Waveyard Development Building Super Water Park
If you are looking for a theme park in Pheonix do not despair, one is coming. Waveyard is developing a 250 million dollar theme park that will offer many different outdoor activities.
There will be a surfing pool that will have waves up to 12 feet, There will be a skatepark, a diving and snorkeling lagoon lined with fiber-optic lights for night dives, a climbing center and ropes course, a series of fly fishing ponds, a mountain bike course and an outdoor amphitheater.
Officials said they are in negotiations for more than 200 acres just outside the Phoenix city limits to combine residential, resort, retail and entertainment venues with a $250 million outdoor super park.
Activities would include surfing, rafting, kayaking, climbing, scuba diving, snorkeling, skateboarding, mountain biking, fly fishing, canoeing, volleyball and boogie boarding. Plans call for a 320-room resort hotel with 150 villas, a 30,000-square-foot conference center, a spa and wellness center, beach, restaurants, a 55,000-square-foot indoor water park, 55,000 square feet of sports and entertainment retail space, 30,000 square feet of office space, an amphitheater, and residential communities.
Waveyard Development LLC was established in 2003 by veteran development and financial partners Richard Mladick and Jerry Hug. via The Business Journal of Phoenix:.
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Comment by Manny on 30 January 2007:
I strongly believe this is exactly what this dry desert needs. Some water. and with WAVEYARD things are finally going to start heating up!! We shall see increased tourism by 100% and revenue that Waveyard will bring will also be astronomical.
Comment by Sam on 17 September 2007:
Here we go again, tax payers funding big business, do your research Mesa residents!
Why should we pay for hotels, residential office space, conference center, wavepark and timeshares?
According to Mr. Mladick (Co-Founder of Waveyard) “Over 70% of people who surf make 50,000 + a year, the highest income per capita of any sport”
(City of Mesa Meeting on 12.5.06)
And what happens to the park that is currently there?
Why do Mesa residents keep giving their hard earned money to developers? They are working with the largest bank in Australia and have went public on the London Stock exchange? (Sounds like the USA ought to be involved in OUR country)
They also have a billion dollars in a fund that was raised in conjunction with the public offering???
Want to support something in your back yard?
Think…….Childcare, group homes, parks, schools, medical care….
We are a desert, take it to the beach!
Comment by Affordable Land on 6 February 2009:
I agree with you Manny, but Sam has some valid points. You can’t have it all. Any large amusement/entertainment developement is in the long-run, good for the area. Somehow we need to balance the pro’s and con’s, and make it good for the community as a whole.