Dale Earnhardt Jr. Speedway Site Picked
The city of Prichard was declared the winner Friday when investors chose 3,000 acres along Alabama 158 off Interstate 65 -- about 90 percent of it in Prichard -- as the future home to a $600 million motorsports park and entertainment complex.
Investors in Alabama Motorsports Park, A Dale Earnhardt Jr. Speedway, plan to start construction next fall on four racetracks and an entertainment park with races to start in the first quarter of 2010, according to Bill Futterer of PSE-3, a Raleigh, N.C., marketing firm working on the project.
The investors had considered two other sites: 2,000 acres along Interstate 10 near Loxley and 2,000 acres near Summerdale. Loxley officials said they didn't want the racetrack citing the traffic congestion and noise.
Motorsports park investors include NASCAR Nextel Cup driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.; his brother, Kerry Earnhardt, and sister Kelley Earnhardt Elledge. Dow said the Earnhardts were happy with the Mobile County site.
The Earnhardts will help design the seven-tenths-mile, lighted oval track in the complex. There also will be a three-eighths-mile dirt track; a 3½-mile road course; and a quarter-mile drag strip.(AL.com)
Kat says "Take THAT Theresa".
The city of Prichard was declared the winner Friday when investors chose 3,000 acres along Alabama 158 off Interstate 65 -- about 90 percent of it in Prichard -- as the future home to a $600 million motorsports park and entertainment complex.
Investors in Alabama Motorsports Park, A Dale Earnhardt Jr. Speedway, plan to start construction next fall on four racetracks and an entertainment park with races to start in the first quarter of 2010, according to Bill Futterer of PSE-3, a Raleigh, N.C., marketing firm working on the project.
The investors had considered two other sites: 2,000 acres along Interstate 10 near Loxley and 2,000 acres near Summerdale. Loxley officials said they didn't want the racetrack citing the traffic congestion and noise.
Motorsports park investors include NASCAR Nextel Cup driver Dale Earnhardt Jr.; his brother, Kerry Earnhardt, and sister Kelley Earnhardt Elledge. Dow said the Earnhardts were happy with the Mobile County site.
The Earnhardts will help design the seven-tenths-mile, lighted oval track in the complex. There also will be a three-eighths-mile dirt track; a 3½-mile road course; and a quarter-mile drag strip.(AL.com)
Kat says "Take THAT Theresa".
