KISSIMMEE, Fla. – Plans to bring a $309 million resort near Kissimmee that would include a 14-story ski and snowboard mountain, an indoor/outdoor skateboard park and a snowball fight arena have been put on hold.
Xero Gravity Action Sports said earlier this year that it planned to build the Action Sports & Entertainment Resort near the intersection of U.S. Highway 192 and State Road 535 in Osceola County, about 4 miles east of Celebration.
The Orlando Sentinel reported Thursday that the project hinged on a deal for the group to purchase land in the area, but the deal fell through. The group, which said in February that the project would create 1,000 jobs, said it's now looking at other potential sites, in and out of the area.
The company said in February that the resort will also include nine snow-tubing lanes, a surfing and boogie boarding area, a USA BMX-sanctioned race track, two skydiving pods, an indoor dodgeball trampoline arena, a rapid river, rock climbing, a zip line, two waterslides, a rope challenge and more.
Other amenities include a 250-room Hyatt-branded hotel with a rooftop pool and bar, a 2,000 seat amphitheater, swim-up bar and grotto, swimming pools, cabanas, day spa, retail facilities, sports training facility, multiple restaurants and sports bars, and the International Action Sports Hall of Fame.
It was scheduled to open in early 2018.