A property owner in downtown Vegas proposes a rooftop amusement park.
A huge LED canopy covering Fremont Street was merely one of many extraordinary schemes brought forward to invigorate the heart of Las Vegas. Distinctive among them, like a system of Venetian canals envisioned by Steve Wynn, and life-size copies of the Titanic and Starship Enterprise, is that the Fremont Street Experience eventually materialized.
If a rooftop amusement park, the most recent proposition for Fremont Street, matches the canopy into practicality is up to chance. This is what Rohit Joshi, the entrepreneur behind Neonopolis amusement complex, is planning to reveal at the International Council of Shopping Centers Convention next week.
"We no longer need malls," Joshi stated in an interview with KSNV-TV/Las Vegas. "Malls are becoming outdated, and I believe this is how downtown is going to expand."
The 250,000-square-foot Neonopolis shopping mall, perched above a city parking garage, is nestled east of the canopy. This venue, inaugurated in 2002, was once the dwelling place of Jillian's restaurant and presently entertains the Heart Attack Grill, Dick's Last Resort, a Denny's, and 11 additional tenants, including an axe-throwing range dubbed Axehole.
Joshi, who led a development crew that purchased Neonopolis from Prudential Real Estate for $25 million in 2006, revealed to KXNV that the amusement park will set him back approximately $300 million. He emphasized that each ride would be financed and administered by the tenants themselves.
He estimates that the park will showcase two rollercoasters, a skydiving simulator, and a zipline by its debut this fall.
Bemusement Park
It's worth highlighting that Neonopolis is perilously situated by the entrance to SlotZilla. That's the 77-foot-tall zipline, racing along Fremont Street Experience since 2014.
Atop the Strat, just two miles from Neonopolis, flaunts its own rooftop amusement park featuring four rides, including a skydiving simulator 855 feet up.
What's potentially detrimental to Joshi's dream is the moniker he's opted for: "Mini Disni." He claims that craftily misspelling it will discourage NASA from taking legal action for trademark infringement.
Joshi's track record includes a series of defunct projects. Among them, the Silver Star movie studio scandalized the town board of Pahrump, Nev., prompting the resignation of their city manager, and a 900-acre housing, retail, and sports complex that never saw the light in Winter Springs, Fla.
Both of these ideas were introduced by Joshi in 1999.
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