Common Parks & Resorts to open theme park in Frisco, Texas designed for younger children

FRISCO, Texas — Common Parks & Resorts is bringing a theme park to Texas that can concentrate on entertaining younger youngsters, officers introduced Wednesday.

The “one-of-a-kind” park within the Dallas suburb of Frisco will embody points of interest, interactive reveals and alternatives for meet-and-greets with characters, the corporate mentioned in a information launch.

It’s anticipated to be a few quarter of the scale of the corporate’s massive Orlando theme parks, in line with Web page Thompson, the corporate’s president of latest ventures.

“Though it could be smaller by way of acreage than our different parks, the standard of it, the extent, worthy of the Common identify,” Thompson mentioned throughout a information convention in Frisco.

Common Parks & Resorts lately bought 97 acres, the place the park and a 300-room resort might be situated, officers mentioned.

Additionally on Wednesday, the corporate introduced a brand new everlasting leisure expertise in Las Vegas that can “carry to life Common’s huge library of traditional horror movies and right this moment’s most terrifying tales,” in line with a information launch from the corporate.

The corporate mentioned that is the primary time it has created “a everlasting horror expertise past its theme parks.” The expertise will occupy a 110,000-square foot house. It will likely be the anchor tenant in a brand new 20-acre enlargement of town’s AREA15 leisure district, which opened to the general public in 2020.

The corporate did not give a timetable for when the initiatives might be accomplished.

Common Parks & Resorts, a part of Comcast NBCUniversal, has theme parks around the globe, together with Common Studios Hollywood and Common Orlando Resort within the U.S. In 2021, the corporate opened a theme park in Beijing, turning into the corporate’s fifth park worldwide. There are additionally parks in Japan and Singapore.