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Plans to honor late pop icon Michael Jackson and his family's Gary roots have expanded to possibly include a golf course and an amusement park with characteristics of Jackson's Neverland Ranch and the former Riverview Park amusement park in Chicago.The latest addition to plans that already include a Jackson family museum, a performing arts center and a 300-room hotel is slated to be built on about 100 acres of city-owned vacant land along I-94, said Odie Anderson, who is president of the project.
The museum, performing arts center and hotel likely will be built on 10 acres of city-owned land downtown, Anderson said.
"Everything is in the planning stages at this point, but we're moving on a fast track and we're looking forward to actually breaking ground sometime in 2010," Anderson said.
The project likely will be built in phases, with the museum, arts center and hotel first, followed by the golf course and theme park.
Private donors would foot most of the bill, but Anderson said he's looking to Gary for tax incentives. By Kristen Schorsch / Chicago Tribune
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