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Article: L.A. Firm Makes Deal for Exhibits At London Dome.(Brief Article)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- August 14, 2000
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Los Angeles-based Hyper Entertainment Inc. has beat out 70 competitors to develop attractions and exhibits for the widely criticized Millennium Dome in London.
The dome is Europe's most controversial development in some time, a giant canvas-and-steel structure that was built to host England's major millennium celebration. The question on the minds of many Brits, of course, is what to do with the enormous structure -- which is big enough to contain the Eiffel Tower if it were laid on its side -- now that New Year's Eve has long passed. It's more than an academic question, considering the dome cost $1.2 billion in U.S. dollars to build.
Mike Swinney, ...