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If you don’t win the lottery this weekend, you still have a chance at $1,000 for renaming the “Planet Oasis” entertainment complex planned for Delaware. But you’ll have to hurry. Blue Horseshoe Ventures, headed by Tony Sekulovski, said Thursday it will end the contest to rename the venue on Oct. 31, two months earlier than originally planned.
“We were excited to see that, within days of announcing the contest, we’d already received hundreds of entries,” said Blue Horseshoe spokesman Ryan Stubenrauch in a statement. He said the developer “moved up the date of the contest ... to have enough time to consider all of the entries, select a winner and move forward with the next steps in the journey.”
Since it was announced in June, the 350-acre project at U.S. Route 36/state Route 37 and Interstate 71 has been greeted with a mix of excitement, skepticism and resistance.
Developers said they plan to break ground by the end of the year for the first phase of what eventually will be a $2 billion sports and entertainment complex including an outdoor sports park, a saltwater lake surrounded by hotels and The site of the $2 billion Planet Oasis sports complex planned for Delaware County next to the Tanger Outlet mall on the east side of Interstate 71. an indoor complex featuring everything from movies, video games and laser tag to skydiving.
Developer David Glimcher, who formerly worked for his family’s Glimcher Realty Trust, which built Polaris Fashion Place mall, announced the project and served as its public face. But last week, Sekulovski announced that he and Glimcher had parted ways after discussions about Glimcher “becoming one of the owners of the development group” failed.
Glimcher countered that he is continuing on his own to pursue Planet Oasis as well as another project announced by Blue Horseshoe, a mixed-use development on Hamilton Road in Gahanna.
On Thursday, the city of Gahanna said it had moved back a public hearing on the zoning application for the Hamilton Road project to Nov. 7. The project originally was scheduled for a public hearing on Oct. 10, the day after the split between the developers was aired; it was postponed several hours before the meeting was to take place.
Those interested in the contest can visit BlueHorseshoeContest.com.