The circuit of Spa-Francorchamps is set to become a major year-round attraction featuring a leisure and theme park, a show stage, and a resort. This news was presented at MIPIM, the world’s largest trade fair for commercial real estate which is currently being hosted in Cannes, France.
Details are scarce, but it seems like a theme park emphasizing on speed, mobility and green technology will be built near the famous circuit. The site will also include a new museum, most likely dedicated to the racing history of the Spa-Francorchamps. Concerts, shows and other events could be organized when no racing events are being run.
Additionally, an eco-accommodation is planned, from where visitors could enjoy hiking and biking in the extensive forests and rolling hills surrounding the circuit. The project will cost €61 million and is backed by the local government of Wallonia, which hopes the Spa-Francorchamps theme park will attract 600.000 tourists annually.
Does all of this sound familiar to you? Approximately 100 kilometres east of Spa-Francochamps is another circuit where the transformation into a theme park had disastrous results. The Nürburgring faced the threat of insolvency, but was saved when the state government of Rheinland-Palatinate stepped in with a bailout. Undoubtedly their Belgium counterparts are well aware of this, so it will be interesting to see what the future will hold for Spa-Francochamps.
[Via HLN.be]
Wow this is something new that no one has done before. I'm surprised that no one else has thought of it already.
Because the nonsense at the Nurburgring taught people nothing, right?