Universal is opening a theme park in Texas for young kids. Here's what it'll look like

dry grass cones litter and *** porta potty. The plot of land off the Dallas north tollway doesn't look great, but Tuesday, Universal ceo came to texas to announce *** plan to bring it to life, *** universal park unlike any other in the world and we're wildly excited pending committee and council approval. Universal will build its sixth theme park and resort in frisco, but if you're hoping for *** doctor, doom's fear fall kinda ride, don't hold your breath. Everything in this park is really being designed for Children under 10, that's our target, our focus right there, paige Thompson is Universal's President of New ventures. In our one on one interview, he told me everyone will be welcome at this park but it will cater to kids featuring character, meet and greets, shows kids rides, food and drink venues and *** family friendly hotel. We've envisioned this park as *** regional park. So we expect visitors will come not only from the state of texas, from outside texas as well, from all the neighboring states and that's why we built the 300 room hotel so that it can turn into *** family vacation. Music. Thank you for believing in frisco Mayor Jeff Cheney's ears with tons of tourism and job creation on the line asked us how fast frisco can move and we told them we're used to moving really fast and so we expect dirt to start moving here sooner than later. The company though won't reveal its actual timetable and again, still needs planning and zoning approval, but certainly we've already kind of giving them feedback and what we want to see here, what we don't want to see, um and the things that we think will bring community support.

Universal Parks & Resorts is bringing a theme park to Texas that will focus on entertaining young children, officials announced Wednesday.The “one-of-a-kind” park in the Dallas suburb of Frisco will include attractions, interactive shows and opportunities for meet-and-greets with characters, the company said in a news release.It is expected to be about a quarter of the size of the company's large Orlando theme parks, according to Page Thompson, the company’s president of new ventures.“Even though it may be smaller in terms of acreage than our other parks, the quality of it, the level, worthy of the Universal name," Thompson said during a news conference in Frisco.Universal Parks & Resorts recently purchased 97 acres, where the park and a 300-room hotel will be located, officials said.Also on Wednesday, the company announced a new permanent entertainment experience in Las Vegas that will “bring to life Universal’s vast library of classic horror films and today’s most terrifying tales,” according to a news release from the company.The company said this is the first time it has created “a permanent horror experience beyond its theme parks.” The experience will occupy a 110,000-square foot space. It will be the anchor tenant in a new 20-acre expansion of the city's AREA15 entertainment district, which opened to the public in 2020.The company didn't give a timetable for when the projects will be completed.Universal Parks & Resorts, part of Comcast NBCUniversal, has theme parks around the world, including Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort in the U.S. In 2021, the company opened a theme park in Beijing, becoming the company's fifth park worldwide. There are also parks in Japan and Singapore.

FRISCO, Texas —

Universal Parks & Resorts is bringing a theme park to Texas that will focus on entertaining young children, officials announced Wednesday.

The “one-of-a-kind” park in the Dallas suburb of Frisco will include attractions, interactive shows and opportunities for meet-and-greets with characters, the company said in a news release.

It is expected to be about a quarter of the size of the company's large Orlando theme parks, according to Page Thompson, the company’s president of new ventures.

“Even though it may be smaller in terms of acreage than our other parks, the quality of it, the level, worthy of the Universal name," Thompson said during a news conference in Frisco.

Universal Parks & Resorts recently purchased 97 acres, where the park and a 300-room hotel will be located, officials said.

Also on Wednesday, the company announced a new permanent entertainment experience in Las Vegas that will “bring to life Universal’s vast library of classic horror films and today’s most terrifying tales,” according to a news release from the company.

The company said this is the first time it has created “a permanent horror experience beyond its theme parks.” The experience will occupy a 110,000-square foot space. It will be the anchor tenant in a new 20-acre expansion of the city's AREA15 entertainment district, which opened to the public in 2020.

The company didn't give a timetable for when the projects will be completed.

Universal Parks & Resorts, part of Comcast NBCUniversal, has theme parks around the world, including Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort in the U.S. In 2021, the company opened a theme park in Beijing, becoming the company's fifth park worldwide. There are also parks in Japan and Singapore.

Universal is opening a theme park in Texas for young kids. Here's what it'll look like

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