Valparaiso based water-park developer Splash Universe hopes to put an indoor water park near a Cabela's store being built in Hammond.
Splash Universe creator Jerald Good said he has been in talks with Nebraska-based Cabela's about a water park near the Hammond store.
"We're working on it as we speak," said Good, owner of Splash Universe parent Focus Hospitality Services.
A specific location could not be learned Tuesday.
The company is working on issues tied to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the Hammond Cabela's location near the Little Calumet River, Good said.
The 165,000-square-foot Cabela's, being built on about one-third of a 100-acre site off of Interstate 94 at Indianapolis Boulevard, is expected to open in October.
Cabela's, which retails hunting, fishing and camping goods in stores filled with life-like animals and fish in faux outdoor settings, has teamed with Focus Hospitality Services at its Dundee, Mich., location and plans to team with the company at a store it plans to build in Greenwood, Ind.
The Greenwood Cabela's, on 21 acres along Interstate 65, could open by fall of 2008, if negotiations are concluded successfully, the company said in a prepared release Monday.
Focus Development Services has plans to build a hotel and water park on five acres next to the Cabela's store, the company press release said.
Good, a native of Kouts who started in business selling homes in Porter County, said his company built a relationship with Cabela's over five years, beginning with the Dundee, Mich. store.
At the time, Good's company operated a hotel near Dundee, and Good heard Cabela's was looking for a hotel.
"I pestered them until they came over and looked at it," he said. "It was the start of a great relationship."
Focus Hospitality Services, which employes about 30 people in its Valparaiso office on Morthland Drive, plans to separately licence its Splash Universe brand in 2008.
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