I don't know if I should believe this or not considering the Times Daily seems to be jumping the gun and reporting quick if you will lately. For example they reported Publix is coming to Muscle Shoals but employees don't know about this.

Why spend so much money in a market this size 40 miles off an Interstate Highway?

It never will happen.

Unlikely.  But who would have thought that there are enough golfers, fishers, and other conventions/meetings to keep the Merriott relatively full?

I'm wondering where Florette Alabama is?  Never heard of it. 

Several Shoals leaders unaware of amusement park project

http://www.waff.com/story/2799...usement-park-project

FLORETTE, AL (WAFF) -The news of a faith and music based theme park coming to the Shoals has the area buzzing.

State Representative Lynn Greer said he's been working with a group on a major economic development for the last few months. However, he wouldn't say who or how many jobs are involved.

Shoals Chamber of Commerce President, Steve Holt, said he has learned the project involves an entertainment organization out of Texas called the Dream Vision Company. He said the project would be fantastic if it comes to fruition.

If you're planning on building a multi- million dollar theme park, you're probably going out reach out to the area's leaders long before a public announcement. However, several Shoals leaders had never heard of this project until Friday which raised some eyebrows.

The corporation behind the project, called The DreamVision Company, made similar claims in Texas.

Back in 2013, CEO Rick Silanskas said he would build a theme park and employee thousands of people in Fort Worth.

When WAFF checked in with the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, we were told no theme park was never built, and they didn't know of any plans for one in the future.

The Florida Department of State, where the company was founded said the company didn't file an annual report last year and had been dissolved.

WAFF was able to get in touch with another company handling some of DreamVision's public relations.

They said a press conference will be held Feb. 11 that will go into detail about the proposed theme park.

Copyright 2015 WAFF. All rights reserved.

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?c...lorette&state=AL

Turns out it is a real place but nowhere near the Shoals area. 

I'm still waiting for the water park at Veterans Park. Water slides down Wilson Dam's spillways ought to be fun.

Anywho, I doubt that the financing can be gotten unless the developer puts up a few windmills and solar panels and gets unka Obama to write a check.

there have been plans for a 'water park', in this area, since the early 80s. at one time, there were some bonds issued. i wish i could remember what country issued them. it was going on highway 72 Alt. near the old 'northwest-shoals cc /colbert co. board of education' building... old 'howard brothers'.. if you're an old goat, like me.

WAFF reported on the news that Florida Department of State, where the company was founded, said the company has been dissolved.

"The corporation behind the project, called The DreamVision Company, made similar claims in Texas. Back in 2013, CEO Rick Silanskas said he would build a theme park and employee thousands of people in Fort Worth.
When WAFF checked in with the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, we were told no theme park was never built, and they didn't know of any plans for one in the future".

http://www.waff.com/story/2799...usement-park-project

I'm so excited about the possibility of this God based theme park coming here to the Shoals. We will truly be blessed by millions comming here to do praise God. I feel like this may be the miracle needed to heal the sinful here in the Shoals. What better place for this to happen. Sinners from all over the globe will have a mecca for healing.

https://www.tnvalleytalks.com/t...y=435758330127769163

 I wonder if ole Bill is funding this adventure.  He would have a venue for his cartoons and could save us all.

I would think anybody thinking of purchasing land for something like that would do like Walt Disney and keep them guessing until most if not all the property he required was purchased.

So, I just read the B'ham Business Journal article.  One paragraph caught my attention:

DreamVision, an entertainment company that says it will focus on CGI animation, live action motion pictures, Broadway theatrical productions, television, music and theme park resort destinations, said the park would be privately funded.

Sounds like they might try something like Branson, MO.  That could potentially work here, except that we have world class naysayers. 

Does Dream Vision have any theme parks? I think that answer is no. Correct Me if I am wrong.

From what is showing up in other threads, DreamVision is probably a scam.

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I told you elsewhere, CB, prepare the tar, I'll get the feathers.

I can't either. 

Crusty, that avatar is giving me the creeps. Cut it out! 

I'm building a nature trail.

someone is building a trail to the bank.

As the man said, "show me the money".

Well, I am not running to the bank to invest any money, nor am I too optimistic about the endeavor, but I will certainly listen with an open mind to any endeavor that promises to bring growth and jobs to this area. The designer of the proposal happens to be a former head designer for the Disney World projects, which have been somewhat of a success, and many people ridiculed that endeavor in the late 50's and early 60's when they were proposed. Of course today Orlando and LA love the tax monies and tourist dollars that they bring in.

I am more keen to believe that some nature trail lover will torpedo the project long before the ink ever dries on any proposal. Much like when the golf course project wanted the TVA land. Remember all the hellabaloo that erupted over the trail then?

Though I doubt any theme park ever gets built, I am sure that if it does, there will be no shortage of clowns to supply amusement for the masses.

