Legoland Stuck In The Mud??

Ouch... I go out of town for a couple of weeks to work with the Boy Scouts and Legoland goes to pot...

Or as Dave Claflin, vice president of marketing for RED Development put it, Legoland, got stuck in the mud, when he described the status of tax increment financing application for a proposed Legoland theme park in Lee's Summit.

"We still plan on it, but right now, we have to get everything in order," Claflin said. "It's come to a standstill. We sure might be able to pull it out of the mud, but it's going to take a lot more effort."

Lee's Summit's director of development, Greg Foss said RED and Legoland will now have to re-apply for the tax incentive package, which includes consideration by the city's Tax Increment Financing Commission.

Both Claflin and Foss agree that the time frame for when, or if, the proposal comes back to the committee is unknown.

I hope this isn't another instance of a small group of Grinches causing a big enough stink in the newspapers and city council to scare developers away from Lee's Summit. If so, it won't take many more Legolands to convince developers that Lee's Summit is anti-development and not worth the trouble. Lee's Summit is already well below what we should be in terms of development for a city of our size and wealth.

For more information on Legoland check out the Examiner's Legoland project hits roadblock and Kansas City Business Journal's Lee's Summit cancels Legoland hearing

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