Like other New York City staples shout the Jets and Giants , the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are moving to New Jersey . They ’re dodging Brooklyn rents , yes , but mostly they ’re going to be part of the brand - spanking - new Nickelodeon Universe composition green , planned for the American Dream mega - shopping center at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford .
Triple Five , the Canadian developer that in 2011 exact over thebeleaguered American Dream project(irony ? ) , has unveiled plans for Nickelodeon Universe , a propose 8.5 - acre Nick - themed wonderland , which when gross would be the largest indoor stem green in the Western Hemisphere . ( IMG Worlds of Adventure in Dubai get to keep on its humankind deed belt . ) In add-on to aTMNT - themed department , it ’ll also have ride base on hit likeBlaze , Monster Machines , andSpongeBob SquarePants . Plus characters , live show , and Nick - themed food for thought . No word for Gen - Xers on whether there ’ll be anything fromDouble Dareor Barth ’s Burgers .
The Mall of America , in Minnesota , has a standardized , albeitsmaller Nickelodeon Universe , in case your yen to mount Reptarmobiles suddenly spiked . Triple Five owns and hightail it that mall , as well as one of the earthly concern ’s only comparable complexes : theWest Edmonton Mall , in Alberta , Canada , wheresome of the amusement drive have , uh , killed people .
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As you ’re waitress for the Nickelodeon Universe to materialize in Jersey , the phrase “ conservative optimism ” is believably overbold to remember . The developers have offered no projected hatchway date , and the American Dream project is n’t slate to spread until mid-2018 . That would be 15 years after the project first broke priming coat in 2003 . expression completely break off earlier this yr before Triple Five tread in with $ 2.65 billion in financing that included$1.15 billion in public bonds . No word yet on whether Jersey residents will get discount , to see at first hand their tax dollar bill at work .
But if it does come together , it ’ll be an perfectly derisory complex . Nickelodeon Universe will join 450 retail and food outlets , North America ’s largest indoor weewee park , an indoor snow park , a 1,500 - hindquarters perform arts locale , a 285 foot observation bike , a 70,000sqft Sea Life Aquarium & Lego Discovery Center , an NHL - size ice skating rink , and an 18 - hole miniature golf course in the building complex . All of this will give East Rutherford a somewhat valid call to call itself “ the Dubai of New Jersey . ” Which , if you think about it , seems a completely logical place for SpongeBob to upgrade that pineapple under the ocean .
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