Legoland Florida files plans for new 150-room hotel
By Veronica Brezina-Smith
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Published: Aug 20, 2018

The Lego lovers' paradise is adding another hotel at the Legoland Florida Resort.

Harris Civil Engineers is proposing to build a new five-story, 150-room hotel in addition to an existing hotel at the Legoland Florida Resort.

Plans for the Winter Haven-based theme park to have another hotel - referred to as Hotel 2 - appeared in Southwest Florida Water Management District permits, where the engineers are seeking approval for an environmental resource permit and wrote:

"Modification to an existing stormwater piping system to serve a 150-room addition to the current hotel. The existing hotel was a previously permitted project in which the stormwater management system was designed for future development."

Plans for the additional hotel alongside the existing five-story, 152-room hotel were filed under the project name "ARK" earlier this month.

Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. Inc., TLC Engineering for Architecture Inc. and Stantec Architecture Inc. are on the development team for the project.

Hotel 2 will be constructed over an existing parking lot, south of Hotel 1, the documents showed.

The site plans reveal a pool, massive pool deck, cabanas and a restaurant on 2.3 acres for the 100,188-square-foot hotel.

The additional hotel may help boost Legoland Florida owner Merlin Entertainments Plc.'s (LON: MERL) portfolio and would encourage more visitors especially as the theme park is gearing up for the new attraction in the park, based on "The Lego Movie" franchise.