A little beach front resort town in Canada, Wasaga Beach, one of Ontario’s fastest-growing is proposing to build the country’s first indoor snowdome that will include a mix of retail and leisure facilities according to local media reports.
The Blue Beach Avenue Corporation intends to complete a proposed area redevelopment over the next three years. Once the construction is completed, there will be 1,044 hotel rooms, 120 one bedroom condominium villas (754 sq. ft.), 144 two bedroom condominium villas (1,292 sq. ft.), 1,800 parking spaces, a variety of retail shops and services, ten themed restaurants, a variety of upscale bistro type restaurants, a conference facility, a full service spa, an indoor amusement park, a bowling alley and a variety of other exciting activities including the indoor ski slope, all at the waters edge. In order to ensure a safe environment for guests, the existing street that separates the 14km (nine mile) long beach from the strip will be closed and made into a pedestrian walkway.
Today, Wasaga Beach attracts two million visitors a year, but the ever-growing popularity highlights the area’s need for upscale accommodations to retain an increasingly affluent clientele. The Georgian Bay resort town of 16,000, is striving to shed its reputation for tackiness and wild parties. Wasaga Beach had a reputation and a quality family holiday destination through much of the twentieth century. However in 2003 an new an unwanted reputation was caused by the arrival of 35,000 young revelers to the ‘Wakestock’ beach party. The excesses at that led the council to ban future events and they are now seeking to reinvigorate the community with this new development.
Give me a break.
In who’s dream did “Wasaga Beach had a reputation as a quality family holiday destination through much of the twentieth century.”
If council had it’s way……they would kick out the provincial park, sell off the real estate to developers, put up a fence and have the place to themselves.
The dome is a joke.