{"id":4791,"date":"2009-03-11T05:25:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T13:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4791"},"modified":"2009-03-11T08:36:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T16:36:17","slug":"council-votes-yes-on-legoland-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4791","title":{"rendered":"Council Votes Yes On Legoland Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/legoland-logo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/legoland-logo.jpg','popup','width=1521,height=604,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/legoland-logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"79\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Legoland Logo\" \/><\/a>Last night, the Carlsbad City Council unanimous voted to allow <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legoland.com\/california\" target=\"_blank\">Legoland<\/a><\/strong> to &#8220;change a planning document that guides development of the region&#8221; giving the company permission  to proceed with plans to build a 250-room hotel, with a  14,383-square-foot restaurant, and a 11,051-square-foot retail space.<\/p>\n<p>For good measure Councilman <strong>Mark Packer<\/strong> even tossed in the idea of changing the name of Cannon Road in a way that would &#8220;better publicize&#8221; the park, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2009\/03\/10\/news\/coastal\/carlsbad\/z7b36c0a5123d438f88257576001b41a7.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The park&#8217;s recently appointed general manager, <strong>Peter Ronchetti<\/strong>, told the council that he has no doubt the place will eventually be a success. &#8220;We are highly confident that a Lego hotel will be very popular among our visitors,&#8221; he said. . . Plans call for the hotel to have themed rooms that celebrate specific park rides and attractions, so visitors will be &#8220;immersed in Legoland around the clock,&#8221; Ronchetti said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right. It&#8217;s like Legoland visitors won&#8217;t ever have to leave the property. Interestingly, back in the mid 90s when <strong>Legoland<\/strong> was courting the City of Carlsbad the company promoted the idea that the park would bring money to <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> via park visitors. These visitors, they said, would need to eat somewhere, sleep somewhere, and shop somewhere and that somewhere would be Carlsbad. Now, it appears that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merlinentertainments.biz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Merlin Entertainment<\/a><\/strong>, the park&#8217;s owners, would rather keep all those visitor dollars to themselves with their own hotel, shops, and restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>And, come to think of it, if changing Cannon Road&#8217;s name to Legoland Drive is good, wouldn&#8217;t changing the city of Carlsbad&#8217;s name to Legoland, California be great? The logos are already done. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2009\/03\/10\/news\/coastal\/carlsbad\/z7b36c0a5123d438f88257576001b41a7.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, the Carlsbad City Council unanimous voted to allow Legoland to &#8220;change a planning document that guides development of the region&#8221; giving the company permission to proceed with plans to build a 250-room hotel, with a 14,383-square-foot restaurant, and a 11,051-square-foot retail space. For good measure Councilman Mark Packer even tossed in the idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4791"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4796,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791\/revisions\/4796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}