The 1st indoor ski and snowboard park in the Western Hemisphere set to open 3/1/19

[ski diva]

I know one doesn't always equate skiing with New Jersey, but this is interesting. From UnofficialNetworks.com:

The first indoor ski and snowboard park in the Western Hemisphere is set to open on March 1, 2019. The complex known as Big SNOW America at American Dream New Jersey has been under construction for more than a decade.

Standing 12-stories tall and spanning more than 180,000 square-feet, Big SNOW America will offer year-round skiing, snowboarding and snow tubing, alongside indoor snow play and event space.

“Because our center will stay at a consistent temperature and we have the ability to control the humidity of the air, snow quality within the center will be very good,” Hugh Reynolds, VP of marketing and sales for SNOW Operating, told New Jersey Family.

 

[marzNC]

A quibble, but it's not quite accurate to imply that Big SNOW has been under construction for ten years. What's been going on for that long is the attempt to create a mega-mall at Meadowlands. American Dream Meadowlands is being built by the Canadian company that built, owns, and operates the Mall of American and the mega-mall in Edmonton. The local family news outlet is pretty happy that a real opening date seems to be possible in 2019.