I was just thinking about this the other day too.
It's been a solid year since the planning commission approved the initial concept.
http://bransontrilakesnews.com/news_free/article_8cfb144c-bbbf-11e5-a57f-7718816bea27.htmlI still think it's funny how they gave the developers all this BS over the height of it, and made a lot of fuss about the "beauty" of the ozarks, as if they haven't been continuously destroying the entire Branson metro with crappy development every which way.
While they gave "approval" they also laid down a lot of restrictions though. It's possible all those restrictions made the whole thing not worth while or scared off investors. It sounded like they wanted to push the tower to the back of the property so it didn't "stick out", which would also stifle the appeal of being close to the action of the revitalized 76 strip. Otherwise it's just a random tower in the back of some knick-nack store with a drop ride attached. I don't know much about food trucks, but the restrictions the commission put on them also sounded pretty hefty.
Without knowing anything else about the developer, it seemed like a concept that was kind of 50/50 on becoming reality initially anyway. It was a cool idea, but you could tell they were kind of fishing around with stuff like the food truck park to make the whole thing "work". For lack of better words, it just didn't sound like the whole thing held together very well. The drop ride could have been popular, but would that have been enough, and would enough people come for essentially just that?
I'm guessing it comes down to investors not being interested when it was all said and done.
