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Article: Plans for Lego's fantasy park prompt real competition between states. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- July 31, 1993
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CHERRY HILL PENINSULA, Va. _ To be here or not to be here. That is the question.
Whether Lego toys _ the most renowned export from Denmark since Hamlet _ should build a $100 million theme park on this scenic, wooded promontory on the Potomac River, 30 miles south of Washington, D.C., or take its famous plastic building blocks to a site in southern California.
Few projects have inspired such passionate international competition. Selected by Lego from a whopping 600 site proposals in North America, the two finalists are joined in economic battle.
Talk about slings and arrows!
California officials have reportedly eaten pickled fish ``in the interests of the ...
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...Last week's decision by Lego Systems Inc. to build a theme park outside London does not close the possibility that Lego might locate a theme park in Prince William County, County Executive ...
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