Xanadu Ski Slope in NJ

oh it's epic! they have a full park set up and snow is sick. wait til you go to the mall afterwards so many stores.
 
well. first it would probably help if it wasn't still undergoing construction, or not undergoing construction because i heard they went bankrupt. but yeah, i heard all indoor slopes have powder.
 
I don't know where it is exactly but every time I drive into the city I see the building. You can miss it if you drive in the way I go, its basically a huge building that slopes down. If I remember correctly it is also brightly colored.
 
Yea the opening date has just been pushed back time and time again throughout the last couple years. Ive driven buy it a couple times in the last few months and it looks like its just sitting there, ive yet to see real construction taking place in about a year.

I wouldn't be surprised if the deadline gets pushed back even further, although i do know they definitely want it done before the superbowl in 2014 because it is right next door to giants stadium.
 
hypehypehype

id literally give my left nut for this place to be opened though. im at school in the bronx and i work on wall street so id def be a season pass holder
 
I can't say new jersey any more without saying it like fred armisen doing governor patterson.

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i hurd they found some type of waste (may have been nuclear not sure) like a year back. but i haven't hurd any things since then.
 
and cabellas indoor lake under the ski ramp? big dreams had me stoked. oh well, its worthy of being blown up now. pics never happened.
 
i would loveeee for this place to open

but all i see the opening date being pushed back and back.

 
Ugliest Building in New Jersey Getting a Makeover and a Dome

Wednesday, May 4, 2011, by Joey Arak

The Meadowlands' stalled Xanadu mall/entertainment complex/indoor ski slope/boondoggle has been called "the ugliest damn building in New Jersey," and that was by the governor of New Jersey! So yeah, the place is a barrel of laughs, except that it has already cost New Jersey taxpayers $1 billion in financing, tax breaks and highway improvements. Two developers later, New Jersey has just unveiled the latest plan to complete the complex. Triple Five, which runs the Mall of America, is taking over, and Xanadu will be known as American Dream@Meadowlands when it opens in 2013, maybe. The original design was by the esteemed Rockwell Group, but it got bastardized along the way. Plans now call for a pale blue skin to replace the multicolored mess that Xanadu has become. Oh, and check out what's going on inside:

Water slides!!! >>

Triple Five revealed on Tuesday that it planned to spend $1.5 billion or more. It said it would expand the project to about 3 million square feet, from 2.2 million, by adding a water park and an amusement park, both under a climate-controlled, glass-and-steel dome alongside the New Jersey Turnpike. The firm has not yet acquired the land needed for that expansion.

New features will also be added to the main structure, including an ice-skating rink and possibly a rooftop outdoor movie theater, Triple Five said.

Sounds...plausible? Triple Five expects Xanadu American Dream@Meadowlands to outdraw the Mall of America, and it has a shot: If it ever gets finished, every spoiled brat in the tri-state area is going to be demanding a birthday blowout there. The Times has photos of the complex's unfinished interior, and it looks just as creepy as you'd assume a massive unfinished empty mall would. Click through for those.

· Developers and Christie Detail a Plan for Xanadu [NYT]

 
Ugliest Building in New Jersey Getting a Makeover and a Dome

Wednesday, May 4, 2011, by Joey Arak

The Meadowlands' stalled Xanadu mall/entertainment complex/indoor ski slope/boondoggle has been called "the ugliest damn building in New Jersey," and that was by the governor of New Jersey! So yeah, the place is a barrel of laughs, except that it has already cost New Jersey taxpayers $1 billion in financing, tax breaks and highway improvements. Two developers later, New Jersey has just unveiled the latest plan to complete the complex. Triple Five, which runs the Mall of America, is taking over, and Xanadu will be known as American Dream@Meadowlands when it opens in 2013, maybe. The original design was by the esteemed Rockwell Group, but it got bastardized along the way. Plans now call for a pale blue skin to replace the multicolored mess that Xanadu has become. Oh, and check out what's going on inside:

Water slides!!! >>

Triple Five revealed on Tuesday that it planned to spend $1.5 billion or more. It said it would expand the project to about 3 million square feet, from 2.2 million, by adding a water park and an amusement park, both under a climate-controlled, glass-and-steel dome alongside the New Jersey Turnpike. The firm has not yet acquired the land needed for that expansion.

New features will also be added to the main structure, including an ice-skating rink and possibly a rooftop outdoor movie theater, Triple Five said.

Sounds...plausible? Triple Five expects Xanadu American Dream@Meadowlands to outdraw the Mall of America, and it has a shot: If it ever gets finished, every spoiled brat in the tri-state area is going to be demanding a birthday blowout there. The Times has photos of the complex's unfinished interior, and it looks just as creepy as you'd assume a massive unfinished empty mall would. Click through for those.

· Developers and Christie Detail a Plan for Xanadu [NYT]

 
East Rutherford. Right off the turnpike. I was there over the weekend for bamboozle and its just chilling there. Kind of ugly actually and they've completely stopped working on it
 
I remember driving past it every summer for the past four years and thinking, "I can't wait till that opens next year!"
 
I was just thinking about this place. I was so pumped about it like 3 years ago when I first heard about it. Figured maybe they made some progress in getting it open. Guess not. I would definitely go this summer.
 
Its about time, project has been so fucked up its ridiculous. They did kinda get screwed by the recession, but still, it should have been built better. They should have started with the office buildings and got some revenue going before building massive parking garages and the ski slope. The idea that this was going to be a massive mall just completely failed. Indoor amusement park/water park makes a lot of sense because its near the city and theres nothing like that nearby (Cony Island?) but thats summer only. Anyway if they can hype it up enough I think vacationers to the city can get pulled for the day to visit the place if its legit. Also theres no tax on clothing in NJ which is how we get a ton of New Yorkers to come to NJ, I'm sure retail clothing stores would do well there also.
 
the roof collapsed on the ski slope this winter with all the snow we got.... shit has a long way to go
 
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