Prospect. $500 million to local economy

Premier, Barry O'Farrell, who is also the Minister for Western Sydney, was on site as the first sods were turned for the construction of the $115 million water theme park, Wet'n'Wild Sydney, at Prospect, due to open at the end of 2013. ''This development alone will bring 300 jobs to this part of Sydney: 300 construction jobs … then 300 jobs at the theme park. It will also attract an estimated 900,000 visitors a year. Almost 20 per cent of those will come from overseas and interstate, and that's great news for hotels, that's great news for restaurants, for those people who run businesses in and around western Sydney,'' he said. Village Roadshow said the park would contribute $500 million in economic to the local community.

Prospect. $80 million theme park

Premier Kristina Keneally has unveiled plans for an $80 million Wet’n’Wild theme park, which would create some 300 jobs, at Prospect, on a 25-hectare site off the M4 and M7 motorways. A DA will be lodged after a 50-year lease was struck between the NSW government and Village Roadshow, which expects the park to be completed in the summer of 2013-14 and could attract 900,000 visitors annually.