Let’s see, a $750m. development promising 4000 jobs on the site of an old cigarette plant. And at least $100m. in government-arranged financing. To start.
And what would the Carolina USA Performance Park be? Why 2.4 million square feet of everything — auto-parts manufacturing, electric-car builder, candy plant, restaurants, movie studios, music studios, schools, antique car restoration, aqua/hydroponics research, and a 3,500-seat TV broadcast theater. Oh, and three million people a year would visit Carolina USA Performance Park.
And how often has Stargate Worldwide pulled off this sort of thing on remotely this kind of scale? Never. How many times has Stargate Worldwide failed to pull this sort of thing off? Evidently one.
There was a 2008 attempt to turn 441 Speedway in Dublin, GA into something to be called the Dublin USA Music & Motorsports Park. However the site is still operating as a stock car dirt track with no mention of the “Rodeo tuff-cowboy shows, monster trucks, lumberjacks, and televised races” announced by Stargate in November 2007.
In addition, Stargate makes no mention of the Dublin racetrack effort on its website. However in 2008 Stargate president Terry Keeney registered the georgiausaspeedway.com domain. According to registrant and Laurens County property records Stargate was then operating out of a 1950 cinder-block building valued at $16,135.
Update: Petting zoo. I forgot the petting zoo. And the water park. And now we’re at 4500 jobs.
