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Officials announced Thursday that Dinosaur City, a dinosaur mega-attraction, is planned to open in the summer of 2008 in Montgomery County.
It's the brainchild of "Dino" Don Lessem, author of 47 books, builder of traveling dinosaur exhibits and columnist for a children's magazine. Lessem projects that the planned $50 million-dollar Dinosaur City would attract about 100,000 visitors in its first year.
The park will include:
Inside, visitors can view exhibits showing what the world would have looked like millions of years ago. An animal park will display creatures that roamed the Earth during the era of the dinosaurs and remain today.
Lessem envisions school field trips, collaboration with universities and televising dinosaur digs as some of the educational benefits that could come out of the project.
Dinosaur City will be located in the county's improvement district, and so will fund about half of its expenditures through incentives. The other half will come from investors.
Many residents in Montgomery County are unaware of the planned park, but it is expected to become a major attraction and bring in substantial tourism revenue.
