April 14, 2006 |
Utopia Proposal Faces Vote Next Week
Katie Curnutte, Reporter
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| New York-based Utopia Studios hopes to build a development that would include movie studios, theme parks, a performing arts college and hotels on the site of the former Norwich Hospital. The next step for the plan is an advisory committee vote next Wednesday. |
By Katie Curnutte
Its proponents want to see more jobs and a reduction in taxes, and its naysayers believe it will never happen. But next week the Utopia Studios project in Preston – a $1.6 billion movie studio and theme park – either will be off the table or will be one step closer to reality when an advisory board votes on whether to send the development agreement to referendum.
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