Yes, owner Rob Ell sold the 18-acre cartoon dinosaur theme park east of Chilliwack, B.C., to developer Tri-R Development Group last year in a multimillion-dollar transaction. Tri-R took possession of the park at the end of September and plans to build an RV park.
But Ell plans to reopen a Dinotown theme park in either Burnaby or Surrey within the next year. He then wants to franchise his brand worldwide. "We're going to take this thing global," Ell said after a weekend when he had three times the number of customers as usual.
"We're looking for area developers all over the world. We're looking at China, India and the Philippines. We're in discussions with people in those countries already."u
- Glen Korstrom/BIV
from Western Investor, October 2010
