Isle of Wait

Manhattan's West Side stadium is dead, Ground Zero is in shambles. It must be time to take on Governors Island.

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October 21, 2005, 5:00 AM PDT

After a few false starts, a clearer picture is beginning to emerge of what a developed Governors Island might one day look like...

...GIPEC laid out numerous possibilities for a full buildout, giving each a generic label, a few of which seemed to take their cues simultaneously from reality television and management-speak. The first of these was 'Destination Island,' built around large-scale indoor and outdoor entertainment uses, Berridge said.

Possible models are the Eden Project, in Cornwall, U.K.; Ontario Place, in Toronto: Futuroscope in central France; and Cirque de Soleil, in Orlando and Santa Monica."

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Friday, October 21, 2005 in The Slatin Report

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