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Article: LEGOLAND deal collapse - reaction.
- Article from:
- Scarborough Evening News (Scarborough, England)
- Article date:
- March 27, 2008
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Scarborough was to be the location for the UK's first indoor LEGOLAND attraction.
David Rhodes, managing director of Benchmark Leisure, the firm behind the [pounds sterling]150 million Sands development and council officers had been in negotiation with Merlin Entertainments - Europe's largest visitor attraction operator for months, about bringing a LEGOLAND Discovery Centre to the town.
Councillors and officials had been flown across to Berlin to see the LEGOLAND Discovery Centre there, presentations had been made at several public meetings and an exhibition was set up in the Town Hall.
A special planning meeting had been organised for April 10 ...