Ark Work Could Start Soon
A Cincinnati Enquirer Article
This is how the article begins in the Saturday, June 11, 2011 Enquirer:
Groundbreaking for the $172 million Ark Encounter project could be as early as August, now that tax rebates for the attraction have been greenlighted.
The approval of incentives virtually assures the project will be built on the Grant County site identified by developers at a December press conference in Frankfort.
‘This was the site that we really liked and everything was predicated on getting this approval,’ said Mike Zovath, senior vice president for Answers in Genesis and project manager for Ark Encounter LLC.
‘Getting the approval means we can move forward now and don’t have to start over looking at a massive plan for another site. The project would have gone on either way; we would have just had to start looking somewhere else.’
The Ark Encounter is a partnership between Ark Encounter LLC, a for-profit company, and Answers in Genesis, the nonprofit organization that built the Creation Museum in Petersburg…”