a vacation resort in the Poconos. That park opened in 2015.
Scott Shenk: 540/374-5436