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ZoSo
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 Posted: Nov 28, 2010 11:24 am Post subject: Canadian Cable Park |
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There were plans a couple years ago to build a cable park around Winnipeg...however, as many of you know, it fell through.
A few months ago I was told by a friend in the industry that someone else was working on a cable park just outside of the city...but I was sworn to secrecy + I didn't want to spread any rumours.
This time...however...it's legit:
| Quote: | A new all-season fun park is coming to town — and its developers are doing it without any government funding, incentives or tax breaks.
Adrenalin Adventures opens soon with a huge, high-speed tubing hill. Runs will be 200 metres long and the hill will be groomed and iced for speed.
In summer, the site will be a wakeboard park. A cable system will be used in place of power boats to pull skiers.
The $5-million park is the brainchild of Jason and Michelle Rohs.
"We've got a young family. We're now in that head space where you're looking for things for the kids to do, and our entrepreneurial minds started thinking," said Rohs.
He said there's little of the kind of fun park they'll offer in the capital region outside of Fun Mountain.
"We want to create something Winnipeg can be proud of," Rohs said.
The site will also include a rope course and artificial beach.
The tubing hill, complete with a tow rope, is first up. Rohs hopes it can open by Dec. 23.
Construction began four days ago and will run 24/7 until completion. The site is on the west Perimeter between Roblin Boulevard and Wilkes Avenue, inside the RM of Headingley.
The hill will be 12 metres high and about 30.5 metres wide. The tubing hill will have separate lanes so people will not be chaotically running into each other. There will be a minimum of five lanes. Tubes will be supplied.
As of Saturday, after just three days of construction, the hill was already 4.5 metres high. In the future, Rohs plans to place a skating rink on the site's man-made lake.
The lake will use water from two on-site wells and water will be purified. It will include a beach.
In summer, it will be the first cable wakeboard park in Canada. Boarders will be pulled along by an overhead cable system. However, the four-hectare lake will not be set up for wakeboarding until 2012. There will also be a smaller wakeboard-training lake.
"This is absolutely huge in the wakeboarding industry," said Rohs. He has already been offered to host the world cup of wakeboarding in 2012. The wakeboarding world cup has never been held in North America.
"We saw a need for a faster, more exciting water park," he said.
The site is designed to give the owners the option of enclosing the man-made lake to create a 9,300-square-metre indoor water park in future.
Rohs and his wife are in real estate and development with their company, Jaymic Development. Previous projects included a 16-lot subdivision in Charleswood called Brittany Drive.
"We're a mom-and-pop development company. We're not going to compete with Creswin or Shindico," Rohs said.
The site is 20 hectares. There is no government financing, other investors or partners, he said.
More information is available at www.adrenalinemb.com |
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/year-round-fun-park-planned-110930154.html
http://www.adrenalinemb.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=13 |
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miller
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| Posted: Nov 28, 2010 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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how much is a via train from toronto to winnipeg  |
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miller
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JB_CANSKATE
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| Posted: Nov 28, 2010 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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How can they say its the first cable in Canada though, beach club in Montreal has been around for a long time. I'm going to have to road trip out there after it opens.. |
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ZoSo
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| Posted: Nov 28, 2010 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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| JB_CANSKATE wrote: |
How can they say its the first cable in Canada though, beach club in Montreal has been around for a long time. I'm going to have to road trip out there after it opens.. |
Yeah I noticed that too.
WFP doesn't exactly have the most accurate reporting. No where on the actual site does it say that it's the first Canadian cable park...that's just a WFP error.
2012 feels like a long way off...but it's nice to hear they're actually going to be building this. |
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JB_CANSKATE
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| Posted: Nov 28, 2010 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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ZoSo, thats cool for you guys one i'd like to get out there. It would take let time to drive to McCorrmicks in Tampa then to drive out there but one day i'll be making that trek.
Someone NEEDs to build one in Toronto. WTF   |
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BryceBell
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| Posted: Nov 29, 2010 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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| I cannot wait for this.. super excited |
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price.dan
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Guy
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| Posted: Nov 30, 2010 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| JB_CANSKATE wrote: |
How can they say its the first cable in Canada though, beach club in Montreal has been around for a long time. I'm going to have to road trip out there after it opens.. |
Quebecs not part of Canada... Didn't you here? |
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miller
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ZoSo
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| Posted: Dec 09, 2010 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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| miller wrote: | I was just told it will be open spring 2011  |
Yeah I saw that too. I know the original idea was to have the park open by this summer...hopefully everything works out and it happens.
Also, anyone who makes the trip out to the cable park is also welcome to come and hang out at our cabin...just got a brand new waverunner last summer, as well as a 16' runabout, a hot tub, lots of room and lots of butter:
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BryceBell
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| Posted: Dec 09, 2010 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| ZoSo, what lake is that? |
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miller
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Raven
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| Posted: Dec 09, 2010 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| miller wrote: | price.dan, I just got roof racks so I will drive.
We leave the evening before they open. |
quote="miller"]price.dan, I just got roof racks so I will drive.
We leave the evening before they open.[/quote]
who's excited........^this guy
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