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I do indeed remember what you call the "hellabaloo" [sic] over the initially proposed RSA golf course location, a location that would have been impossible to pursue in anything like the time frame demanded by Dr. David Bronner, given the multiple regulatory hurdles that would have to be overcome and probably impossible even if there had been time enough. Absent a background in environmental assessment and permitting, it is difficult for anyone to realize the scope of environmental and historical criteria that would have to be legally satisfied in order for the two RSA golf courses to be sited on the reservation lands targeted by RSA and its local "partners." I can assure you that they were monumental and intimidating.

I also remember that we were assured by proponents of the RSA venture that there were NO ALTERNATIVES to building it on the reservation.  Guess what?  It is now completed and functioning in an ALTERNATIVE location!  It most certainly did not get torpedoed by nature lovers!

There is more to that matter than the oversimplification implied by your "hellabaloo."

What is that they say about Texans with big mouths and bold promises and little evidence of performance?  Oh, yes--"All hat and no cattle."

Good chance we have this kind of Texan bluster with this Themparkasaurus thang!

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I just watched their presentation in Texas and I'm even more convinced that it ain't gonna happen.

Just curious, how much of the RSA funds are left?

The company financing this venture is located in: "While Robinson said he has been in business for 20 years, Provident Global Capital was only registered with the Alabama Secretary of State on Feb. 3, according to the Alabama news outlet AL.com. The company listed a post office box as its address in Killeen, Ala., the report said."

Sounds like an Anderson project. They have fireworks and China connections.

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I googled up Provident and folund the following.  Robinson is indeed local (Killen address) and has ties to two investment firms.  Read about it here:

http://www.al.com/news/huntsvi...er_for_shoals_t.html

More DreamVision propaganda for you:

http://www.thedreamvisioncompany.com/press/

Don't miss the part where they announce an affiliation with the Thomas Kinkade Company, the company that continues to market the schlock art mass produced by the alcohol and drug addict who died in 2012 of an overdose of alcohol and Valium.

http://www.theguardian.com/art...e-dark-death-painter

From the link:

<<<<On Tuesday, the coroner's office in Santa Clara, California, announced that the death of Thomas Kinkade, the Painter of Light™, purveyor of kitsch prints to the masses, was caused by an accidental overdose of alcohol and Valium. For good measure, a legal scrap has emerged between Kinkade's ex-wife (and trustee of his estate) and his girlfriend.

Who could have imagined that behind so many contented visions of peace, harmony and nauseating goodness lay just another story of deception, disappointment and depravity, fueled by those ever-ready stooges, Valium and alcohol?>>>>

Kinkade established another linkage with Disney when he visited a Disneyland Hotel and and urinated on a Winnie-the-Pooh figure

http://articles.orlandosentine...inkade-light-talents

Kinkade already has a line of schlock art centered on Disney themes:

http://www.christcenteredmall....ollection-slides.htm

DreamVision paints itself as a wholesome, family-value driven company.  One wonders how that squiaes with the relationship with the Kinkade name and organization.

It's just amazing to me the amount and level of distrust and out right pessimism from so many over something that if true and legit would be such a great thing to the area.  I, like everyone else, don't know if will happen or not.  There are so many questions about why here that could be ask.   Maybe it's because someone has thrown out that it might be Biblically themed?  Personally the only statement that anyone can hang their hat on is that it would be family themed.  

As I said I have no idea if there is anything to it or not but wish instead of the unprecedented amount of skepticism and negativity there would be far more being optimistic and encouraging.  Heck if I was the person thinking about such a major investment in an area that needs such so badly I'd be so turned off at the negativity, distrust, and skepticism when no mention of wanting anything has been made that I'd consider looking for another location that would be far more receptive.   Maybe we will get, in the end, exactly what we seem to want so badly.  Disappointed.

Count me in as one that is optimistic and thankful that someone thinks this area worthy of consideration for such a large endeavor.   I think it's one of the best areas in the Nation to live and call home and maybe someone else shares that thought.  As for it being 40 miles away from the Interstate compared to 3+ Billion that it would cost for the total investment  another 50 to 70 million to extend a connector to this area would be pocket change and potentially something that would be offered IF the thing did turn into fact.

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Count me in as one who has learned enough about  this matter to fully justify plenty of skepticism.  Check out this headline and article from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (highlight emphases mine):

If I had plans for a $3.5 billion project in the area, I don't think that some skepticism from peons like us on a local forum would have any influence on my plans.

Who said:

THAT is an absurd, wild-ass, and indefensible statistic.   If you disagree, then put up the goods.

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I did.  And I was truly astonished to find out that the level of infection was as you reported, although the great majority of "infections" were classified as "
latent." Read up:

<<<What is Latent TB Infection?

Persons with latent TB infection do not feel sick and do not have any symptoms. They are infected with M. tuberculosis, but do not have TB disease. The only sign of TB infection is a positive reaction to the tuberculin skin test or TB blood test. Persons with latent TB infection are not infectious and cannot spread TB infection to others.>>>

http://www.cdc.gov/tb/publicat.../ltbiandactivetb.htm