The Enterprise Project

[Jeff T]

Came upon this website:

https://theenterpriseproject.org/

Very intriguing.

Here are some of the tenets listed on the site:

Goal:
To build a new sustainable community and a Star Trek Theme Park of which the centerpiece of the park will be the U.S.S. Enterprise.
This Enterprise will be a full-scale replica that would include a fully functional saucer section.
The saucer section would provide the opportunity for crew and visitors to live and work aboard the ship.
The ship and shuttlecraft, will be Living Monuments able to take visitors on a virtual space and educational adventure across the galaxy. 
Imagine living in a community where the air is fresh, nature blooms all around you, it's safe, even after midnight and everything you want and need is right there.
 
Our Dream
To build a new sustainable community and a Star Trek Theme Park of which the centerpiece of the park will be the U.S.S. Enterprise.
This Enterprise will be a full-scale replica that would include a fully functional saucer section.
The saucer section would provide the opportunity for crew and visitors to live and work aboard the ship.
The ship and shuttlecraft, will be Living Monuments able to take visitors on a virtual space and educational adventure across the galaxy. 
 
Imagine...
Then add the most beautiful people in the universe and the best food and healthcare and you have in a nutshell our hope for this wonderful community.
This will be everything you imagined it could be.
The backdrop is the 23rd century, a time when we've figured it all out.
A time when we have realized that we must live in harmony with nature and each other.
A community where Love will be the law.
A community that is the pinnacle of mans technological ingenuity and imagination.
A totally green and hi-tech community built with the safety and welfare of each and every individual in mind. 
A community that will be an example for communities to follow worldwide

(there's more onsite)

Who's ready to beam aboard?

[Kheren]

Interesting...

Hopefully they will do serious research on similar projects like the Star Wars Hotel (in Vegas if I recall; currently failing miserably) and the Ark Encounter in Kentucky (which is an abysmal failure on all fronts) and avoid both exploiting the public and the government by making it a cash grab on current trends.

Even Disney, the world's foremost theme park giant, is not faring well these days...

Would be great, but this is almost as huge an undertaking as building a real Connie. Let's hope they know what they are doing.

[Sorripto]

Interesting...

Hopefully they will do serious research on similar projects like the Star Wars Hotel (in Vegas if I recall; currently failing miserably) and the Ark Encounter in Kentucky (which is an abysmal failure on all fronts) and avoid both exploiting the public and the government by making it a cash grab on current trends.

Even Disney, the world's foremost theme park giant, is not faring well these days...

Would be great, but this is almost as huge an undertaking as building a real Connie. Let's hope they know what they are doing.

While it is having some tax trouble because of the religious issues, the Ark museum does boast over 800k visitors a year. As for the Disney Star Wars hotel, that is a miserable failure because of greed. The fully immersive Star Wars experience failed to find enough people willing to spend $5,000 for a single weekend. If anything this could end up being like the Star Trek experience in Vegas. The Star Trek experience was very successful, ran for 10 years, and only closed due to rights issues between the production studio, the hotel, and Paramount. I hope something like this succeeds.

[Kheren]

The 800k visitors of Ark Encounter are only for the first year, coming from their own promo team and an abysmal failure compared to the growing millions projected for each year. There is currently litigation ongoing because of failed promises to the city and state. Since day one, it only showed vast empty spaces and rows with handfuls of people in attendance and it's in decline, not picking up. 

As a building with a facade like a boat, it is closer to this Enterprise project than the Star Trek Experience which used already built facilities and indeed was quite a success. My guess is that Star Trek may be more commercially viable than a small zoo of animatronics and religious book store. But as you point out, if greed can kill a Star Wars project way more modest than this Enterprise Project, this one is not without perils to be sure.

Disney and Universal Studios succeeded. Maybe this has that quality of entrepreneurship.