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Adventure Park Sues Virginia Beach Over Competing Holiday Light Show

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The owner of Adventure Park filed a lawsuit against Virginia Beach, the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center Foundation, and IMGoing, the city’s entertainment contractor. The suit contends that the city’s new Holiday Trail of Lights will compete with Adventure Park’s planned nighttime holiday light show on the aquarium grounds. Adventure Park is seeking to stop the light show from starting on November 20 and is demanding damages totaling up to $21 million across the defendants.

From dailypress.com

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The lawsuit centers on claims that the Holiday Trail of Lights breaches a noncompete clause in a contract between Adventure Park and the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center Foundation. Adventure Park also claims that the city damaged its business by investing public funds into a competing attraction.

From dailypress.com

Who's involved

  • Adventure ParkOwner of Adventure Park, which is suing the city and the foundation.
  • Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science CenterLocation where Adventure Park is situated and where the competing light show is planned.
  • Virginia BeachCity whose public funds were used for the competing Holiday Trail of Lights.
  • Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center FoundationFoundation that is named in the lawsuit, with claims of a breached noncompete clause.

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