[CPEO-MEF] Oz project (at Sunflower AAP) killed by vote

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

from the Olathe News, Kansas
October 5, 2001

YELLOW BRICK ROAD BLOCK? OZ DIES
by Gerald Hay
<ghay@olathedailynews.com
The death bell was sounded for Oz Thursday.

The knell for Oz Entertainment Co. came in a two-part motion approved
following a two-hour, 12-minute executive session of the Johnson County
Commission with Don Jarret, its legal counsel. First, the motion
rescinded and canceled the $168,300 financial review and feasibility
study the commission had approved last month. It went on to "decline
further study or review of the redevelopment proposed as submitted by Oz
Entertainment Company." 

In short, the action basically killed plans to build a $861 million
theme park and resort on the former Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant in DeSoto.

...

for the entire story, see
http://www.olathedailynews.com/ODNNews/10-5-Story2.html
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 222B View St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
lsiegel@cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org

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