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Schlitterbahn Vacation Village is a resort complex scheduled to open in summer 2009 in Kansas City, Kansas. It was announced in September 2005 by Schlitterbahn Waterparks. The 370-acre (1.5 km2), $750 million development will include a nearly 40 acre waterpark, which will be Schlitterbahn's fourth waterpark and its first outside of the state of Texas. (In comparison, Oceans of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri occupies 60 acres.) The project will also include 1,500 guest rooms (including a hotel, cabins and a "Treehaus Resort"), 750,000 square feet (70,000 m2) of retail space, a ¾ mile covered river walk, and the "Transportainment River System," which transports visitors around the resort via a manmade river.
Groundbreaking took place September 18, 2007 on the land currently occupied by the Wyandotte County Fairgrounds and the Unified Government courthouse annex, across Interstate 435 from the Kansas Speedway and Village West. Due in part to the current economic situation, the project was scaled back into phases. Phase I, scheduled to open in the summer of 2009, will feature an outdoor water park. Other phases of the project are scheduled to open in 2010 and 2011.
2009 Water Park
The water park opening in Phase I will include more than a dozen water attractions.
A list of the attractions scheduled to open in Summer 2009:
A map of the Phase I attractions can be found here.
References
- ^ Schlitterbahn Vacation Village | Fact Sheet
- ^ Schlitterbahn Water Park On Schedule To Open
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