Return to Nicholas Johnson's Coralville Rain Forest Web Site
 
 

Note: Check this piece on the blog, link above, to get the supporting links within it; and see link to earlier item that day, "Earthpork."

Second, try to get more public money.

Third, spend 10 years snowing and stringing along various communities on your idea. Make sure the big newspaper in the state is in your back pocket and refuses to print anything other than your press releases and the occasional minor criticism by a rogue reporter.

Finally, just make shit up:

    Earthpark officials said they expect the center to turn a profit of between $2-5 million a year.
 

What? Do they plan to attach a casino onto the side of the thing?

posted by Editor @ 11:58 AM