Paramount coming to Murcia

Paramount coming to Murcia
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By h.b. - Sep 10, 2010 - 7:21 AM
A new theme park is set to create some 20,000 jobs and attract 3 million visitors a year to Murcia

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The Paramount Company has announced an agreement to build a theme park in Murcia through a subsidiary company, Paramount Leasing, PLI.

The executive marketing director of PLI, Darren Kyman, has said that the agreement is to establish a large leisure park associated to Paramount productions, but noting to that the Hollywood company would not be taking part as an investor in the project, although it will have the Paramount brand.

Michael Corcoran, President of Paramount Leasing, said ‘We think that Murcia represents a grand opportunity to bring a Paramount Cinema Park to Europe, and we are eager to work with the Murcia regional government and Santa Monica Financial Services S.A. to develop this exciting project’.

First rumours of the possibility of the project started last February. The park could give work to 20,000, and is expected to attract three million visitors a year, and generate 15,000 new hotel beds. There are reports that areas of Cataluña and Andalucía were also bidding for the project.

Pedro Alberto Cruz, the regional councillor for Culture and Tourism in Murcia, has said that in absolute terms ‘it is the most important project undertaken in the region ever’.

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