![]() In 2021, Joshuah Wallack revealed that Wallack Holdings had signed a licensing deal with Lionsgate Entertainment to open Skyplex as a Lionsgate Entertainment World resort, but that the project had lost its financing in early 2020 as theme parks in Florida were being forced to closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The project was later removed from Mango's Tropical Cafe's website in June 2019. In January 2019, it was announced that the project had been scaled back to US$250,000,000 and would only take up a portion of the planned 14-acre (57,000 m 2) site, but that the size of the tower and 2020 opening date would remain unchanged. Portions of the roller coaster's track had been completed by Intamin and were in storage by April 2017, but the start of construction in Orlando was on hold pending the approval of permits. Universal's main issues with the project were that the Skyscraper might ruin the sight lines from their parks (specifically The Wizarding World of Harry Potter), and that Universal itself was not permitted to build anything over 200 feet (61 m). The project was lobbied against by Save Our Orange County Community, a group backed primarily by Universal Orlando. On December 1, 2015, the Orange County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the project's rezoning. In 2015, Wallack Holdings LLC spent US$50,000,000 to develop a retail complex, a parking garage, and a Mango's Tropical Cafe on the southwest corner of the same intersection as Skyplex. In May 2014, a website seeking investors was published. The complex was designed by Helman Hurley Charvat Peacock/Architects Inc. After several successful land negotiations conducted under the name WF IDrive Realty, development of Skyplex and the roller coaster began. The project began in 2012 with a planned budget of US$500,000,000. On January 30, 2023, WPC (Winter Park Construction) confirmed that the project would not be moving forward. ![]() However, on December 21 2022, US Thrill Rides and Polercoaster, LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. As of 2023, construction on the project did not begin. ![]() The project was once again delayed to 2019, until the final delay to 2020. The complex was originally planned to open first in 2016. In January 2019 the project was expected to cost US$250,000,000 and include space for a future hotel. Plans for the complex include a 570-foot (170 m) tower which would’ve featured the world's tallest roller coaster, Skyscraper, and the world's largest Perkins Restaurant and Bakery. Skyplex was a proposed and planned entertainment complex, It was to be located on a 14-acre (5.7 ha) lot at the northeast corner of Sand Lake Road and International Drive in Orlando, Florida. ![]() Proposed entertainment complex in Orlando, Florida ![]()
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