Proposed $40M western theme park could energize Deadwood and Black Hills economy

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5. So is this any better than

Disney Williamsburg. Isn't it a "commercial blitzkrieg".

Opposition & Project Abandonment
Public support, especially from the historian community, was mixed. Historian David McCullough described it as a "commercial blitzkrieg"[7] while some 3,000 protestors staged a march against the park in mid-September 1994.[8] By the time Disney withdrew the project in 1994, the New York Times could report that Disney "made it clear in a statement that the company had bowed to a torrent of criticism, in part out of a fear that opposition could delay the project."[3] Ironically, the land slated for the proposed park has instead become tens of thousands of single and multi-family homesites in the Dominion Valley and Piedmont housing developments.