Taxpayers in Bellevue won’t get soaked by the city’s $60 million water park project, according to city leaders who cite market studies predicting success of the giant indoor attraction.
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Swimmers play and refresh themselves in a pool adjacent to an indoor water park in Texas managed by American Resort Management. Bellevue plans to build a water park modeled after this one.
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This photograph of a Texas water park shows what the interior of a water park planned for Bellevue would look like.
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