April 13, 2007
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Snow skiing in Tarrant county?
Wow. There’s a concept for you.
Turns out the CoolZone Winterplex is a serious project on the books, and one of the people involved is ex-Congressman Dick Armey, and the design team is one that has built for Disney and Universal. The idea is to build a 250′ “mountain” as the primary feature of a resort on a piece of land not far from Alliance airport, so that winter sports will be available year-round:
Resembling an alpine skiing village and featuring first-rate hotel
accommodations, fine dining and retail stores, the Coolzone Winterplex
will offer the level of entertainment expected from a world-class theme
park. The park’s main attraction is a 60-acre plus, 20-story outdoor
ski and snowboard mountain which will be surfaced with Britons award
winning Snowflex® surface system that mimics real packed powder and
provides qualities and conditions like those of mountain snow. The
mountain will be complete with chair lifts, a snowboard park with
competition half pipe, toboggans, and snow tubing. In addition to
catering to extreme sports enthusiasts, the park will also feature
activities for the entire family including two ice rinks, an outdoor
ice trail, a winter wonderland for children with snow, an outdoor
concert venue, rock climbing, and rides.
At first blush it sounds like a totally goofy idea, but the more I mull it over, the goof factor fades. The Metroplex is a huge market base for skiers…thousands of people from here flock to slopes in New Mexico, Colorado, etc. every winter. What do you wanna bet those people would be eager to be able to ski at home betweentimes? Plus there are all of us who’d rather like to try skiing but are reluctant to pop the necessary bucks to buy a ski trip. And let’s not forget the ferocious heat of this area…..snow in July?
I’m so there!
Tell you one thing that really frosts me, and not in a good way, and that’s how it’s being promoted as being in DALLAS.
‘Scuse me, if it’s around Alliance Airport, it’s in the FORT WORTH area, not Big Dreadful.
Comments (4)
It does sound cool (pardon the pun) but I doubt serious skiers would use it, except perhaps to amuse their children in non-skiing seasons. Maybe skiers are a different breed from other athletes I know, but most of ‘em are pretty snobbish about their sports, and to have it reduced to a Disney type complex would seem to trivialize it just a bit too much.
But for people who don’t ski, as you say, it’d be great. And for a society that can do anything, anytime, anywhere – well, why not skiing in July in Forth Worth?
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I was thinking perhaps to keep their skills honed? If one goes for nine months without skiing, surely one would need to get up to speed the first time, so to speak, but if one can ski even at such a minimal level throughout the year, it’d keep the skiing skill sharp.
Plus, to teach their children to ski at a comparatively nominal cost.
I like it, I’ll go watch!! And it’s cool. Silly but fun. OK with me. If Dubai can do it, TEXAS can!!!!
Is there something like this in DUBAI???